وادزورث
Miller was born on March 9, 1917, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth Chritcherson Miller. He was primarily raised in Wadsworth, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University and Antioch College. He married Margaret Edith Barton, a fellow Antioch student, in 1945. After graduating from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1950, he attended Harvard University, where he was awarded a master's degree in public health in 1956.