Azariel Blanchard Miller (5 September 1878 – 13 April 1941) was an American farmer, rancher, and developer credited with founding the city of Fontana, California, in 1913. Miller Park, Miller Avenue, and Fontana A.B. Miller High School are community landmarks named after him.Miller was born in either Redlands, California[1] or Richlands, North Carolina, to Joseph Kempster Miller and Eliza (Blanchard) Miller, he spent his childhood in Washington, D.C. before finishing his schooling in Riverside, California. He also attended one year at Claremont College in Pomona, California.[2]His brother Kempster Blanchard Miller (1870–1933) was an electrical engineer and executive with the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company (1899–1904), and wrote what has been considered the seminal textbook on the telephone technology of the time, "American Telephone Practice."[3]He was also the uncle of Ruth Miller, also known as Ruth Blanchard Miller or Ruth Kempster, a renowned California artist whose works were exhibited at the 1932 Olympics.Upon purchasing 17,000 acres in what was first called Rosena in 1905, Miller used 200 horses, mules, plowsand scrapers to transform the area into citrus fruit orchards, poultry and cattle farms.[4] The town was renamed Fontana in 1913.Miller was President of Fontana Farms (citrus), Fontana Land Company, Fontana Union Water Company (still in operation[5]), Fontana Power Company, B. B. Company, and Miller Livestock Company.[6]He was also founder and first director of the First National Bank of Fontana.Azariel Blanchard Miller died on 13 April 1941 in Fontana, California, at the age of 62.
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“The history of Fontana is the story of a man whom the people called a dreamer, but who never wavered and was true to his dream, until he had won and became known as a dreamer whose dream came true.
It was that man who recognized the vast possibilities of this territory, who recognized the fertility of the soil, the advantages of the climate conditions, the possibility of building up a never-failing water system. It was that man who had the vision to turn this huge waste land to great fruit, poultry, and livestock farm, to make the desert into a garden spot of the Southland.
That man was A.B. Miller, the founder of the Fontana Farms Estate and the founder of the Fontana community. It is not only his genius, his foresight and his marvelous dream that made the Fontana of today (1923), but his great energy and immense knowledge helped him do it. You can imagine that such a task met with every imaginable hardship; it was years of struggles, which required the entire brain, soul, heart, and work, day and night of Fontana’s founder…
A.B. Miller is not only a famous plan maker, not only a wonderful seer, but he is a real human dynamo...
It was his genius, his sincerity, his honesty that caused people from the financial circle down to his last working man to implicitly trust him, a personal trust which capitalized more than $6 million; a trust which gave so many friends to Fontana from every section of the Southland…