When Oscar Charles Miller was born on July 31, 1882, in Russia, his father, Benjamin, was 22 and his mother, Rosa, was 20. He married Ida Blanch Adelson on October 17, 1906, in Birmingham, Alabama. He was a respected member of the newspaper community, working for the Birmingham Hearst newspaper (listed as advertising manager). He died on January 25, 1940, in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 57, and was buried there.