Funeral services were held here last Friday for Jules D. Miller, retired executive business manager of the Jewish Exponent and a pioneer in the Anglo-Jewish press of the United States who died March 15 in Houston, Texas. He was 76 and resided in Philadelphia.
Widely known by his associates as “Mr. Exponent,” Miller, at the time of his retirement in 1974, was a veteran of more than a half-century in the newspaper business, 47 years of which had been spent with the Exponent. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Miller broke into the newspaper business with the Pittsburgh Criterion, an independent English language weekly in the 1920s.
In 1928 he was hired as an advertising salesman at the Exponent by Felix N. Gerson, its founder and publisher. He became business manager in 1944, the same year the paper became part of the Federation of Jewish Agencies of Greater Philadelphia, and was named executive business manager in 1973.
Miller was a vice-president of the American Jewish Press Association and was honored by that organization at its convention in 1968. He also was honored by the Exponent and the Federation of Jewish Agencies at the time of his retirement in 1974.
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