Harry Willis Miller

Harry Willis Miller (July 1, 1879 – January 1, 1977) was an American physician, thyroid surgeon and Seventh-day Adventist missionary. Miller was a vegetarian and pioneer in the development of soy milk.

Biography Miller was born in Ludlow Falls, Ohio, on July 1, 1879. He graduated M.D. from the American Medical Missionary College in Battle Creek, in 1902. Miller studied at Rush Medical College and authored an article on blastomycetes in the Journal of Dermatology in 1903. With his wife Maude Thompson Miller, he went to Shanghai in 1903. She died less than two years later from sprue. He specialized in surgery and as a missionary generalist. He served as a leader of the SDA Church in China.

He served as superintendent of the China Mission in Shanghai (1908–1909) and established the China Training Institute in Chouchiakou.

Miller returned to the United States in 1939. He was medical director of Mount Vernon Hospital and established the International Nutrition Laboratory to produce soy products. However, Miller continued to conduct research in at Loma Linda Food factory in La Sierra until his death. Miller died in Riverside, California, on January 1, 1977. He was a pioneer in popularizing soy milk as a satisfactory substitute for animal milk and making it available to feed the poor in areas where there was no cow's milk. He conducted research on vegetarian meat substitutes and proteins. He was influential in bringing soy-based foods to the United States.

Selected publications The Way to Health (1920) Tuberculosis: A Curable Disease (1954)