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Asher Miner, fourth child and eldest son of Seth and Anna (Charlton) Miner, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, March 3, 1778.

He served an apprenticeship in the office of the Gazette and Commercial Advertiser, at New London, Connecticut, and worked one year as a journeyman printer in New York, prior to joining his brother Charles in Wilkes-Barre in 1800. He accepted a position on the Wilkes-Barre Gazette, which suspended publication in less than a year after his connection therewith, and he founded the Luzerne County Federalist, the first number of which was issued January 5, 1801. His brother Charles Miner became his partner in its proprietorship, April 1802, under the firm name of A. & C. Miner, which was dissolved in 1804, by the sale of the whole interest in the enterprise to Charles Miner.

On the sale of the Federalist to his brother, Asher Miner removed to Doylestown, Bucks county, and established there the Pennsylvania Correspondent and Farmers' Advertiser, the first number of which appeared July 7, 1804. It was a paper of strong Federalist leanings, the only newspaper published in the county at that time. It later came to be known as the Bucks County Intelligencer, and is still published at the same place. Its early publication was a struggle against adversity, the first issue being practically given away, but eventually it found favor with the people, and proved a successful enterprise. Mr. Miner was an ambitious publisher; as early as 1806, he announced through the columns of the Correspondent his intention of publishing a monthly magazine, but though he agitated the subject for ten years he never received sufficient encouragement to warrant the publication. In 1816, he again announced his intention to publish a monthly journal to be known as "a monthly literary and agricultural register" under the name of The Olive Branch and received and prepared contributions of a fine literary character for the proposed publication, but the project progressed no farther than the setting apart a page of the Correspondent to these contributions under the name of The Olive Branch, for a considerable period, the publication of a separate journal not receiving sufficient substantial encouragement. He, however, opened a branch office at Newtown, in the same county in 1817, and on May 21, of that year issued the first number of another newspaper The Star of Freedom, established virtually to keep newspaper competition out of the county, and while it answered this purpose, it was not very successful as an individual enterprise, and was abandoned the following year.

Asher Miner was postmaster of Doylestown for many years, keeping the office in his printing establishment, where he also kept for sale books, stationery supplies and a number of other articles of a miscellaneous character which he advertised through the columns of his paper. He was a man of learning and of marked ability in his profession, an upright Christian gentleman, a devout member of the Presbyterian Church, aiding materially in the establishment of the first Presbyterian Church in the town during the first decade of his residence there, and was much admired and respected in the community.

He relinquished the postmastership in 1821, and in 1824 sold out his paper, and joined his brother in the publication of the Village Record, at West Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Charles Miner having been elected to congress in that year. Asher continued to publish and edit the Village Record, in partnership with his brother until 1834, when they sold their joint interest therein and Asher followed his brother to Wilkes-Barre, where he died, March 13, 1841. Asher Miner married, May 19, 1800, Mary Wright, daughter of Thomas Wright of Wilkes-Barre, and his wife Mary Dyer . Mary (Wright) Miner died at West Chester in January, 1830, and Asher married (second) at Wilkes-Barre, May 13, 1835, Mrs. Thomazine (Hance) Boyer. Asher and Mary (Wright) Miner had thirteen children but five of whom survived him, and all but two of whom died comparatively young and unmarried. His eldest child, Anna Maria Miner, married Dr. Abraham Stout.

24 March 1841
Died – On the 3rd ins., at the house of her father, Sarah, daughter of Asher Miner, aged 31 years.
Died – On Saturday evening, March 13, at his residence, near Wilkes-Barre, Asher Miner, aged about sixty years. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut
and after acquiring the knowledge of the printing business in New London, under Gen. Samuel Green, he emigrated to Wyoming as early as 1800. After residing here for several years, he removed to Doylestown, Bucks county, until 1825, when he changed his residence to West-Chester, Chester county. In 1834, he returned again to Wyoming. He was a Deacon of the Presbyterian congregation in this place. (Republican Farmer & Democratic Journal)

March 24, 1841
Obituary
At Wilkes Barre, on the 13th March, Mr. Asher Miner, aged 63 years.
Mr. Miner was a native of Norwich, Conn., and came to Wyoming in 1801. In 1825 he removed to Westchester, Pa. and for many years proprietor of the Village Record. In 1834, he removed again to Wyoming, where he had always expressed a wish to spend his latter days. In his intercourse with his fellow citizens, his mild and pleasing manners, his unaffected simplicity, and sincerity of purpose, gained the confidence and affection of all. In his various relations of a parent, a friend, a brother or a Christian, he exhibited a bright example of the most watchful fidelity, affection and benevolence. His house was the seat of hospitality, and no one could enter his dwelling without perceiving that his family was the code, not only of order and harmony, but of attention and love; always affable and obliging, exceeding social in his feelings, and polite and graceful in his manners, and in all the relations of social and domestic life, as a friend and benefactor, he was a man peculiarly amiable and beloved. His example is our inheritance, and we ought to treasure it up as a rich and precious legacy. But a few days prior to his death, he was called to follow the remains of his daughter to the grave, little conscious that the messenger of death would soon be dispatched to call him to a better land, but although so sudden, it did not find him unprepared. He has gone from among us; the mortal agony has passed, his disembodied spirit has bid adieu to all on earth, and has taken its flight to the region of the skies. B (Spectator - Newspaper Article)