The Jasper County histories sketch ten separate Miller households, and none of the sketches says that one is related to another, so each is kept apart here. Robert Miller, born in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1821, came from Logan County, Illinois, in 1859 and came to own 520 acres; David Miller died in the county in 1870, and Thomas J. Miller, a North Carolinian, settled his 180-acre farm in the spring of 1867. Aaron Miller and George H. Miller were both born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and both grew up around Monroe, Wisconsin; Aaron became a Carthage builder in 1875, and George bought a Jasper County farm in 1871, but the books never call them brothers. Carthage also drew John W. Miller, a Swiss-born horseshoer who had been held at Castle Thunder prison, and David S. Miller, a painter from Frankfort, Kentucky, while Rev. J. C. Miller came in 1882 to ride the Jasper circuit. In 1901 the Biographical Record added Dr. George W. Miller of Joplin and Joseph C. Miller, who managed the Miller & Company mine on the Eleventh Hour lease. The books record other Millers too, mostly as the mothers and wives of men sketched under other surnames. Every fact below is cited to a public-domain Jasper County history.
Earliest in the record
Robert Millerborn 1821Most recent in our records
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Early settler and retired farmer
ROBERT MILLER, post-office Webb City. Prominent among the retired farmers and early settlers of Jasper county is the subject of this sketch; his birthplace, Shelby county, Ky., and date 1821; son of Abner and Betsy Miller, natives of Yirginia. Our subject was the third of a family ot seven children. When about ten years old he moved to Indiana with his parents, and was reared in Marion county; has a very limited education; at the age of twenty-one moved to Morgan county and resided for five years. Was married to Miss Charity Myers, daughter of John and Jane Myers, who were natives of Tennessee. Mr. Myers was a prominent farmer and preacher. Mrs. Miller was born in east Tennessee, Jan, 20, 1829, and reared in Indiana, and was married Feb. 9, 1845, and in 1849 Mr. Miller moved to Logan county. 111., and engaged in farming and stock-raising until coming to Jasper county. Mo., in 1859. Now has 520 acres, 340 under fence, 200 under cultivation; splendid prospects for mineral; two orchards, fine residence, and fair out-buildings. Mr. Miller has seven children, named John E,, Elizabeth, Russum, Sarah J., James, Thomas J., Nettie, Robert H., and Uceba. Mr.
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Known only from the sketch of her second husband, W. M. D. Snead
Farmer
THOMAS J. MILLER was born in the state of North Carolina, Aug. 19, 1828. He is the son of Louis Miller, who was a native of North Carolina, moved to Indiana in 1832, and was one of the large and successful farmers of Hamilton county. He had eight children, our subject being the fifth child. At eighteen years of age he ran away from home and said one year, then returned and said with his father until twenty-one years of age. He was then married to Miss Eliza Snider, who was born in North Carolina, March 17, 1830, and was reared in Indiana; from which place our subject moved to Iowa and farmer there sixteen years; then moved to Nebraska, and farmer three years; then moved to Newton county, and in the spring of 1867 located on his present farm of 180 acres, which is well improved and well watered; also has forty acres in Newton county. Mr. Miller has eight children, named John W., Rhoda M., Mary, Nancy, Jessie, Franklin, Ida, and Ella.
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Contractor and builder
AARON MILLER, contractor and builder, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1837, and there raised and educated. His father was a farmer, and died about 1863. His mother's maiden name was Lydia Onawalt, who died in 1865. Mr. Miller enlisted from Monroe, Green county, Wisconsin, in the Fifth Wisconsin Light Artillery, serving three years, and a participant at Murfreesboro, Perryville, Kenesaw Mountain, Jonesboro, Atlanta, and below Island No. 10. He was married October 19, 1865, to Lena Diner, who was born in Germany. Their children are Minnie and Frank H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Presbyterian Church. At fifteen years of age he began for himself at Monroe, Wisconsin, serving a four years' apprenticeship with Washington Hill. He went to Chicago in 1872, and became a citizen of Carthage in 1875. His residence is on Macon Street and Garretson Avenue. He has built some of the best store-rooms in town, and gets some of the largest and finest buildings to construct.
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Farmer and stock raiser.
GEORGE H. MILLER, farmer and stock-raiser, post-oflSce Carthage. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Northampton county, April 22, 1840. In 1854 his parents moved to Wisconsin, locating at Monroe, Green county. At the age of nineteen he crossed the plains to California, as an employe, driving a drove of horses. The next year he returned to the Washoe Valley, Nev., where he engaged at farming; he also owned a half interest in a saw-mill. He returned to Wisconsin in 1871, and visited Jasper county the same year and purchased the farm where he now lives. Going back to Nevada he settled up his business there and returned east the following year. He was married at Monroe, Wis., Jan. 8, 1872, to Miss Barbara Deninger, a native of Germany, reared and educated in Wisconsin where her parents reside. They came to their new home in Jasper county and commenced making improvements. Mr. R. Craven owned a half interest in the property until 1882, when Mr. Miller bought him out. The farm now consists of 240 acres, with fine improvements and in a high state of cultivation, good house, barn, orchard, etc. The yards and lawn are beautified and ornamented with trees, shrubs, and flowers, making as tasty and convenient a farm residence as Jasper county can boast. His family consists of two sons and one daughter: Geo. W., born June 1, 1874; Rosa A., born March 5, 1876; and Charles H., born June 12, 1879.
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Horseshoer and stable keeper; Union veteran
JOHN W. MILLER, horseshoer, and proprietor of boarding and feed stable, was born in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, October 17, 1844. At the age of ten he came to America with his father, whose name was Jacob, who was a military instructor in the Swiss array and also had charge of a Swiss garrison. Since coming to America, in 1854, his father has farmer in New York State, Oneida county, where he is still living on a tine, well improved farm. John Miller's mother's maiden name was Magdalene Ecker, who was also born in Switzerland and is still living in New York. The subject of this sketch went to Chicago in 1866, where he worked at his trade. Previous to his coming to Carthage he has lived in Cincinnati, Aurora, Ottawa, and Paola, Kansas, for ten years. He came to Carthage in the spring of 1877. He was married in the fall of 1869 to Miss Mattie D. Starr, who was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1857. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Miller is a member of the Masonic order, Odd Fellows, G. A. R., and Knights of Pythias. John Miller enlisted April 23, 1861, in the Fourteenth N. Y. Yolunteers, Company F, serving two years and three months. He was captured at Malvern Hill and imprisoned at Castle Thunder, Richmond. He was a participant in fourteen important actions, among which were Hanover Court House, Mechanicsville. Gain's Mills, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Charles City, Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Culpeper Court House, South Mountain, and Martinsburg. He devotes his attention exclusively to shoeing horses, using about 6,000 shoes last year, and doing a large and growing business. He also owns a line board and feed stable, boarding horses of the city and having room for sixty horses, besides commodious yards and sheds for wagons. Mr. Miller is an industrious and energetic man and a courteous, obliging gentleman.
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Painter, of the firm of Cox & Miller
DAVID S. MILLER, painter, of the firm of Cox & Miller, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, August 11, 1848. His father, J. D. Miller, was a carpenter by trade, and had also been merchandising, and was postmaster of Waverly, Lafayette county, Missouri, from 1871 to 1881. His father was a native of Kentucky, and his mother, Mildred, tice Haggerty, was also a native of Kentucky. His father removed to Lafayette county, Missouri, when
David was eleven years old. He was married March 5, 1877, to Anna Zook, of Frankfort, Kentucky, born in September, 1856. They have one child, Mary Miller. Mrs. Miller is a member of the M. E. Church (South), and Mr. Miller of the Christian Church. He came to Carthage August 15, 1882, where he enjoys a good business in his profession of painter. He learned his trade in St. Louis in 1864, Their place of business is on South Main Street.
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Methodist Protestant pastor of the Jasper circuit
Physician
GEORGE W. MILLER, M. D.
Engaged in the practice of medicine in Joplin, Dr. Miller has been a resident of the city since 1891. He is a native of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, born in 1845. His great-grandfather removed from Burlington. New Jersey, to Fayette county, his people being of the Quaker sect, and in the latter place occurred the birth of Joseph Miller and Thomas Miller, the grandfather and father of the Doctor. The mother bore the maiden name of Hannah Rammage, and she, too, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Miller pursued his education in the schools of his native county and after completing his literary course took up the study of medicine. He is a graduate of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York City, of the class of 1880 and has pursued post-graduate courses in the New York Polyclinic, where he spent one year. He has also taken several other special courses, thus being particularly well qualified for the discharge of the important duties that devolve upon physicians, in whose hands are the issues of life and death. At length he determined upon seeking his fortune in the west, believing that he would have better business opportunities in a country where competition is not so great as in the older east. Accordingly he came to Missouri and settled in Joplin, where he has made his home continuously for the past ten years. His patronage has constantly increased and he now lias a large and profitable practice. During the greater part of his residence here he has been a member of the board of pension examiners, and he is a member of the Jasper County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
The Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Strauss, a native of Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where her people located in pioneer times. Dr. and Mrs. Miller now have one daughter, Mildred. The Doctor is a Republican in his political views and gives his support to the men and measures of the party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him, as he prefers to devote his energies to his professional duties, his devotion thereto being proverbial. He now has the patronage of many of the best homes in the city and his merit is widely acknowledged.
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Prospector and mine manager
JOSEPH C. MILLER.
Among the men who have developed the mining interests of Jasper county, Missouri, none is better or more favorably known than the well known prospector and miner whose name appears above. Mr. Miller is a native of Macon county, Illinois, a.son of Reason filler, who was a pioneer in that part of the state from Ohio. He came to Jasper county eighteen years ago, and during most of the time that has elapsed since then he has been mining and prospecting on his own account. He helped to open up the Stewart mill and is now operating the Miller & Company mine on the Eleventh Hour lease, formerly the Stewart mine, which is the most famous mine m this district, more than one million dollars having been taken out of it in twelve years. During the past live years it has been under the management of Mr. Miller, who has developed it into a very valuable property.
Mr. Miller was married in Jasper county, Missouri, to Miss Agnes Tyler, a native of the state of Illinois, in 1888. She died in 1898, leaving three children, — Herbert P., Price M. and Edwin T. Mr. Miller is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He takes an intelligent interest in public affairs and is recognized as a public spirited and helpful citizen, who has done his full share for the advancement of every worthy local interest.
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