The Miller Families of Lyon County, Minnesota

EARLE S. MILLER (1869), of Tracy, was one of the very first of the present residents to visit Lyon county. He first came in 1869, but his permanent residence did not begin until some years later.

Mr. Miller was born in Cook county, Illinois, May 25, 1847. His parents. Charles D. and Mary M. (White) Miller, were born in New York and Vermont, respectively, and both are deceased. Earle attended the schools of Illinois until 1866 and then accompanied.his parents to Winona county, Minnesota, and resided with them until 18 69. That year he came with the Mitchell and Scriven families to Lyon county, remained a short time, and then located in Jackson county, Minnesota.

In that county, a few miles east of the present city of Worthington, Mr. Miller took a homestead claim, on which he resided two years. He then returned to Winona county, bought land, and engaged in farming there until 1876. He again came to Lyon county at that time and the same year took a pre-emption claim in Pipestone county, which he held three years and then sold. He was one of the crew that surveyed the line of railroad from Tracy to Pierre, being thus engaged one year. Mr. Miller bought grain in Tracy two years and has since been engaged in the real estate business there.

Mr. Miller was married in Wabasha county, Minnesota, November 24, 1887, to Jennie Paine. She was born in England October 11, 1857. Mr. Miller is a member of the Masonic lodge of Tracy.

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EDWARD MILLER (1887 > nuts and farms the northeast quarter of section 3, Rock Lake township. He was born in Outagamie county, Wisconsin. July 25, 1866, and is a son of Frederick and Dora (Schroeder) Miller, the former of whom is deceased and the mother being a resident of Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller became Lyon county residents in the nineties and farmer one year, afterward moving to Marshall.

Edward received his education in Wisconsin, where he went to country school until the age of fifteen, after which he worked for his father on the farm until he was twenty-one. Coming to Lyon county in the spring of 1887, he worked on a farm near Marshall one year and the next year, in company with his brother. Will, rented land near Marshall and farmer four years. He then purchased land in Lake Marshall township and farmer four years for himself. Selling his Lyon county property, Edward moved to the northern part of the state and bought land near Brainerd. He and his wife were postmaster and assistant postmaster at Neutral, near Brainerd, three years, and after six years they returned to Marshall, where he worked as teamster two years, after which he resumed farming near the town four years.

In 1906 Mr. Miller moved to the Forbes farm near Lynd and farmer one year. The succeeding four years he spent on the Schroeder farm in Lyons township, and in the fall of 1911 our subject moved to the place where he now resides. Mr. Miller was married November 25, 1889, to Ella Wunderlich, at Watertown, South Dakota. His wife was born August 6, 1867, in Wisconsin, and her parents, Wolf and Emma (Graetz) Wunderlich, were for twenty years residents of Lynd township, Lyon county, later moving to Brainerd, where the father still is living. The Millers are members of the Presbyterian church. They are the parents of seven children, as follows: Fern (Mrs. Wilmar Soul i, of Custer township; Iva, Frances, Elva, Roy, Erna and Eugene.

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CHARLES MILLER (1885), who farms the north half of section 4, Stanley township, has lived in Lyon county since he was a child. He is the son of William and Hulda (Mueller) Miller. The former was born in Wisconsin August 7, 1852, and is now engaged in farming in Lake Marshall township. The mother was born August 16, 1856, and died August 25, 1895.

Charles Miller was born in Wisconsin August 19, 1879. He came to Lyon county with his parents in 1885 and until he was sixteen years of age lived with them and attended school. He was handy with machinery and when only fourteen years of age began to work with engines. Two years later he was granted an engineer's license and became the youngest man in Minnesota to hold such license. During the next ten years he operated engines exclusively. Then he began farming and has been so engaged ever since.

The marriage of our subject to Minnie

Apfel occurred April 6, 1901, at Evansville, Wisconsin. Mrs. Miller's parents, H. Apfel and Fredericka Apfel, reside in Wisconsin. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born the following named five children: Jeanette, Violet, Melvin, Hazel and Hal.

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After mastering his trade Mr. Miller worked as a journeyman painter for several years in that part of the country extending from Toledo, Ohio, and Chicago to the Pacific Coast. He was at Ottumwa, Iowa, three years, and in 1905 he located in Marshall, opened a shop, and has ever since resided in that city. He has decorated and painted the interior of the Methodist church, the Carnegie library, city hall, the M. W. A. building, and a number of residences.

Mr. Miller was married at Montgomery,

Minnesota, October 5, 1898, to Lydia Wolf, a native of the village in which she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have three children: Edna, Evelyn and Matah.

Our subject is a son of Oliver and Kate (Greenfield) Miller, who were pioneers of Nebraska, having settled at Sterling before the coming of the railroad. The father was born in Germany, the mother in New York. There are six sons in the family, as follows: Luther, of Sterling, Nebraska; Harry, of this sketch; Frank, of Ottumwa, Iowa; Lester, of Marshall; Clyde of Adams, Nebraska; Robert, of Lincoln, Nebraska.

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