The Miller Families of Nodaway County, Missouri

ISAAC MILLER, farmer and stock raiser, section 29, was born on a farm in Monroe County, Indiana, on the 2d of January, 1820, being the second son of Mary M. (Myers) Miller, natives of Wythe County, Virginia. The former was born September 17, 1795, and the latter on the 2d of May, 1802. Isaac spent his boyhood days and received his education in his native state. When at the age of fifteen years he began working at the carpenter trade, farming at times, till 1848, when he moved to Adams County, Illinois, and in 1853, to McDonough County of the same state. In 1868 lie sold out and came to Andrew County, Missouri, and in 1869 purchased a farm consisting of 160 acres of wild land. By his own industry and good management he now has one of the best improved farms in this part of the country. Mr. M. was married on the 19th of February, 1846, to Miss M. J. Berry, a native of Monroe County, Indiana, born July 20, 1827. She was the eldest daughter of William and Patsy A. (Girens) Berry. Her father was born in 1803, in Kentucky, and her mother was born November 14, 1808, in Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are both members of the Christian Church. They have the following children: William M., Addison H., Mary M., J. M. Alvin G., L. C, Effie A. and Jennie D., living and Samuel H., T. M., John M., and Robert W., deceased.

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JAMESON M. MILLER.

This is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a producer of wealth. He simply takes advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine, the refreshing rains, and with God’s help and by virtue of his own skill in handling nature's gifts he creates hay, grain, livestock and vegetables, all of which are absolutely necessities to the inhabitants of the earth.

One of the residents of Hughes township, Nodaway county, who has had the ingenuity and the courage to develop the resources found round about him, thus, gaining a comfortable living for himself and family and providing for “rainy days” ahead, is Jameson M. Miller, who is a native of the Prairie state, having been born in McDonough county, Illinois, February 11, 1855. He is the son of Isaac and Martha J. (Berry) Aliller, both natives of Indiana. After spending a good many years in Illinois, they left McDonough county and came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1868 and settled in Hughes township, where they resumed farming and spent the remainder of their lives. Thirteen children were born to them, of whom Jameson M., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth.

The gentleman whose name heads this brief review came to Nodaway county with his parents when about twelve years of age. and here he grew to manhood, assisted with the work on the place and attended the neighboring schools when not at work. When twenty-one years of age he returned to McDonough county, Illinois, and remained there two years, then returned to this township and devoted his attention to farming here until the fall of 1882, when he again went to McDonough county and remained in the vicinity of his birth for two years more, after which he came back to Hughes township and has resided here continuously ever since. He has devoted his life ex elusively to farming and stock-raising; he is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres which are well improved and well tilled. He settled on the farm where he now lives in February, 1889.

Mr. Miller was married in McDonough county, Illinois, November 1, 1882, to Mary M. Oden eller, who was born and reared in that county, and was the daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth Odenweller. This union has resulted in the birth of three children, Isaac Leonard, Berry G. and Ross. Isaac Leonard married Addie Alkire and lives near his parents: Berry G., who married Minnie Ashport, also lives near the old home. Ross O. is attending school.

Mr. Miller finds time to take considerable interest in public affairs. He is a Republican and he and his wife are active members of the Christian church.

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LEWIS C. MILLER.

Although primarily interested in his own affairs, his large farm claiming the major portion of his attention, Lewis C. Miller, one of Nodaway county’s successful agriculturists, manifests an abiding regard for the advancement and welfare of the community and for any measure or enterprise by which his fellow-men may be benefited. He encourages churches and schools, is a respected of law and order and has no use or sympathy for any calling or business which tends to lower the moral states of the county or degrade the youth of the land.

Mr. Miller is one of the large number of citizens of Nodaway county who were natives of McDonough county, Illinois, his birth having occurred

5 02 there on September 3, 1861. He is the son of Isaac and Martha J. (Berry) Miller, both natives of Indiana, from which state they moved to McDonough county, Illinois, thence to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1868, and settled in Hughes township, where they established a comfortable home, owned a good farm on which they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom Lewis C., of this review, was the eighth in order of birth. He was seven years old when his parents came to Nodaway county and he was reared to manhood in Hughes township and educated in the common schools of the same, and lived there until 1909, successfully engaged in general agriculture and stock raising, which has been his chief life employment.

In December, 1909, Mr. Miller moved into Maryville, where he now resides in an attractive home. He owns the old NT i Her homestead and has excellent farming land in this county to the extent of two hundred and forty acres, all improved land, and as valuable as any in the locality.

Mr. Miller was married in Andrews county, Missouri, on January 5, 1888, to Sophia P. Ingman, who was born in Ohio, on April 22, 1861; she is the daughter of Henry E. and Rebecca (Brandt) Ingman, both natives of Fairfield county, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of three children, namely: Fayetta is the wife of Guy W. Williams, who lives on Mr. Miller's farm in Hughes township; Frank P. and Valentine Floyd.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are active members of the Christian church and, politically, Mr. Miller is a Democrat.

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A. C. MILLER, section 12, post office Hopkins, is a successful and cultured farmer of this county, and was born in Hancock County, Indiana, February 3, 1824. He was there reared to manhood, and received the advantages of a good education. He has always been engaged in the occupation he now so-successfully follows, and, in 1845, he immigrated west, and settled in Andrew County, Missouri, where he resided till 1868, when he removed to this county, locating where he now resides. He has a fine farm of 250 acres, which is second to none in the county, 150 acres of which are under cultivation. He has one of the finest residences in the county, situated on a splendid site, and shows good judgment in its arrangements throughout. His improvements on his place are very much above the average. Mr. Miller was married February 8, 1847, to Miss Charlotte Tyna, an estimable lady, a native of Indiana. They have had a" family consisting of: Mary A., Joseph A., Susanna, Karnes, Isabelle, Henry M., Floda, Tyna and Elbert. Mr. M. is a member of Xenia Lodge, No. 50, A. F. and A. M. of Hopkins. He is school director of his district. They are members of the M. E. Church.

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GEORGE S. MILLER.

One of the honored public servants in Nodaway county is George S. Miller, who has forged his way to the front by a strong inherent force and well directed intelligence and judgment and he stands today among the enterprising, public spirited men of his locality. He keeps fully in touch with means and measures for the advancement of Maryville and for the welfare of the populace, being mindful of the duties he owes to the community, discharging the same as becomes a man of character and influence, and as a citizen he is fully abreast of the times, having decided opinions and the courage of his convictions on all the leading questions of the day. He has made a very commendable record as county engineer, which responsible position he is at this writing holding.

Mr. Miller was born on August 3, 1856, in DeKalb county, Indiana. He is the son of Joseph Miller, one of the very earliest settlers of northern Indiana, having first visited that country as a government deputy surveyor several years before any permanent settlement was made, when the cabin of the French fur trade and the wigwam of the red man were still to be found. Joseph Miller married Rebecca Moody, daughter of Daniel Moody, a German who came to DeKalb county with the first pioneers. The parents of George S. Miller were married in 1832, and they reared a family of twelve children, of whom George S. was the youngest in order of birth. The father and his sons developed a good farm from the wilderness and became well established.

George S. Miller came with his father to Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1866, a lad ten years old, and he grew to manhood on a farm near Guilford, and during the winter months attended the neighboring schools. How ever, his father being hard pressed to make a living for his large family while they were growing up, and also owing to the fact that educational facilities were limited, the subject did not receive a very extended text-book train ing, consequently he has been compelled to make up for it in home study. He became quite proficient in mathematics, in the study of which his father encouraged him, and from the fact that the elder Miller was a civil engineer he was quite capable of initiating his son into the mysteries of higher mate mates. The fact that the father also held the office of county surveyor also gave the young man practice along with “theory.”

In 1887 George S. Miller moved to Wichita county, Kansas, and in the fall of 1888 he was elected to the office of county surveyor and commissioner of roads and bridges, which he held for eight years in a manner that won the confidence and approval of all concerned. I11 March, 1902. he was married to Mary Flanagan, of Nodaway county, her father having come to this locality in 1870 and became well known in his community.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller lived in Kansas three years, then returned to Nod away county. After serving as deputy county surveyor for a period of six years, Mr. Miller was elected county surveyor and bridge commissioner in the fall of 1904, and he was re-elected to the same office in the fall of 1909.

On February 12, 1910. he was appointed county highway engineer, being the first man who ever held two county offices in Nodaway county. This is certainly evidence of his high standing among his fellow citizens here and of his genuine worth and ability as a public servant. As an official he is said to be obliging, courteous, painstaking, honest and conscientious at all times.

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WILLIAM ADAM MILLER.

In the list of Nodaway county's successful citizens and Maryville’s progressive business men William Adam Miller, of the well known “Bee Hive Shoe Store," occupies a prominent place. In his career there is much that is commendable, and his life forcibly illustrates what a young man of energy can accomplish when his plans are wisely laid and his actions governed by right principles, noble aims and high ideals.

Mr. Miller was born June 7, 1872, on a farm near Burlington, Iowa, the son of William S. and Harriet (Crighton) Miller, an influential family of that place. William S. Miller was born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 11, 1847, the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Schmidt) Miller, both natives of Germany. Adam Miller was born in 1820 and in 1834 he came to America and settled in St. Louis, then moved to Lee county, Iowa, and in 1853 he moved to DesMoines. He was a Republican and took an active interest in politics. For some time he engaged in teaching and was an influential and well known man in the early history of that locality. His wife, Elizabeth Schmidt, came from Germany to America in 1836.

William S. Miller, father of William A., of this review, was reared on the home farm and educated in the common schools. He began working in the fields when quite small and learned the meaning of hard work and strict discipline which in later life stood him in “good hand.” He married Harriet A. Crighton on August 1, 1871, and they came to Maryville, Missouri, on March 1, 1893, and are now living one and one-half miles from Maryville. Mr. Miller being retired, enjoying the respite due old age and a man whose life has been one of labor and right living.

William A. Miller was educated in the common schools and at the high school at Morning Sun. Iowa, and at the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Illinois. In 1895 he came to Maryville and in connection with J. H. Becker purchased S. J. Butcher's shoe store and was successfully engaged in this business ten years. R. G. Sanders then purchased Becker's interest and the firm is now Miller & Sanders and their store is known as the “Bee Hive Shoe Store. It is rightly named, being one of the busiest places in Maryville, and is the mecca especially for visitors from the rural districts when trading here. The prestige of this firm is second to none and its business is rapidly increasing.

Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics, a member of the Christian church and of the Woodmen of the World. He was married March 30, 1897, to Effie Weber, of Wapello, Iowa. She was born May 13, 1876, of an excellent family, and is a lady of culture and refinement. This union has been graced by one child, Harriet Elizabeth.

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JOHN S. MILLER.

In the development of Nodaway county the subject of this biography has borne an important part, for he has long been prominently identified with the farming life of the locality, and while advancing his own interests he has not been neglectful of his duty to his fellow-citizens, therefore he is accorded a full measure of esteem by all who know him.

John S. Miller, proprietor of-the well known “Cedar View Stock Farm.” in Polk township, was born in Athens county, Ohio, on August 4, 1847, and he is a son of Daniel D. and Sarah (Bodwell) Miller, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Ohio. After their marriage, these parents settled in Athens county. Ohio, and the rest of their days were spent on the farm where they first located. They became the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters, and of this family the subject of this sketch is the eldest son and fourth child in order of birth. He was reared on the parental farmstead, where he lived until his marriage, at the age of twenty-two year's. He then settled on a farm in Athens county, where he lived until December, 1874, when he came to Nodaway county, Missouri, locating in Hughes township, where he spent the two following years. He then removed to Polk township and soon afterwards bought ninety acres of land there, on which he settled and where he has since resided. He has erected good buildings, planted a splendid orchard and, altogether, he has one of the best appointed farms in Nodaway county. Mr. Miller makes a specialty of the breeding and raising of Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep, Poland-China hogs and White and Buff Leghorn chickens. In the handling of this stock he confines himself to thoroughbreds and enjoys a splendid reputation because of the high quality of the stock sent out from his place. He takes a justifiable pride in his efforts to raise the quality of farm animals and he has accomplished much along this line. Mr. Miller does nothing by halves, and in building his fences he uses cement posts, some of them of his own manufacture, this one item showing the thorough manner in which everything is constructed about the place. Mr. Miller has a practical knowledge of the carpenter's trade, which he learned while living in Athens county, Ohio, and this knowledge has stood him in good stead, he having one of the best-equipped carpenter shops in the county. He is a genial and companionable man and in his comfortable home the spirit of hospitality is ever in evidence. The home is a most delightful abiding place and is the center of a large social circle.

On November 15, 1868. Mr. Miller was married to Sarah Jane Angell. who was born in Athens county, Ohio, on April 13. 1846, a daughter of William and Magdeline ( Hailing) Angell. These parents were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and they both died in Athens county, Ohio. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom Mrs. Miller was the eldest. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have become the parents of nine children, namely: Cora C., the wife of \V. R. Phillips, of the state of Washington; Fred D., a farmer near Barnard, Missouri; Imlah D., of St. Joseph, Missouri; Carl C.. who died in infancy; Gladys B., the wife of John R. Evans, of Polk township; Daniel D., who resides at home; Mattie May, who was the wife of H. M. Dorman, died in the state of Washington on April 4, 1908; Arthur S.. of Washington; William Albert died August 20, 1898, at the age of twenty years.

Mr. Miller has taken a keen interest in public affairs, and has held the offices of justice of the peace for two terms and road overseer for many years, performing the duties of these offices to the entire satisfaction of his fellowcitizens. He also served over twenty years as postmaster, the office being known as Hughes postoffice. He gave it up when the rural delivery was established and the office discontinued. He and his wife are active members of the Missionary Baptist church, to which they contribute liberally of their time and means. Sufficient has been said of the subject to prove him entitled to a place in the front rank of the energetic, self-made men of his adopted state, those who, by well-directed enterprise and unswerving honor, have wrought nobly and well and who from the pinnacle of large success look back over lives of honor and rectitude in which is found little to criticise, but much to commend.

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JOHN S. MILLER, county clerk. This efficient official and popular citizen is a native of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and was born March 8, 1845. When twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Edwards County, Illinois, where his lather, Robert M., engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1862 the family emigrated to Missouri, locating in Gentry (now Worth) County, and here John S. resided until 1862, when he tendered his services to the Union cause, enlisting in Company G, Fourth Missouri State Militia, Cavalry. He participated in many of the stirring engagements in Missouri, and was severely wounded at the battle of the Big Blue, in Jackson County. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of three years. Returning home, he soon after came to Nodaway County and embarked in mercantile pursuits at Guilford, continuing eight years, when he removed to Barnard, and for five years was identified with the business interests of that town. In 1878 he was the

Republican candidate for and elected to the important office which he now holds. Mr. Miller is of emphatic and decided character, untarnished principle, and of strict fidelity to the public interests, his constituents and his party. He was married in 1869 to Miss Catherine Graves, of Nodaway County. They have five children: Martha E., Henry C, Arthur, Mary and Catherine. He is a Master Mason.

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JOHN W. MILLER, farmer and stock raiser, section 20, was born in Granby, Oswego Countyr Illinois, on the 21st of September, 1826. His father, Henry C. Miller, a farmer by occupation, was a native of Onondaga County, New York, and his mother, formerly Hannah A. Scott, of Connecticut. John passed his early days on the home farm and attended the common schools. While young he commenced to learn the cooper's trade of his father, which he followed in all for about seventeen years. In 1849 he left home and started out in life for himself, first purchasing a farm, on which he settled and lived for some time. He then moved to the city of Oswego, from there to Morristown and finally returned to his birth place, where he remained about two years. Mr. M. was next located in Piano, Kendall County, Illinois, for twelve years engaged in working at his trade most of the time, and while in that place served as an alderman. The last four years of his residence there he carried on a lumber trade. Upon leaving, he moved to Tampico, Whiteside County, and for eight years was occupied in tilling the soil, after which, in March, 1878, he came to Missouri and settled where he now resides, purchasing 16a acres of land. This he has improved, and upon it is a small orchard and a residence situated one half mile south of the town corporation. Politically he is a Republican. He belongs to the M. E. Church of Maryville. Mr. Miller was married November 15, 1849, to Miss Harriet L. Stephens, daughter of David Stephens, a native of New York. They have three children: Ellen, born November 8, 1852, (now Mrs. Edwin Meghell); Rhoda, born April 20, 1836; Frank, born July 31, 1868. Mr. Miller's brother, T. J. Miller, was born in Oswego County, New York, February 7, 1831. He was brought up on a farm, and in August, 1850, was married to Miss Betsey A. Rice. In the fall of 1868 they moved to Illinois, and in September, 1877, came to Missouri, where Mr. M. resided until November 19, 1881, when he died, leaving two children: Fred., born March, 1857, and Mattie, born in July, 1869. He was an honored settler of this vicinity, and by his death Nodaway County lost a most respected citizen.

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WILLIAM D. MILLER, farmer, section 21, was born May 4, 1835, in Darke County, Ohio, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Davidson) Miller, the former of Pennsylvania and the latter of Virginia. In 1839 W. D., with his parents, moved to Huntington County, Indiana, and in 1866 he came to Nodaway County, where he has since resided. He has made farming his occupation during life, and now has a farm of 1 14 acres. He was married July 4, 1862, to Miss Martha Black, a daughter of William and Eliza (Branyan) Black, both natives of Ireland. Mrs. M. was born in Dayton, Ohio, July 10, 1840. When six years of age her parents moved to Huntington County, Indiana, where she was married. Mr. and Mrs. M. have had ten children, six of whom are now living: Charles R., Edmond H., Emma E., James A., Ida B., and Thomas N. Mr. and Mrs. M. are members of the M. E. Church.

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ROBERT D. MILLER.

Descended from honored ancestry and himself numbered among the leading citizens of Nodaway county, Missouri, the subject of this sketch is entitled to specific recognition in a work of this character. A residence in this county of many years has but strengthened his hold on the hearts of the people with whom he has been associated and today no one here enjoys a larger circle of warm friends and acquaintances, who esteem him because of his sterling qualities of character and his business ability.

Robert D. Miller, who owns and operates a splendid farm in Polk township, was born on a farm near DeSoto, Iowa, on March 10. 1878. and is a son of John W. and Mary W. (Garrett) Miller, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Kentucky. The father is now deceased, his widow being now a resident of Nodaway county. They came to this county in 1880 and located on a farm in Hughes township, to the cultivation of which the father devoted himself until his death, which occurred on May 17, 1908, when seventy-eight years old. They became the parents of fourteen children, of which number four are living, Martin L., Harvey A., Cora M. and Robert D.

Robert D. Miller was but two years old when the family located in Nod away county, so that practically his entire life has been spent within its borders. He was reared on the parental farmstead in Hughes township, remaining with his parents until March, 1907, when he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Polk township, where he now resides. He is a thoroughly practical and up-to-date farmer, using modern implements and machinery in his farm work, and keeping in touch with the most advanced ideas relating to the science of husbandry. He has a comfortable and attractive residence, commodious and well-arranged barns and necessary outbuildings, well-kept fences and other essentials of a high-grade farm, the general appearance of the place being pleasing to the eye and indicative of the owner’s progressive ideas. Mr. Miller conducts a general line of farming, and also gives considerable attention to the raising of livestock, a valuable adjunct to any farm, and as a result of his enterprise and indefatigable efforts he realizes a comfortable annual income from his place.

Mr. Miller was united in marriage on March 5, 1902, to Maude Gault, who was born in Polk township, this county, on August 4, 1874, the daughter of Lemuel E. and Mary J. (Roberts) Gault. These parents were natives respectively of Tennessee and Ohio and came to Nodaway county in the latter sixties, their marriage occurring after their arrival here. They settled in Polk township, where they remained until in July, 1903, when they removed to Maryville, this county, where they have since resided. They are the parents of eight children, of whom seven are living, namely: Maude, the wife of R. D. Miller; Icca, the wife of D. T. O’Connor; J. Earl; Etha O., the wife of Ered Stephenson, of Maryville; L. Odis; Dessie E.; Yerdie, who died at the age of about twelve years. To the subject and his wife have been born three children, Earl G., Mildred A. and Harold D. Religiously, Mr. Miller is a member of the Christian church and his wife of the Presbyterian, both giving to their churches ardent and liberal support. Fraternally, Mr. Miller is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He is a man of pleasing address and genial disposition, easily makes friends and among his acquaintances are many warm personal friends, who esteem him for his genuine worth.

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JOHN HUBBERT MILLER.

The name of John Hubbert Miller is well known in Green township, where he maintains a good farm, and, in fact, few men of western Nodaway county are better known, and he represents a fine old pioneer family. His birth occurred in Wisconsin, January 28, 1873, and he is the son of Nicholas and Catherine (Fredrick) Miller.

When John H. Miller was a small boy, the family moved several times. For a time his father was engaged in the livery business at Random Lake. hen the son was about seven years old his parents moved to Kansas and there farmer a little over eleven years, then moved to Nodaway county, Missouri, and located in the eastern edge of Green township, one mile south of the Nodaway township line. There the father bought a farm of two hundred acres and established the family home, having sold his Kansas properties. He lived in Green township about eight years, then moved to Chicago, though he retained his farm here, but lived the rest of his life in Chicago, dying in 1904. He was a very successful farmer and business man. During the Civil war he was a member of Company A, Col. Robert G. Ingersolks regiment of Illinois cavalry, in which he made a very creditable record.

The Miller family is of German origin, Nicholas Miller having been born near Luxemberg, Germany, from which country he came to America with his parents, when a child. Ten children were born to Nicholas Miller and wife. Mrs. Miller was previously married before her alliance with Nicholas Miller, her first husband having been killed during the Civil war. By her first marriage one daughter, Katie, was born. At the close of the war she married Mr. Miller, and her daughter has since been known as Katie Miller. Of Mr. Miller's children only three are living, John, Frank, who lives in Chicago, and Joe, who lives in Evanston, Illinois, where the mother of these children also now resides. The following are the deceased children of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Miller: Frank died when about fifteen years old at Random Lake, Wisconsin; Lizzie. Maggie, Mary and Susie all met a very tragic death simultaneously, about 1885, having been struck by lightning, John H. being the only one struck that recovered, and he was badly burned; Jacob was about six years old when he fell off the steps of the Miller home and injured his skull, from which he died about six months later in the fall; Julia died in 1906 when fifteen years of age, while living in Chicago with her mother.

John H. Miller has been living on the home place for the past nineteen years, during which time he has greatly improved it and has been amply rewarded for his painstaking labor. On April 19, 1898, he married Annie Linneman, daughter of Joe and Nettie Linneman. Mrs. Miller was born in Quincy, Illinois, but came to Maryville with her parents when a small child. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Miller, namely: Andrew, Leona died when nine years old; Charlie, Albert and George, all members of the home circle.

Mr. Miller belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp at Maryville, also the Knights of Columbus. He and his family are members of St. Mary's Catholic church at Maryville, and are very faithful in their support of the same, standing well in the local congregation.

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ULYSSES TELEMACHUS MILLER.

One of the best known residents of Calloway county, Missouri, of a past generation, who was also well known in Nodaway county, was Ulysses Telemachus Miller, born on Miller's creek, Calloway county, on July 26, 1826, and he died at his residence near McCredie, that county, on February 15, 1890. For several years of his early life he followed the trade of his father, that of cooper; but upon his marriage to Fanny Larimore. in September, 1855, he moved to the farm which was henceforth his home, to the successful management of which he devoted the remainder of his life. Although deprived in early life of the advantages of extensive education, he was one of those who, by an early education no less real than that of the schools, win for themselves the honorable distinction of “self-made’’ men. By indefatigable industry and business tact he secured for himself an ample competence, and placed himself in the front rank of influential men in the community of which he was a citizen. In this respect he resembled his father, Abraham Miller, one of the honored pioneers of Calloway county, who lived near Millersburg. He took more or less interest in the political affairs of his county and he was assessor of the county from 1849 to 1853. In 1872 he became a member of the White Cloud Presbyterian church, and he was one of the colony from that church which after-

5 76 wards organized the Mt. Olive church. Subsequently he became a member of the then newly organized Westminster church, where his membership remained until his death. As in other things, so in his religious life, Mr. Miller was a modest, unobtrusive man, but those who knew him best could not but be aware of his deep concern for the welfare of the church and all movements looking to the general good of his community. His family consisted of thirteen children, all of whom survived him. Two brothers also survived, Dr. Lee Miller, of Knobnoster. Missouri, and Lycurgus Miller, of Nowaday county.

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L. MILLER, farmer and proprietor of the Melrose Herd, and breeder and dealer in Short Horn and Jersey cattle, Southdown and Cotswold sheep, and Berkshire hogs, is the owner of 300 acres of land in section 29. Mr. Miller was born in Callaway County, Missouri, in 1832, and came to this county in 1859, here purchasing a farm. Farming was his business until 1871, when he turned his attention to fine stock breeding. This he has made a special study and has spared no pains or means in selecting his stock from the best Kentucky importations, and from them he is breeding stock equal in quality, style, and approved strains to any bred elsewhere. This is true also of his sheep and hogs. His whole time is spent in buying, selling and caring for his stock. His extensive acquaintance and integrity is sure proof that his representations are true. Mr. Miller has a portion of the old Prather place, noted as one of the first settled farms in the county. He has everything arranged for carrying on his business to advantage. He married Miss Lucy Jones, of Boone County, Missouri, in 1866. They have two children: Lena, aged fourteen, and Charley, aged twelve.

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JOSEPH A. MILLER, section n, post office Hopkins. The subject of this sketch is a native of Andrew County, Missouri, and was there born December 25, 1852. He was raised in that county till sixteen years of age, when, with the family, he came to this county and settled near where he now resides. He was brought up in the occupation he now follows, and is the owner of 105 acres of land in section 13, besides renting and working 100 acres where he now resides. Mr. Miller was married November 10, 1880, to Miss Ella Lytle, a native of Ohio.

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