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Born 1837, Northampton county
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
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.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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