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Born 1853
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
AUGUST MILLER.
August Miller was born on April 29, 1853, in. Germany, and is the son of Powell and Elizabeth (Schmitkens) Miller, both natives of Germany. Powell Miller operated and owned a grist-mill in Germany, and followed the vocation of miller until his death in that country. Two of his brothers served in the German army, and were killed in service during the war of
August Miller immigrated to America in 1870, and first located in Cincinnati, Ohio, but soon removed to Kentucky, where he was occupied as stage driver and at various kinds of labor, for a period of three years, later removing to Illinois, where he was employed for three years as a farmhand. He then removed to Moore county, Minnesota, where he returned to his former trade of miller, which he had learned while a resident of Germany. After following this vocation for some time he removed to Parkdale. Otter Tail county, Minnesota, and operated a mill there for one year. In 1SS0. one year following the arrival in Otter Tail county, he purchased a small water mill located on the property which he now owns in Kagle Lake township. This mill he fully equipped and operated successfully until [894,:it which time it was destroyed by lire. The stream which ran the mill is an outlet of Eagle Lake. August Miller purchased a small farm at the same time he purchased the mill, and has added to the original place, until he now owns three hundred and eighty acres of well improved land. Owing to his realty investments he was fully equipped to enter the agricultural field, and thus, undaunted by the destruction of his mill, he became a breeder of Shorthorn cattle, and has one of the finest herds ever raised in the county. In
1912 he retired from active farming and stuck raising, but still resides on the place, of which he has sold a minor portion.
August Miller was united in marriage to Emma Xeller. a native of Mower county, Minnesota, and to them have been burn four children: Edward, Amelia, Nellie and Robert, all graduates of the high school in Fergus Falls. Edward and Robert are also graduates of the Columbus Business College located at Columbus, Ohio, and Edward is now a professor in a business college in San Francisco, California, while Robert is the head salesman for a furniture concern in Springfield, Ohio. Amelia and Nellie were engaged for some years in the capacity of school teachers. August Miller has always been actively engaged in the furtherance of all questions pertaining to the betterment of the community and has served his fellow citizens as school director, treasurer, and chairman of the board of supervisors, lie is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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