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Born 1856
From History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880)
CHARLES M. MILLER, teacher; Andrews; is the only son of Elijah and Frances (Cook) Miller. Elijah was born Nov. 16, 1833, in Pennsylvania, and emigrated to this State with his parents about the year 1848, and several years afterward was married to Frances Cook, who was born in Branch Co., Mich., in Sept. 1836. The Cook family are of Yankee extraction, and the Millers of German descent. Since the arrival of Elijah, the father of Charles M., he has been a constant resident of this township and county. Charles received the advantages afforded by the common school, and also attended school at Gilead and the Normal, at Ada, and began teaching at the age of 18, and since that time has been engaged in his chosen vocation, and is classed among the successful ones; he is now teaching his third term at Williamsport. He was born Dec. 25, 1856, in Congress Tp., and lias since been a resident of the same. June 'hi, 1879, he was married to Mamie Parson, who was born in Knox Co., Nov. 12, 1858, a daughter of S. V. R. and Elizabeth (Mc- Cutchen) Parson, who resided in Paulding, where Mamie was born; Mr. Miller and wife are members of the M. E. Church.
As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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