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Born 1847, Cook county
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
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.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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