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Born 1866
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
EDWARD MILLER (1887 > nuts and farms the northeast quarter of section 3, Rock Lake township. He was born in Outagamie county, Wisconsin. July 25, 1866, and is a son of Frederick and Dora (Schroeder) Miller, the former of whom is deceased and the mother being a resident of Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller became Lyon county residents in the nineties and farmer one year, afterward moving to Marshall.
Edward received his education in Wisconsin, where he went to country school until the age of fifteen, after which he worked for his father on the farm until he was twenty-one. Coming to Lyon county in the spring of 1887, he worked on a farm near Marshall one year and the next year, in company with his brother. Will, rented land near Marshall and farmer four years. He then purchased land in Lake Marshall township and farmer four years for himself. Selling his Lyon county property, Edward moved to the northern part of the state and bought land near Brainerd. He and his wife were postmaster and assistant postmaster at Neutral, near Brainerd, three years, and after six years they returned to Marshall, where he worked as teamster two years, after which he resumed farming near the town four years.
In 1906 Mr. Miller moved to the Forbes farm near Lynd and farmer one year. The succeeding four years he spent on the Schroeder farm in Lyons township, and in the fall of 1911 our subject moved to the place where he now resides. Mr. Miller was married November 25, 1889, to Ella Wunderlich, at Watertown, South Dakota. His wife was born August 6, 1867, in Wisconsin, and her parents, Wolf and Emma (Graetz) Wunderlich, were for twenty years residents of Lynd township, Lyon county, later moving to Brainerd, where the father still is living. The Millers are members of the Presbyterian church. They are the parents of seven children, as follows: Fern (Mrs. Wilmar Soul i, of Custer township; Iva, Frances, Elva, Roy, Erna and Eugene.
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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