Elias Miller

As printed in 1898

LIAS MILLER, one of the most respected old-time farmers of Bath township, Summit county, was born in Stark county Ohio, March 12, 1824, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Williams) Miller, the former of whom was born October 5, 1796, and v.as a son of George Miller, who was born November 7, 1763.

Peter Miller married Miss Mary Williams February 13, 1823, and came to Bath township, Summit county, in 1848, and settled on a farm one-half mile east of the center thereof, where he continued to follow his life-long vocation as an agriculturist and attained a considerable degree of popularity and influence with his fellow-townsmen, whom he served as township trustee, school director and justice of the peace, having been elected by the democratic party, of which he had been a member until a few years before his death, when he became a republican. In religion he was from boyhood a convert to the Evangelical faith and was a consistent member of the church of that name. He lost his wife, Mary, in 1826. She had borne him two children: Elias, the subject of this biography, and Robert S. For his second helpmate he married Nancy Sprankle, who gave birth to three children: James, Joseph and Milton. Joseph died February 25, 1843, and the death of Peter Miller occurred March 31, 1870.

Elias Miller was well educated in the district schools of Stark and Summit counties, and was reared by his father to the honorable and noble pursuit of agriculture. He married, April 16, 1848, Miss Sarah Sprankle, who wa. born June 16, 1827, a daughter of Jacob Sprankle, who was born in America in 179S. Mrs. Sarah Miller died May 10, 1895, mother of the following-named children: Jacob S.. who was born November 12, 1849, married Miss Mary Ei Ball, of Copley township, January 1, 1874, and died at Canal Fulton, May 7, 1878; Elta Ann, who was born November 28, 1851, was married to Wait Hopkins, and died January 13, 1896; Nancy, born December 18, 1854, now the wife of Daniel Mull, and a resident of Cleveland; Mary A., who was born February 27, 1857, is married to Newton Hockett and resides in Bath township, on the old homestead, Emma A., born February 19, 1859, died October 3, 1871; Sarah D., born June 13, 180.1. was married to John Rothrick, and died Juiy 18, 1892, and Peter Milton, who v.'as born in

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As printed in A portrait and biographical record of Portage and Summit counties, Ohio (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.