G. J. Miller

As printed in 1907

G. J. MILLER.

G. J. Miller, engaged in general farming and stock-raising on section 7, Neola township, owns a well improved farm of one hundred and twenty acres and also operates another tract of similar amount. He is one of the early settlers of. the county, having made his home within its borders since 1878. He arrived here when a young man of twenty-five years, having been born in Muskingum county, Ohio, May 18, 1853. His father, George Miller, was born in Germany but was reared and married in this country. On coming to the new world he settled near Zanesville, Ohio, where he reared his family and spent his remaining days.

G. J. Miller was reared to manhood in his native county and educated in the common schools. In the spring of 1878 he left his Ohio home and made his way direct to Pottawattamie county, where he worked by the month as a farm hand for four years, when with the money he had saved from his earnings he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land, upon which he now resides. This he broke and fenced, erected buildings thereon and continued the work of opening up and developing a farm. For a time he kept bachelor's hall but later completed arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage in Neola, on the 7th of August, 1884, to Miss Catherine D. Buchanan, a native of Scotland, who came to the new world when a maiden of eleven years with her father, John Buchanan, who on crossing the Atlantic established his home near Neola, Iowa. The young couple began their domestic life upon the farm where they have since lived. Mr. Miller has here erected a good residence, commodious and attractive in its style of architecture, and has also put up two barns and outbuildings. He now cultivates two hundred and forty acres of land in the production of grain and is also largely engaged in raising and feeding stock, both branches of his business proving profitable.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born five children: Jessie O, George J., Arthur W., Janet T., and Anna S. In his political views Mr. Miller has been a life-long democrat where national issues are involved but cases an independent local ballot. He served as township trustee for three years, was school treasurer four years and secretary of the school board for eight years. He also capable served as assessor for fourteen years, his last term being in 1896. He has been a delegate to the county conventions and is much interested in the political situation of the country, while in office he has always been found trustworthy. efficient and reliable. Both he and his wife are active and helpful members of the Neola Presbyterian church, in which Mr. Miller is serving as an elder, anil their upright lives and fidelity to principle have gained them the kindly regard and warm friend-hip of many with whom they have come in contact.

As printed in History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, from the earliest historic times to 1907 (1907). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.