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Born 1840, Washington County
From The history of Clinton County, Ohio (1882)
JAMES M. MILLER, farmer, P. 0. Clarksville, son of Levi and Maria (Pennington) Miller, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1840. In 1847, his parents came to Ohio and settled near Cincinnati, where they remained four years and then came to Clermont County, and bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres, where James resided till 1866, when he came to New Vienna, this county, and farmer till 1875, when he came to the farm of two hundred acres, where he resides at present, owned by M. P. Marshall, of Washington, Ky. He also rents two other farms in this county, containing three hundred and seventy acres. He raises a great deal of corn and grain. Has this year one hundred and eighty-five acres of corn and one hundred and sixty-five of wheat and barley. He was married in New Vienna in 1868, to Lizzie, daughter of William H. and Rebecca West, born near Martinsville, this county. They have one son — Claude, born September 24, 1869, in New Vienna. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Friends’ Church.
As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: New Vienna
Their biographies name James M. Miller: Claud R. Miller (b. 1869)
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