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From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910)
JAMESON M. MILLER.
This is an age in which the farmer stands pre-eminently above any other class as a producer of wealth. He simply takes advantage of the winds, the warm air, the bright sunshine, the refreshing rains, and with God’s help and by virtue of his own skill in handling nature's gifts he creates hay, grain, livestock and vegetables, all of which are absolutely necessities to the inhabitants of the earth.
One of the residents of Hughes township, Nodaway county, who has had the ingenuity and the courage to develop the resources found round about him, thus, gaining a comfortable living for himself and family and providing for “rainy days” ahead, is Jameson M. Miller, who is a native of the Prairie state, having been born in McDonough county, Illinois, February 11, 1855. He is the son of Isaac and Martha J. (Berry) Aliller, both natives of Indiana. After spending a good many years in Illinois, they left McDonough county and came to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1868 and settled in Hughes township, where they resumed farming and spent the remainder of their lives. Thirteen children were born to them, of whom Jameson M., of this review, was the fifth in order of birth.
The gentleman whose name heads this brief review came to Nodaway county with his parents when about twelve years of age. and here he grew to manhood, assisted with the work on the place and attended the neighboring schools when not at work. When twenty-one years of age he returned to McDonough county, Illinois, and remained there two years, then returned to this township and devoted his attention to farming here until the fall of 1882, when he again went to McDonough county and remained in the vicinity of his birth for two years more, after which he came back to Hughes township and has resided here continuously ever since. He has devoted his life ex elusively to farming and stock-raising; he is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres which are well improved and well tilled. He settled on the farm where he now lives in February, 1889.
Mr. Miller was married in McDonough county, Illinois, November 1, 1882, to Mary M. Oden eller, who was born and reared in that county, and was the daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth Odenweller. This union has resulted in the birth of three children, Isaac Leonard, Berry G. and Ross. Isaac Leonard married Addie Alkire and lives near his parents: Berry G., who married Minnie Ashport, also lives near the old home. Ross O. is attending school.
Mr. Miller finds time to take considerable interest in public affairs. He is a Republican and he and his wife are active members of the Christian church.
As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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