John Hubbert Miller

As printed in 1910

JOHN HUBBERT MILLER.

The name of John Hubbert Miller is well known in Green township, where he maintains a good farm, and, in fact, few men of western Nodaway county are better known, and he represents a fine old pioneer family. His birth occurred in Wisconsin, January 28, 1873, and he is the son of Nicholas and Catherine (Fredrick) Miller.

When John H. Miller was a small boy, the family moved several times. For a time his father was engaged in the livery business at Random Lake. hen the son was about seven years old his parents moved to Kansas and there farmer a little over eleven years, then moved to Nodaway county, Missouri, and located in the eastern edge of Green township, one mile south of the Nodaway township line. There the father bought a farm of two hundred acres and established the family home, having sold his Kansas properties. He lived in Green township about eight years, then moved to Chicago, though he retained his farm here, but lived the rest of his life in Chicago, dying in 1904. He was a very successful farmer and business man. During the Civil war he was a member of Company A, Col. Robert G. Ingersolks regiment of Illinois cavalry, in which he made a very creditable record.

The Miller family is of German origin, Nicholas Miller having been born near Luxemberg, Germany, from which country he came to America with his parents, when a child. Ten children were born to Nicholas Miller and wife. Mrs. Miller was previously married before her alliance with Nicholas Miller, her first husband having been killed during the Civil war. By her first marriage one daughter, Katie, was born. At the close of the war she married Mr. Miller, and her daughter has since been known as Katie Miller. Of Mr. Miller's children only three are living, John, Frank, who lives in Chicago, and Joe, who lives in Evanston, Illinois, where the mother of these children also now resides. The following are the deceased children of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Miller: Frank died when about fifteen years old at Random Lake, Wisconsin; Lizzie. Maggie, Mary and Susie all met a very tragic death simultaneously, about 1885, having been struck by lightning, John H. being the only one struck that recovered, and he was badly burned; Jacob was about six years old when he fell off the steps of the Miller home and injured his skull, from which he died about six months later in the fall; Julia died in 1906 when fifteen years of age, while living in Chicago with her mother.

John H. Miller has been living on the home place for the past nineteen years, during which time he has greatly improved it and has been amply rewarded for his painstaking labor. On April 19, 1898, he married Annie Linneman, daughter of Joe and Nettie Linneman. Mrs. Miller was born in Quincy, Illinois, but came to Maryville with her parents when a small child. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Miller, namely: Andrew, Leona died when nine years old; Charlie, Albert and George, all members of the home circle.

Mr. Miller belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp at Maryville, also the Knights of Columbus. He and his family are members of St. Mary's Catholic church at Maryville, and are very faithful in their support of the same, standing well in the local congregation.

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.