John C. Miller

As printed in 1908

JOHN M. MILLER, who resides in Spring-field Township, Clark County, Ohio, is a successful business man, who in addition to farming maintains stall No. 42 in the Springfield market. He has a fruit farm of thirty-three acres in Springfield Township, on which he has 600 bearing cherry trees, besides a large number of apple, each and plum trees. During the winter he butchers and dresses poultry for the market. He also rents and farms the Bitner place of 100 acres in Springfield Township. Mr. Miller was born on his father's farm in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1861, and is a son of Emanuel and Anna (Kendig) Miller, and grandson of Emanuel Miller.

Emanuel Miller, father of John M., was one of ten children and was born on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen years he came west to Ohio with a party of men on horseback, Clark County being at that time largely forest land, but he soon returned to Pennsylvania, and followed farming in Franklin County until his death in June, 1890, when aged seventy-two years. He married Anna Kendig, who was born in Pennsylvania and is now living there with her oldest son, at the advanced age of eighty years. They had fourteen children, ten of whom grew up, as follows: Jacob K.; Melinda, wife of H. Frantz; Jerry, who died at the age of thirty-four years; Barbara, wife of John C. Miller; Abraham; Benjamin F.; John M.; Susan E., wife of George Geltzinger; Martin R.; and Harry.

John M. Miller was reared on the home farm and attended the common schools. When nineteen years old he began learning the trade of a machinist, and for three and a half years was in the employ of Frick & Co. in their engine and boiler works at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. He subsequently followed the trade of a tool maker. In 1886 he came to Springfield, Ohio, and worked for the William N. "\tele Company continuously until 1890, except for a short time spent at Dayton, Ohio, and from 1890 until 1892, for the Rogers Iron Company, now the William Bailey Co., of Springfield. In 1887 he purchased ten acres of land in Spring-field Township, from Henry

Frantz, upon which he moved on March 1, 1888, removing from there to his present location in October, 1899, having purchased this place in the fall of the same year. He was always considered a skilled machinist and has also been successful in agricultural work and his business undertakings.

Mr. Miller was married December 5, 1886, to Anna L. Bair, who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Daniel H. and Barbara (Weber) Bair, the latter of whom died after the birth of the following children: Benjamin W., Mary, Anna L., Martha, and Elizabeth. The father of Mrs. Miller formed a second marriage with Clara A. Resh, by whom he has a son, Daniel I. Mr. Bair is living at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are parents of five children, namely: Arthur R., Mary A., Harvey D., Harrold L., and Oscar B. The family belong to the Mennonite Church.

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.