Lewis C. Miller

As printed in 1910

LEWIS C. MILLER.

Although primarily interested in his own affairs, his large farm claiming the major portion of his attention, Lewis C. Miller, one of Nodaway county’s successful agriculturists, manifests an abiding regard for the advancement and welfare of the community and for any measure or enterprise by which his fellow-men may be benefited. He encourages churches and schools, is a respected of law and order and has no use or sympathy for any calling or business which tends to lower the moral states of the county or degrade the youth of the land.

Mr. Miller is one of the large number of citizens of Nodaway county who were natives of McDonough county, Illinois, his birth having occurred

5 02 there on September 3, 1861. He is the son of Isaac and Martha J. (Berry) Miller, both natives of Indiana, from which state they moved to McDonough county, Illinois, thence to Nodaway county, Missouri, in the fall of 1868, and settled in Hughes township, where they established a comfortable home, owned a good farm on which they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of thirteen children, of whom Lewis C., of this review, was the eighth in order of birth. He was seven years old when his parents came to Nodaway county and he was reared to manhood in Hughes township and educated in the common schools of the same, and lived there until 1909, successfully engaged in general agriculture and stock raising, which has been his chief life employment.

In December, 1909, Mr. Miller moved into Maryville, where he now resides in an attractive home. He owns the old NT i Her homestead and has excellent farming land in this county to the extent of two hundred and forty acres, all improved land, and as valuable as any in the locality.

Mr. Miller was married in Andrews county, Missouri, on January 5, 1888, to Sophia P. Ingman, who was born in Ohio, on April 22, 1861; she is the daughter of Henry E. and Rebecca (Brandt) Ingman, both natives of Fairfield county, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of three children, namely: Fayetta is the wife of Guy W. Williams, who lives on Mr. Miller's farm in Hughes township; Frank P. and Valentine Floyd.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller are active members of the Christian church and, politically, Mr. Miller is a Democrat.

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.