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Born 1849, Highland county
From History of Marion County, Iowa, and its people (1915), The history of Marion County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., biographical sketches of its citizens ... &c (1881)
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NILES, ABIAL— Farmer, Sec. 19, P. O. Caloma. Was born in Orleans county, Vermont, April 10, 1817. He was raised in his nation State until he attained his majority and then removed to Massachosetti, and in 1850 emigrated to Lee county, Iowa, and in the fall of 1855 came to Marion county. He owns 165 acres of well improved land. He is one of the oldest settlers in the township, and one of its organizers.. Politically he is a staunch Republican, and has an abiding and enduring fifth io the principles of the party. He is well posted on the questions of thedajf and a genial and compamouable gentleman. He ha> been twice panied;
nt, to Mi88 Harriet Field, Janaary 25, 1844. She doing left five children: Alonzo A., Albertin C, Fredrick N., Ella aad John N*. His seed marriage occurred December 19 1870, to Mrs. Jalia Dann.
RIGGLE, A.— Farmer, Section 14, P. O. Star. Was born in Carroll county, Ohio, Jnly 3, 1880. He was raised on a farm, and in 1854 Etme to Iowa and settled in Cedar county, and in the spring of 1865 came 3 Marion county. Owns a farm of forty acres. He married Miss Jnlia L. Simmons March 5, 1852. She was also born in Carroll county, Ohio, ley have four children: Eliza J. Isabel, M. S. O. and Edwin S. Lost ne son, Knfus.
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ROSENBISKG, DON— Farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 31, P. O. Caloma. Vas born in Otsego county. New York, December 4, 1832, and principally raised in his native county. In the spring of 1848 he moved to Maryland; rom there to Wisconsin; thence to Minnesota. He enlisted in company 0, **fourth Minnesota infantry, and served one year, and participate in the allowing battles: luka, Corinth and other important engagements. He ras mustered out in 1862. He then settled in Illinois, residing there three ears; and then went to Kossuth county, Iowa, in the fall of 1865; thence Marion county, in the fall of 1874. He married Miss Martha H. Benlett October 26, 1856. She was a daughter of Wilson Bennett. They lave eleven children: William H., Emma L., Mary E., Ida H., Nellie, LIfa M., Alma, Charles F., Jacob A., Edwin S. and (george. NYDER, J.— Farmer, Sec 29, P. O. Caloma. Was born in Richland ID county, Ohio, September 24, 1828. When twelve years of age he loved with his parents to Missouri, settling on what was then known as he Piatt purchase, in the fall of 1840. From this place he came to Polk county, Iowa, where he lived two years, and then went to California, and ived there three years and returned to Polk county. After a residence in Unggold and Warren counties he came to Marion county, in 1874. He carried Miss May Fouk, October 2, 1856. Their family consists of six children.
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As printed in The history of Marion County, Iowa : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., biographical sketches of its citizens ... &c (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
NEWTON F. MILLER.
Newton F. Miller is a progressive farmer residing in the vicinity of Knoxville and is well known in Marion county. He was born in Highland county, Ohio, in 1849, a son of Jacob and Eliza (Weir) Miller, natives of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and Highland county, Ohio, respectively. The father was born in 1816 and the mother in 1823. Their marriage occurred in Highland county, Ohio, and the mother passed away there in 1867. The father removed to Warren county, Iowa, in that year and in 1868 came to Marion county, purchasing land in Pleasant Grove township, which he farmer until about 1888. He then went to Pleasantville and lived retired until his death, which occurred in 1890. He was a democrat in politics. Following the death of his first wife he married Mrs. Ducksworth, by whom he had one child. Newton F. Miller was the third in order of birth of the six children born of the first marriage.
Mr. Miller of this review accompanied his father to Iowa in the late '60s. His education was mainly acquired in Ohio, but he studied for a term in the Central University of Iowa at Pella after the removal to this county. When twenty-one years of age he married, and began farming for himself, previous to which time he had taught school in the winter and assisted his father in the work of the home farm during the summer. The first year that he farmer for himself he rented land, but at the age of twenty-two years he had saved sufficient to enable him to purchase forty acres in Pleasant Grove township. He subsequently purchased a farm in Franklin township and in 1899 bought the farm where he now resides, which is situated on section 2, Kno.will township, and consists of fifty-five acres. He also owns two hundred acres on section 3, that township, a part of the last mentioned tract of land being rented and part devoted to pasture. Mr. Miller has about forty head of cattle and also raises Red Jersey hogs, devoting more attention to the raising of stock than to the cultivation of grain, as he believes it more profitable. He has resided in Knoxville township since 1894, although he did not purchase his present home farm until 1899. He has made all of the improvements upon the place and everything is in a splendid condition, his residence being large, comfortable and of attractive appearance. On the ist of October, 1909, at the suggestion of Judge Crozier he organized the bank in Knoxville which is known as the Guaranty Bank and was cashier of the institution for three years and nine months. At the end of that time he sold his interest to E. R. Jordan, assistant cashier of the Citizens Bank of Pleasantville, and his brother for a consideration of ninety-five hundred dollars, or one hundred and twenty-five dollars a share, as he owned seventy-six shares. Mr. Miller placed the bank upon a sound basis and it is now one of the most substantial institutions of the kind in the county.
Mr. Miller was married to Miss Mary J. Elliott, who was born in Mahoning county, Ohio, about 1846 and passed away in 1870. Mr. Miller subsequently married Miss Candis Marsh, a native of this county, and they have five children: Ruby M., who is a sophomore at Simpson College, Indianola; Ruth Helen, who is a freshman at the same college and who won a scholarship, as she was the valedictorian of the class of 1914 at the Knoxville high school, and Edna Frances, Leon N. and Robert L., all in school.
Mr. Miller is a democrat and from 1896 to 1900 served acceptably as county auditor, being the first auditor who had offices in the new courthouse which was finished in January, 1897. His activities as a farmer have not only won him financial independence but have aided in the agricultural development of the county, and his upright and straightforward life has gained him general respect.
As printed in History of Marion County, Iowa, and its people (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: E. R. Jordan (b. 1883) John Miller
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