Stephen T. Miller

As printed in 1907

STEPHEN T. MILLER, D. V. S.

Dr. Stephen T. Miller, who is city meat and fruit inspector for Council Bluffs, was born on a farm in Powcsheik county, Iowa, on the 23d of August, 1864, and is a representative of one of the old families of this state, his parents having located here at an early period of Iowa's development. The father, Jacob S. Miller, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1812, and after his removal to the middle west continued his residence in Iowa until his death, which occurred in Montezuma in 1877. He married Armilda Edmonds and they became the parents of a large family "of seventeen children, fourteen of whom are yet living. The mother still survives and makes her home in Montezuma.

Dr. Miller of this review spent the first fifteen years of his life in the county of his nativity and during most of that period was a pupil of the public schools near his father's home. In 1879 his mother removed to Norton, Kansas, where he lived on a homestead until 1892, and there he completed his education in a sod schoolhouse, such as was common upon the plains of the Sunflower state, where it was difficult to obtain building materials. Considering his education completed at the age of twenty-one, he started in life "on his own account. About that time he was elected a school director and served for three years. He went to school, however, for nine months after he was elected to office, and, as he expresses it, "hired his own teacher," and says that he learned more in that period than he had done in all of his previous attendance at schools. In 1891 he became a student in a veterinary college at Des Moines, Iowa, and was graduated in 1893. He then located at Shelby, Iowa, as a veterinary, and in 1898 he pursued a post-graduate course in the Kansas City Veterinary College. In 1905 he located for practice in Council Bluffs, where he has since remained, and he has here secured a liberal patronage as a member of the profession. In 1906 he was made meat and fruit inspector, which position he is still filling, and in 1907 he was appointed by Governor Cummings assistant state veterinary.

Dr. Miller was married in 1891, in Kansas, to Miss Ida Roys, and they have three children: Russell T., Miss Marvel D. and Bernard C. Dr. Miller belongs to the Yeomen and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also connected with the Methodist Episcopal church. Although he was denied in youth many advantages which most boys enjoy, owing to the fact that he lived upon the frontier, he has nevertheless made use of his opportunities and he has now attained to a position of prominence in his profession owing to the skill which he has acquired therein.

As printed in History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, from the earliest historic times to 1907 (1907). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.