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Born 1828
From The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominen (1883)
THOMAS J. MILLER was born in the state of North Carolina, Aug. 19, 1828. He is the son of Louis Miller, who was a native of North Carolina, moved to Indiana in 1832, and was one of the large and successful farmers of Hamilton county. He had eight children, our subject being the fifth child. At eighteen years of age he ran away from home and said one year, then returned and said with his father until twenty-one years of age. He was then married to Miss Eliza Snider, who was born in North Carolina, March 17, 1830, and was reared in Indiana; from which place our subject moved to Iowa and farmer there sixteen years; then moved to Nebraska, and farmer three years; then moved to Newton county, and in the spring of 1867 located on his present farm of 180 acres, which is well improved and well watered; also has forty acres in Newton county. Mr. Miller has eight children, named John W., Rhoda M., Mary, Nancy, Jessie, Franklin, Ida, and Ella.
As printed in The history of Jasper county, Missouri : including a condensed history of the state, a complete history of Carthage and Joplin, other towns and townships : together with numerous portraits of prominent (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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