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From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910)
WILLIAM ADAM MILLER.
In the list of Nodaway county's successful citizens and Maryville’s progressive business men William Adam Miller, of the well known “Bee Hive Shoe Store," occupies a prominent place. In his career there is much that is commendable, and his life forcibly illustrates what a young man of energy can accomplish when his plans are wisely laid and his actions governed by right principles, noble aims and high ideals.
Mr. Miller was born June 7, 1872, on a farm near Burlington, Iowa, the son of William S. and Harriet (Crighton) Miller, an influential family of that place. William S. Miller was born in St. Louis, Missouri, February 11, 1847, the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Schmidt) Miller, both natives of Germany. Adam Miller was born in 1820 and in 1834 he came to America and settled in St. Louis, then moved to Lee county, Iowa, and in 1853 he moved to DesMoines. He was a Republican and took an active interest in politics. For some time he engaged in teaching and was an influential and well known man in the early history of that locality. His wife, Elizabeth Schmidt, came from Germany to America in 1836.
William S. Miller, father of William A., of this review, was reared on the home farm and educated in the common schools. He began working in the fields when quite small and learned the meaning of hard work and strict discipline which in later life stood him in “good hand.” He married Harriet A. Crighton on August 1, 1871, and they came to Maryville, Missouri, on March 1, 1893, and are now living one and one-half miles from Maryville. Mr. Miller being retired, enjoying the respite due old age and a man whose life has been one of labor and right living.
William A. Miller was educated in the common schools and at the high school at Morning Sun. Iowa, and at the Gem City Business College at Quincy, Illinois. In 1895 he came to Maryville and in connection with J. H. Becker purchased S. J. Butcher's shoe store and was successfully engaged in this business ten years. R. G. Sanders then purchased Becker's interest and the firm is now Miller & Sanders and their store is known as the “Bee Hive Shoe Store. It is rightly named, being one of the busiest places in Maryville, and is the mecca especially for visitors from the rural districts when trading here. The prestige of this firm is second to none and its business is rapidly increasing.
Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics, a member of the Christian church and of the Woodmen of the World. He was married March 30, 1897, to Effie Weber, of Wapello, Iowa. She was born May 13, 1876, of an excellent family, and is a lady of culture and refinement. This union has been graced by one child, Harriet Elizabeth.
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.
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