Wilmer Miller

As printed in 1882

WILMER MILLER, telegraph operator and agent on the M. & C. R. It. at

Martinsville, was born in Hanover Township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, June 28, 1841. He is a son of Isaac and Martha (Pennington) Miller, also natives of Columbiana County. Their parents were early pioneers in that county. At the age of seventeen, Mr. Miller’s parents removed to Clark Township, Clinton County. He received his classical education in the common schools and at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. He followed blacksmithing and wagon and carriage making in Martinsville till 1863. The year 1864 he was in the mercantile business in Hillsboro, Highland County, with Lewis McKibben. In 1865, he returned to Martinsville, and learned telegraphy, and since that date has occupied the above position — -is also express and railroad agent. Mr. Miller is dealing quite extensively in grain. He and his partner, W. W. Walker, purchased and disposed of, in 1881, 30,000 bushels of grain. On November 21, 1861, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Fulton, a native of Clark Township, where she was born July, 3, 1845. Mrs. Miller was a daughter of Dr. Robert and Mary Fulton. Six children were the fruits of this union; of these four are living — Jessie A., Edward, Leonard S. and Maud. Frankie and Willie are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Miller is connected with the Masonic order and I. O. O. F., in which he is Noble Grand. His political views are Republican. He served as a member of the Village Council four years. He owns a residence and four acres and a farm of 125 acres, which is well improved and under a good state of cultivation. Mr. Miller is an enterprising man and an esteemed citizen.

As printed in The history of Clinton County, Ohio (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.