JOSHUA MILLER

MILLER, SWINDLER

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 15:17:36

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JOSHUA MILLER, attorney at law, senior members of the law firm of Miller & Goddard; born in Stark Co., Ohio, in 1835; moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1835; thence to Lawrence Co., Ind., in 1841. He married Miss Rhoda A. Swindler in 1844; she was born in Lawrence Co., Ind., in 1827; he moved to Texas Co., Mo., in 1845, and to Lee Co., Iowa, the same winter, and located in this county in 1851; their children are Arthur M., Sarah E., Frank, Charlie A., Lee L., Henry H. and Anna. They attend the M. E. Church; he was an Old Line Whig until the party died in 1852, and has been a stanch Republican since. He owns a very picturesque residence adjoining the city.