Joseph Miller

MILLER, MCCOLLUM, GREENE, BOLDAN

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 8/20/2002 at 22:59:22

Joseph Miller is one of the earliest settlers of Coldwater township. He was born in Miami county, Ohio, in 1818. In 1845 he removed to Warren county, Indiana; from thence, in the spring of 1856, to Tippecanoe county, coming to this township in the fall of that year. He settled at his present home on sections 5 and 6, which he purchased of the government.
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He was married in Ohio to Sarah McCollum, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1818. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had ten children, to-wit-Cornelius D., Mary D., now Mrs. Linas Greene; Jesse R., Oliver H.P., Margaret; now Mrs. John F. Boldan, and Joseph A. The deceased children are - Francis M., Elizabeth, William A. and Martha. Francis M., their oldest child, enlisted during the rebellion in the Thirty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and died at Cape Girardeau, January 20 , 1863.
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Mr. Miller has held the office of assessor of the township, and is now one of the trustees, and a member of the county board of supervisors. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are members of the U.B. Church.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Pages 550-551