MILLER, Thomas

MILLER, PERIN

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 13:43:55

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

THOMAS W. MILLER, farmer, Sec. 1; P. 0. Grand Mound; owns 80 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; son of Phillip S. and Chloe Miller; born May 8,1830, in Livingston Co., N. Y.; emigrated to Kent Co., Mich., in the spring of 1856. and,
in the spring of 1859, came to Iowa; engaged in the employ of the C. & N.-W. R. R. Co.'s car-shops at Clinton and assisted in building the first new passenger coach that ran west from Clinton. In September, 1862, enlisted in Co. C, 26th I. V. I.; participated in battles of
Chickasaw Bayou and Arkansas Post, after which, he was employed as a mechanic on detached service principally; mustered Out at Davenport in August, 1865, and then engaged in house-building, in and about Clinton and Lyons; in May, 1871, came on to his present farm. Married Mary Perin, daughter of Noble and Sarah G. Perin, January 1,1861; she was born in this county in September, 1837; her parents were among the very first settlers of Clinton; have six children—Sarah L., Charles
P., Mary C., Harvey R., Hattie R. and Thomas W. lost three, Effie M., Ada and infant. Is a member of De Witt Lodge, No. 33, A., F. & A M. Wife a member of the M. E. Church. Republican.