Louis & Lizette (Baney) Miller

BANEY, MILLER, MERRILL, NEWTON, RIDDLE, FARLEY

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Date: 3/19/2020 at 14:26:02

Louis Miller was born in Saarbrucken, Germany in June of 1836. Louis came with his parents to the United States in 1850. He moved the same year to Iowa, farming in the Sherrill area. On April 8, 1858 Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Lizetta Baney, originally from Wheeling, West Virginia. The Miller’s had four sons’ an8d nine daughters. Some of the children were: Louis C., Willie; Harry, Mrs. R.C. (Katie) Merrill, Mrs. C. H. (Emma) Farley; Mrs. Robert I. (Ida ) Newton; Mrs. Fred (Minnie) Riddle; Carolina and Louisa.

Louis Miller took up farming when he first arrived in Farley and shortly after he engaged in the Hotel business. The "Farley Eating House and Hotel" located at the depot burned in 1864, but was rebuilt in 1871 by Mr. Miller at a cost of $6,000, this time calling it "Sherman House". Louis took the position of mail clerk on the Cedar Rapids and Farley branch of the C. M. & St. Paul R.R. in 1880. He was Justice of the peace; a member of Farley’s town council; the school board and Dubuque County Board of Supervisors. By 1892, Mr. Miller operated the Commercial House Hotel in town. Louis died as the result of a stroke and was buried at Fairview Cemetery. The funeral was at St. George’s Church in Feb. of 1916.

The History of Farley, Welu Publishing, Copyright 1996