MILLER, GEORGE

MILLER, HUBBARD, MOORE, KINCANNON, LEPHOLD, HENRY, CAREY

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 12/24/2003 at 11:51:25

Biography reproduced from page 492 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

George Miller is one of the well known and prosperous citizens of Kossuth county where he is successfully engaged in the cultivation of a highly developed farm of three hundred and twenty acres located in Plum Creek township. He was born in Nicolet county, Minnesota, near St. Peter, December 7, 1872, and is a son of Henry and Minnie (Hubbard) Miller, the former a native of Germany and the latter of West Virginia. The father emigrated to the United States when he was eighteen years of age and settled for a short time in Pennsylvania. He later removed to Illinois and subsequently to Guttenberg, Iowa, remaining for two years, and then established his permanent home in Minnesota near St. Peter. During the active years of his life he was engaged in farming. He and his wife are now residing at Sanborn, Minnesota. In their family were ten children: Charles, who is a conductor in the employ of the Northwestern railroad and resides at Zumbrota, Minnesota; John, who is a section foreman at Leigh, Minnesota; Henry, who is following agricultural pursuits at Niawa, Minnesota; George, the subject of this sketch; Lewis, who was a resident of California and on March 13, 1910, while on a visit to his old home in Minnesota was waylaid and killed; Edward, at home; Lizzie, who became the wife of J. E. Moore, and resides at Catawba, Wisconsin; Minnie, the wife of William Kincannon of Birchwood, Wisconsin; and Sophronia, who became the wife of William Lephold of Sanborn. Henry Miller is a man who in his active business career was interested deeply in the public welfare of the community in which he lived and held many offices of public trust in the township and county. He was a member of the home guard of Minnesota and took part in quelling the New Ulm outbreak which at one time assumed alarming proportions in his part of the state.

George Miller was reared at home and received his early education in the public schools. At the age of fifteen years he went to Algona, Iowa, where he attended school in the winter and was engaged as a farm hand during the summer season, thus alternating his studies with his work for two successive years. He then went to the woods in northern Wisconsin and there engaged in work as a lumberman for five winters. The summer seasons he spent in Algona and vicinity engaged in farm labor. He was later an employe of Ambrose Call for one year and at the expiration of that time he rented land which he successfully cultivated. In 1897 he purchased the farm which had been the old homestead of his father-in-law, and one year later established his home on that property which he has since greatly improved with buildings. He has brought the farm of three hundred and twenty acres to a high state of cultivation, and is a breeder of thoroughbred Chester White hogs.

Mr. Miller was united in marriage on January 12, 1896, to Miss Katie Henry, who is a native of Kossuth county, Iowa, born December 26, 1872, and to that union two children were born, Bertha Lois, and Charles R., both of whom are at home. Mrs. Miller is a daughter of John W. Henry, a native of Indiana, who came to Kossuth county in 1867, and was a successful farmer of Plum Creek township. He married Naomi Carey, a native of Ohio. He died March 18, 1910, but his widow lives in Algona. Mr. and Mrs. Henry had two children: Elliott Carey, who died in 1900; and Mrs. Miller. Mr. Miller acts mostly independent in the exercise of his franchise, having, however, affiliations with the democratic party. He has served as school director of the district in which he lives and is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Algona and the Modern Woodmen of America of the same place. He and his family attend the Congregational church, although he received his early religious training in the German Lutheran church. Mr. Miller is one of the enterprising men of Kossuth county and is numbered among the most highly esteemed and desirable citizens of his part of the state.

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