Miller, Frank A.

MILLER

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 13:53:57

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.949

FRANK A. MILLER
The spirit of enterprise and progress which has dominated the middle west and its substantial upbuilding finds expression in the life of Frank A. Miller, one of the younger and more energetic agriculturists of this county. He was born in Peoria County, Illinois, November 9, 1867, and was but six months old when brought to Warren County, where he spent much of his life. For twenty years he has lived upon the farm that is now his home, deriving his income from one hundred and twenty acres of rich farming land. He repre­sents one of the old and prominent families here, his father, the Hon. John H. Miller, having been sent by Warren County to the state legislature, while in other ways he proved a factor in the business life and development of this section of the state.
Frank A. Miller, the eldest in a family of five children, began his educa­tion at the usual age as a pupil in the district schools and was afterward graduated from the Ackworth Academy. This liberal educational training fitted him for life's practical and responsible duties and he received thorough training in agricultural lines on the old homestead. He continued with his father until he had attained his majority, and when twenty years of age he purchased where he now lives, becoming owner of fifty acres of land, on which he built a house and began to farm. Later he bought other property from time to time and now has one hundred and twenty acres. It is a typical Iowa farm, in the midst of which stands a comfortable and roomy residence, while nearby are good barns and outbuildings, everything being in keeping with the spirit of improvement and progress which has at all times characterized Mr. Miller. He has divided his place into fields of convenient size by well kept fences, many of which are of woven wire. He has also tiled and drained his land has grubbed up the hedgeand has otherwise improved his place, making it one of the most attractive districts of the county. Here he is engaged in the rais­ing of thoroughbred Duroc hogs, of which he has made a specialty for five years. He has some very high grade stock and his large barns and sheds afford ample shelter for the same. He has fed cattle for a number of years, having from one to two carloads upon his place. For twelve years he has been engaged in the sheep industry, formerly raising Shropshires, but now giving his attention to the Randlets and English thoroughbred sheep. He keeps Percheron horses and some mules and the extent of his stock-raising interests constitutes one of the chief sources of his prosperity.
On the 26th of October, 1887, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Fannie M. Myrick, a native of this township and a daughter of William Myrick, a representative agriculturist of the community. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born two children: Elliott and Emory, who are now attention school.
Mr. Miller votes with the Republican Party, but though he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, the desire for office has never been paramount with him. On the contrary, he prefers to devote his time and energies to his business affairs. He belongs to Hartford Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; to the Modern Woodmen Camp of Carlisle, of which he has been venerable counsel, and formerly he was connected with the Woodmen Camp at Hartford, of which he was a charter member. In his business affairs he has set an excellent example for improvement in farm methods and operations. He does not hesitate in accepting the methods of work which his judgment sanctions as practical and whatever he does bears the stamp of wisdom and progres­siveness. His business methods, too, are at all times reliable, bringing to him that success which is the just reward of honorable effort.