Miller, Frank E.

MILLER

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 13:55:03

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.982

FRANK E. MILLER
Almost forty years have come and gone since Frank E. Miller arrived in Warren County and throughout the intervening period he has been a promi­nent factor in the advancement of the agricultural interests of this section of the state. He is still actively engaged in general farming, owning and operat­ing about two hundred and eighty acres of land, eighty acres of which are located within two and one-half miles of the city of Lacona. Mr. Miller is a native of Illinois, his birth having occurred near Wyoming, in Stark County, August 1, 1.868, a son of George Miller, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work.
Frank E. Miller was but two years of age when he was brought by his parents from the Prairie state to Warren County, so that almost his entire life has here been passed. His education was acquired in the Lacona schools and he was reared on the home farm, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He remained with his father until he attained his majority when he started out upon an inde­pendent business venture, being employed at farm labor by the month. He then engaged in business on his own account by operating rented land for three years in Liberty Township, while in 1894 he purchased a farm, and now owns two hundred and eighty acres, eighty acres of which is located on sec­tion 19, White Breast Township, two miles and a half from the city of Lacona. He has improved his farm with a good residence and substantial outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock, has divided the land into fields of con­venient size by well kept fences and now has a neat and well improved prop­erty, all of which has been acquired through his own economy, energy and well directed labors. In addition to farming he also raises pure blooded, registered shorthorn cattle and Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs, and this branch of his business has added not a little to his financial income each year.
Mr. Miller was married January 1, 1891, in White Breast Township, to Miss Leota Cleveland, who was born and reared in Warren County, a daugh­ter of John Cleveland, one of the early and prominent citizens of this section of the state. They have two sons, Glen E. and Harold I. They also lost one child, Wanda C., who died in infancy.
Mr. Miller gives his political support to the men whom he deems best fitted for office regardless of party affiliation. He and his wife are the oldest surviving members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lacona, of which Mr. Miller is serving as steward, while both he and his wife are active workers in the Sunday school. He has resided in Warren County from his infancy and is therefore numbered among its prominent pioneers, his memory going back to the time when this district was but sparsely settled and much of the land was still in a wild and uncultivated state. The past forty years, how­ever, have wrought many changes and Mr. Miller has not only been an inter­ested witness but an active participant in much that has here been accomp­lished.