ROBERT MILLER
Robert Miller came to Cass county in 1875 and bought eighty acres of land on section 29, Noble township. He improved the land, planting an orchard and vineyard, which are now thriving, the latter producing abundantly. He was born in Pennsylvania, May 15, 1817, and when quite young his parents settled in Alleghany county. When Robert was sixteen years of age they moved to Mercer county. he remained at home until twenty-one, when he started for himself. He followed common farm work until twenty-five, when he bought and paid for one hundred acres of land in Mercer county. He then learned the carpenter and cabinet maker's trade and soon started a cabinet shop. He next sold his shop, going to the city of Alleghany, where he resumed the same business. He was married on the 10th of August, 1847, to Matilda Gillaspey, a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. of this union there are five children -- Arlinden C., Josiah E., Julia A., Mary J. and William J.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 657.
