Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 957
THOMAS A. MILLER

Thomas A. MILLER, of Washington Township, first came to Harrison County in October, 1879, and in the following spring located on section 2, where he purchased ninety acres of wild land, forty acres of which he broke the first year. He remained on this place until 1890, when he sold and removed to his present farm.

Mr. MILLER was born in the old Keystone State, Westmoreland County, Pa., November 26, 1852, and is a son of Nicholas and Susan (RINSEL) MILLER, who were of German descent. They were united in marriage in 1848, and had a family of six children, of whom our subject was the third. when he was but two years old the family removed to Moline, Ill., while the father worked at carpentering in Henry County. They were living at the town of Kewanee, where our subject commenced his school days, which, however, were broken off by their removal to Iowa County, Iowa, where they located on a farm and remained until the time of their coming to Harrison County in 1888. Our subject learned the carpenter's trade from his father, and did contract work with him for a number of years.

Our subject was married May 10, 1877, to Elizabeth FRUMMER, a native of Ohio, one of a family of six children, of German extraction. Her mother died in Ohio when she was a small child, and her father closed his eyes to earthly scenes, in Harrison County, Iowa, in November 1888.

Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children, Carrie E. and Andrew N.

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