ALFRED MILLER.
Alfred Miller is a successful farmer of Exira township, Audubon county, Iowa, where he owns two hundred and forty acres of land. Mr. Miller came to America at the age of twenty-seven and has been living in this country now for thirty-three years. He has lived in many different parts of the country and is thoroughly acquainted with the manners and customs of the people in all sections of the United States, through which he has widely traveled. Mr. Miller has been very successful as a farmer and enjoys an enviable reputation in Exira township, where he is living.
Alfred Miller was born on October 8, 1859, in Schleswig, Germany. His parents were Andrew and Mollie Miller, both natives of Schleswig. Andrew Miller was a laborer in Germany, working at various occupations and trades until he came to America and located in Oakfield township, Audubon county, Iowa, where he lived with a daughter, Mrs. Kathryne Hansen. He is now retired from active labor and is living in Exira, Iowa. Be and his wife were the parents of eight children, as follow: Alfred, the subject of this sketch; Hans is a resident of Exira; Kathryne is the wife of Hans Hansen; Chris is living in Guthrie county, Iowa, as does his brother, Peter; Mary became the wife of Rhomas Louner; Mollie is the wife of J. P. Christensen; Louise married Chris Hansen, a farmer of Oakfield township.
Alfred Miller received his education in the schools of his native country, and after leaving school he moved to Denmark, where he worked for five years as a laborer on a farm. In 1882 he came to America, and located at Omaha, Nebraska, and worked out by the day for a year, after which he came to Audubon county, Iowa, and located in Oakfield township, where he rented a farm until 1887, when he bought a farm. He operated this farm until 1889, when he moved to the farm on which he is now living. He first purchased forty acres, and has gradually added to his land holdings until he is now the owner of two hundred and forty acres of fine land. He is a general farmer and stock raiser and has been very successful in his agricultural pursuits. He raises forty acres of corn each year, twenty acres of small grains, and sells about fifty head of hogs each year. He keeps twenty-five head of cattle on his place the year round.
Alfred Miller was married on March 18, 1887, to Anna Yingved, the daughter of Swend Yingved, and to this union three children have been bom, Mollie, John and Louis. Mollie is the wife of Jesse Nissen. John married Maud Liffingville. Mrs. Miller was born in Denmark, and came to the United States in 1887 with her parents, who settled in Oakfield township, where they lived the remainder of their lives, both being now deceased.
Mr. Miller is a member of the Danish Lutheran church, as well as his family, and takes an active part in the affairs of this denomination. Mr. Miller belongs to the Danish Brotherhood, and adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 865-866.
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