DANIEL A. MILLER
Daniel A. Miller is a native of Franklin county, Indiana, born September 13, 1841. He is a son of G. W. and Harriet Miller, of whom the former was a native of Virginia and the latter of Indiana. They removed, when Daniel A. was very young, to Fayette county of the same State, where his early life was spent. In September, 1861, he enlisted in company F, of the Second Indiana Cavalry, and served until September, 1864. The next month he re-enlisted in company I, of the United States Veteran Volunteers, and served in the defences of Washington and vicinity for one year. He was then discharged with the regiment, and returned home. In January, 1866, he came to Iowa, and located in Warren county, purchasing land in Jefferson township, on which he lived until 1872, when he sold out and came to Cass county. He settled upon the northwest quarter of section 11, Pleasant township, on land which he had bought in 1860. He has since purchased other land, and now owns two hundred and forty acres, all under good improvement. He has erected commodious and substantial buildings, and planted a grove and orchard. The latter is one of the finest orchards in the State, and contains six hundred trees. Mr. Miller was married, in 1867, to Mary Wakefield, a native of Pennsylvania. They have six children--Flora E., Minnie E., Stella E., Daniel C, Alice A. and James Emerson.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex 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, pg. 818-819.
