HENRY MILLER
Henry Miller was born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the 17th of August, 1829, and is the son of Martin and Mary Miller. Henry left his home when twenty-one years of age, and went to Montgomery county, Indiana, where he remained about five years, and during that time was engaged in operating a steam saw-mill, built and owned by himself. In 1855, he sold his property, and moved to Warren county, Illinois, and was there engaged in manufacturing wagons and carriages. He continued in that business eleven years, when he erected a planing mill, and began operation. He continued in that work about two years when he sold out, and was engaged in the furniture business about two years, when he came to Cass county, and located in the city of Atlantic, and built a house where the Park hotel now stands. He remained in that city until 1871, when he moved to his present location in Cass township, where he owns two hundred acres of land, forty acres on section 20, and one hundred and sixty acres on section 21. He has some fine stock, and is known as one of the best farmers in the county. Henry was married in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, on the 22d of March, 1853, to Miss Sarah Davis, a native of Vigo county, in that State. They have four children, Anna Eliza, a resident of Harlan, Iowa; George W., now living in Atlantic; Benjamin D., at home; and Stella, at home. Benjamin D. was married on the 24th of October 1883, to Miss Ella Haworth, a native of this county., He now resides on his father's farm, but has a separate house.
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. 508-509.
