JOSEPH C. MILLER
Joseph C. Miller is a native of New York State, where he was reared and acquired the trade of paper-maker. When a young man, he went to St. Louis and engaged in the brick-making business. Several years later he removed to the State of Illinois, where he was married, and in 1857 removed to Missouri, where he remained until 1862, when he came to Cass county, Iowa, settling in Atlantic township, where he resided seven years. He established the first brick yard in the township and manufactured the brick for the first brick buildings of Atlantic, including the Cass county bank and others. He settled on a farm on section 16, Lincoln township, in 1878, where his family still resides. He died in April, 1881, from a cancer, leaving his wife and children to mourn his premature demise. Mrs. Miller, nee Martha Nelson, was born and reared in Indiana. They had six children--George O., Joseph A., both in California; Mary, wife of William T. Smither, of this township, Charles V., in California; William N., a twin brother of Charles V., at home; and Florence, also at home. The homestead farm contains two hundred and forty acres of good land, which is kept in fine repair and is constantly being improved by those at home.
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. 767-768.
