MICHAEL J. MILLER
Michael J. Miller, son of Calvin and Sarah Miller, was born in McHenry county, Illinois, October 23, 1849. He came to Cass county in 1874, and has been a resident here since that time. He was married November 13, 1877, to Nancy R. Burnside, who was born at Kirkwood, Illinois, July 10, 1862. Pier parents, Robert and Nancy Burnside, came from Illinois, in 1871, and settled in Atlantic township, where they still reside. In May, 1882, Mr. Miller bought his present farm of eighty acres, in section 5, of Bear Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two children--Robert C. and Earl D.
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. 718.
