Biography of Peter Miller - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 93

Peter Miller, the proprietor of Morrilton's meat market, has been
identified with the affairs of Conway County since 1881, when he
settled here on his arrival from Germany, to which country he owes his
nativity, being born there on Christmas day in 1859. His parents, M.
and Annie (Wellingbar) Miller, were both natives of Germany, and were
the parents of one other child, Joseph. Mr. Miller, Sr., died in 1878,
but his wife still lives, and resides in Germany with her son Joseph.
Our subject was educated in Germany, and at arriving at his fourteenth
year began working in a silver mine; he followed this for five years,
and at the end of that time came to America and took up his residence
in Conway County, where he began working in a shingle mill. In 1884 he
started his present business, in which he has been successful; he now
has a nicely fitted up shop with all conveniences for supplying the
people of Morrilton with everything expected a completely-equipped
meat market. He was married to Mary Sholle on May 13, 1886. Mrs. M, is
also a native of Germany. They are now the parents of three children,
named Mary, Rosa and Joseph. The family worship at the Catholic
Church, to which Mr. Miller devotes time and means, assisting to
advance its cause. Is an earnest advocate of schools, and does much to
improve the beautiful City of Morrilton in which he has cast his lot,
and is rapidly making his fortune.