Contra Costa-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, C. Ed. 1853 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

C. ED. MILLER.—The present efficient County Recorder of Contra Costa county is a
native of Port Washington, Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, and was born April 5,
1853. When but an infant his parents moved to Milwaukee, and there resided for
two years, moving again and locating in West Bend, Washington county, where they
now reside. Here our subject received a common school education, and afterward
entered the Racine College, of Racine, where he finished his education in 1867.
Mr. Miller then entered the employ of a wholesale dry goods firm of Milwaukee,
where he remained some six years. In October, 1873, he started for California,
via Union and Central Pacific Railroad, and after a short sojourn in Oakland,
came direct to Contra Costa county, and first located in Walnut Creek, where he
remained until the latter part of 1875. Then, after a brief period spent in
mining, he came to Martinez and embarked in the grocery business, in which he
continued until February, 1876. He then was appointed by V. B. Russell to the
functions of Deputy County Recorder, a situation he held until the Fall of 1877,
when he was elected to the position of County Recorder—being, in September,
1879, re-elected to the same office, which he now fills with satisfaction to his
constituents and credit to himself. The subject of our memoir was united in
marriage in Martinez, April 22, 1876, to Miss Rosa Lawless, a native of the
latter-named place, by which union they have one daughter, Martha W., born
February 25, 1877.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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