Plumas-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, James 1835 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JAMES MILLER.—He is the son of John and Elizabeth (Cowan) Miller, and was born
near Montreal, Canada, August 19, 1835. His father was one of the leading and
influential farmers of that section. James worked on the farm at home until he
was seventeen years old. In 1852 the gold excitement caused him to emigrate to
Australia. He landed at Melbourne, and started at once for the mines,
seventy-five miles inland, with his entire outfit on his back. He worked about
eighteen months with fair success, and then went to Van Dieman's Land in
Tasmania, and engaged in lumbering for a year. Through the failure of others
with whom he was connected, he lost his all, after which he went to Sidney, and
followed the lumbering business fifteen years. In the summer of 1868 he came to
California, arriving in September, and went direct to Sierra valley, where he
bought the Keyes ranch of 600 acres, three miles west of Sierraville, on which
he built a fine house and extensive outbuildings, a view of which may be seen on
another page. He was married September 25, 1854, to Agnes Harvey, born in
London, July 26, 1837, then of Australia. By her he has had ten children, as
follows: Elizabeth C, born August 28, 1855; Agnes, August 24, 1857; Jeannette,
November 9, 1859; Nellie, September 10, 1861; Maggie C., September 5, 1864;
James John, May 8, 1866; David, September 26, 1868 ; Eva M., August 21, 1870;
Amy L., November 4,1872; Henry Harvey, May 4, 1875. Elizabeth was married to
James Wiggins of Downieville in August, 1875; Agnes was wedded to S. M. York, in
October, 1876; and Jeannette was united in marriage to Fred Olsen, in July, 1880.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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