Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Miller, James 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Miller, James. Is a native of North Carolina, being born in Ashe county
September 15, 1821, where he resided until 1833. He then moved to Lawrence
county, Missouri, with his parents and resided there until 1849, when he
emigrated to California, crossing the plains, being six months making the trip.
Immediately after his arrival, commenced mining in the placer diggings, where he
continued until the Winter of 1852, when he returned to Missouri, remaining but
a few months, and re-crossed the plains the same year to California, this time
settling on his present estate of three hundred acres. Has held the office of
School Trustee. Married Martha Walters in 1858, she being born in North Carolina
in 1841. By this union they have nine children, Sarah, born December 12, 1858;
Emma, born October 14, 1860; Nancy Ann, born January 4, 1862; Mary, born March
4, 1864; Delia, born January 31, 1866; Willie, born June 5, 1868; Effie, born
July 30,1870; Henry, born December 1,1873; Freddie, born September 25, 1877.

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Mendocino Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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