Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Miller, John S 
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Biography of John S MILLER, Champaign County, Illinois

From:  "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878

JOHN S. MILLER - Is a prominent merchant of Champaign city.  Mr. Miller was
born in Jefferson, Ky., December 11th, 1840.  He is a son of S. F. MILLER,
for many years prominently identified with the business interests of
Champaign, but now living in Arcola, this state.  Mr. Miller received his
education in the Jefferson College, in his native town.  Having finished,
at the age of nineteen he went to Eminence, Kentucky, and embarked in the
stove and tin business, which he continued until 1867, with very good
success.  On the 8th of October, 1867, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to
Amanda, the accomplished daughter of James B. ROBINSON, a wealthy planter
of Henry county, Kentucky.  Mr. and Mrs. Miller located in Champaign, the
same month they were married, with a capital of three hundred dollars.  Mr.
Miller engaged in the stove and tin trade again, in the frame building near
his large new brick store No. 80 University Ave.  During the first year he
was associated with his father, but since that has been alone, and by his
assiduous industry, genial manners, and strict business integrity, has
built up an extensive trade which extends over a large part of the county.
He is also doing considerable wholesale business.  Mr. Miller and his
father were the principal contributors to the erection of the Christian
Church, which formerly stood on the Avenue.  He was a former member of the
city council, and is at present an efficient member of the school board.
He is also a live member of the A.F. and A.M. fraternity.  Their only
child, Cora L., was born July 21, 1868.


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