Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Miller, Joseph T 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Joseph T. Miller, traveling salesman for the Troy Stove Works of Chicago, 
resides upon Keystone Avenue, opposite Mulberry Street, Sterling. He was born 
in Lancaster Co., Pa., June 13, 1843, his parents being Joseph and Eliza A. 
(LeFevre) Miller, natives also of the Keystone State. His father carried on 
farming in his native State, and also owned cars on the Pennsylvania Central 
Railroad. (The State owned the road-bed and the locomotive power, and 
individuals owned the cars.) Mr. Miller sold out his interests there and in 
the spring of 1847 came West, locating in Sterling, where he engaged in the 
construction of stone-work, and followed the occupation until his death, which 
occurred Feb. 12, 1874. The subject of this sketch lived at his father's home 
until about five years ago. He received a common-school education, and learned 
the hardware business at Sterling. In 1872 he went East to Pennsylvania and 
traveled as a salesman for Mitchell, Stephenson & Co., a firm manufacturing 
stoves. In 1878, in company with Mr. Johnson, of the village of Lyndon, he ran 
the flouring mills at that place for one year; then, in 1879, he commenced 
again to travel for the Troy Stove Company, of Chicago, in which business he 
is now engaged. He owns a farm of 277 acres adjoining the village of Rock 
Falls, and also other property in Sterling Township. Mr. Miller was married 
Jan. 13, 1879, to Miss Eva E. Cool, a native of Indiana, and they have one 
son, named Leonard J.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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