Carroll-Clinton-Steuben County IN Archives Biographies.....Miller, Jacob (Jr.) 1844 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JACOB MILLER, JR.

   Jacob Miller, Jr., a prosperous farmer of Clay township, where he owns one
hundred and twenty-six acres of land, is a native of Clinton county, Indiana.
Mr. Miller was born on May 7, 1844, he son of Jacob, Sr., and Jane (Matticks)
Miller, both of whom were born in Ohio. Jacob Miller, Sr., owned one hundred and
twenty acres of land in Clinton county. Early in life he was identified with the
Whig party, but later became a Republican. He died about sixty years ago. Nine
children were born to Jacob, Sr., and Jane (Matticks) Miller: Joseph, John and
Bashebian, all of whom are deceased; Rebecca, the wife of Henry Hammond;
Elizabeth, the twin sister of Bashebian; Robert, who lives near Michigantown,
Indiana: Jacob, Jr., the subject of this sketch: Martha Jane and Rachel Ruth,
both of whom are deceased.

   Jacob Miller, Jr., was educated in the common schools. He lived at home with
his parents until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the
Tenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving under Generals Thomas,
Rosecrans and Grant for three years; He participated in the battles of Pittsburg
Landing and Chickamauga and received an honorable dischange at the close of the
war, having had a most valiant record as a soldier.

   After the war Mr. Miller worked by the day at Hamilton, Steuben county,
Indiana. Later he rented his father's farm for sixteen years and then bought
fifty-six acres of his present farm, to which he has since added seventy acres.

   Mr. Miller was married in 1870 to Katherine M. Reavis, who was born on May 1,
1851, and is the daughter of Enoch and Lucy (Daniels) Reavis, who were farmers
by occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been the parents of nine children, of
whom the following are living: Lucy Jane, the wife of William Gillian, of
Radnor; Ellen Alfretta, who married Clinton Colman, and lives east of Frankfort;
Mary B., the wife of Henry Stong, of Frankfort; James Daniel, of Sedalia, who
married Bertha Parse; Alfred, who lives in Canada; and Charles Floyd, who lives
at home with his father.

   Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics and has served for ten years as a
member of the Clay township advisory board. He is well known in the township and
is rated as one of its well-to-do citizens. He has a host of friends in Clay and
adjoining townships.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana



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