Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Miles, W. H. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   W. H. Miles, merchant, Covington, was born in Troy township, Fountain county,
in 1841, and is the son of Gabriel and Ruth (Alkire) Miles, who settled in
Fountain county in the fall of 1835. He was brought up on a farm, and received
his early education at the district schools. When grown to man's estate he
engaged in farming on his own account, and followed it as a business until 1875,
when he and his brother, J. R. Miles, engaged in the mercantile trade, and were
associated together for one year, since which time he has conducted the business
alone. At the democratic convention for the nomination of candidates for
election to the county offices in October, 1880, he was nominated their
candidate for county treasurer, and was only defeated by about a dozen votes. He
would undoubtedly have been elected had not unfair measures been taken to secure
his defeat. Mr. Miles is an energetic and enterprising man, who has a large
circle of friends, and who, in the building up and establishing a good business,
has been wholly dependent upon his own resources. He is a member of the order of
A.F. and A.M., and is at present filling the following offices: captain of the
host in the chapter, principal conductor of the work in the council, and junior
warden in the blue lodge. He is also a member of the order of K. of P.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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