Fountain-Parke County IN Archives Biographies.....Miller, Joseph 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Joseph Miller, brewer, Covington, one of the self-made and enterprising
business men of Covington, is a native of Wurtemburg, Germany. In 1854, when
twenty-one years of age, he emigrated to the United States. He spent a short
time in Connecticut, and then came west, and stopped in Montezuma, Parke county,
Indiana, for about six months. In 1855 he came to Covington, where he has since
lived. He began in Covington by working in a hotel for about four years. He then
returned to Germany, and brought his father and mother to this country,— some of
his brothers and sisters coming also,— so that there were six of them in all. He
came direct to Covington, and for the next four years he was engaged in the
cooper's trade; then in the saloon business for about two years; then, in 1865,
in the manufacture of beer. He had, however, spent but two years in the latter
when his brewery burned, he losing everything, and being left with an unpaid
debt of $3,000. Still determined to succeed, he began again in a small way, and
by economy and careful management he gradually recovered, paid off the debt, and
is now running an establishment with a capacity of 20,000 barrels of beer per
annum. In addition to building up the brewing establishment, he has, in company
with his brother, erected a fine business block, and the present year (1880)
will have completed one of the finest residence buildings in the city. In 1860
Mr. Miller was married to Miss Emma Schnider, who is a native of Prussia, though
a resident of Vermilion county, Indiana, at the time of their marriage. They
have a family of six smart, industrious children, three sons and three daughters.

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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