Greene-Owen County IN Archives Biographies.....Miller, Adam 1834 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   ADAM MILLER. Samuel Miller, the father of the subject of this sketch, was
born in Somerset County, Penn., March 3, 1799, and was principally raised in
Westmoreland County. He was a shoe-maker by trade, but the latter part of his
life was passed in farming. In the year 1822, he married his first wife, Miss
Easter, but this lady dying he was a second time married, in Coshocton County,
Ohio, July 4, 1833, to Anna Richey, who was a native of Switzerland, born May
18, 1809, and came with her parents to America when seven years old. Mr. Miller
removed with his family to Owen County, Ind., in 1853, where he died an honored
and esteemed citizen in 1874. Adam Miller is a son by his father's second
marriage, his birth occurring in Coshocton County, Ohio, July 8, 1834, and is
the eldest of ten children. At four years of age, he was taken by his parents to
Holmes County, Ohio, and from there to Indiana in 1853, where he entered forty
acres of canal land. In 1864, he disposed of his property and came to his
present place in Greene County, where, by diligence and economy, he has secured
a valuable farm of 400 acres which he has improved as well as any farm in Smith
Township. Early in 1865, he enlisted as a private in Company F, One Hundred and
Forty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was detailed on garrison duty at
Decatur, Ala., was mustered out of service at Nashville, Tenn., and finally
discharged at Indianapolis. He was married in Owen County, February 14, 1856, to
Sarah A., daughter of Oliver and Delilah (Middleton) Hubbell, who were natives
respectively of Ohio and North Carolina. Mrs. Miller was born in Owen County,
Ind., September 14,1834, and to her union with Mr. Miller, nine children have
been born—Marion, Madison, Marilda and Julia, living, and Manda, Marinda, Anna
A., Samuel O., and Delilah, deceased. Mr. Miller is one of the practical and
progressive men of his township, and for the past seventeen years has been a
member of the Christian Church. For four years he has been an ordained elder in
this religious denomination, and for over a year he has served as pastor at
Winter's Chapel.

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Smith Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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