Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Miller, Jacob 1848 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

JAKE MILLER

THE pioneer photographer of Great Bend is Jake Miller who still operates a
studio on Broadway a few doors east of the federal building. Mr. Miller was born
in Adams County, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1848. He came to Great Bend in 1872 and
soon after his arrival opened a photograph gallery and nearly all the well known
old timers have posed before Mr. Miller's camera. Many of the illustrations of
the old time scenes and people in this book are cuts made from photos furnished
by Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller helped to set the type from which the first newspaper
in Great Bend was printed. He was married in 1878 to Miss Carrie E. Rankin and
they are the parents of two children: Leon, who is now a telepgaph operator
employed by the Associated Press at St. Joseph, Mo., and Anna, who is now Mrs.
David Gordon of this county. Mr. Miller was well acquainted with the old timers
and pioneers of this section of the state and knows a great deal about the early
history of Barton County, as he is one of the men who helped to make it.

[photo] Early Picture of First Photographer, Jacob Miller


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From "Biographical History Of Barton County" (1912)

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