Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Miller, Elton L. 1865 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Elton L. Miller, one of the progressive farmers of Johnson county, and a
prominent factor in Mission township, is a native of Kentucky. He was born in
Woodford county, March 23, 1865, and is a son of Cabel and Minerva (Lillard)
Miller. The father was born in Mercer county, Kentucky, December 25, 1824, and
died in Mission township, Johnson county, May 3, 1910. The mother was born in
Anderson county, Kentucky, in 1844, and died in Mission township, May 5, 1897.
They were married at Lawrenceburg, Ky., in 1863, and came to Kansas with their
family, arriving at Kansas City, July 4, 1879, and three months later located on
a farm in Mission township, two miles east of Merriam, where the parents spent
the remainder of their lives. Cabel Miller bought a farm of 200 acres, paying
$37.50 for part of it, and $75 per acre for the balance. They were the parents
of three children, as follows, all of whom were born in Woodford county,
Kentucky: Elton, whose name introduces this sketch; Amey, born July 2, 1867,
educated in the public schools of Kentucky and Johnson county, resides on the
home place in Mission township, and Percy L., born November 22, 1869, was
educated in the public schools of Kentucky and Johnson county. Elton Miller
received the elements of his education from his mother and later attended a
private school, conducted by Captain Henry. He then attended public school at
Hickory Grove for a time and from there went to Central High School, Kansas
City, Mo. He attended Kansas University at Lawrence for a time and then took a
commercial course in Spaulding's Commercial College, Kansas City, Mo. Since that
time he and his two brothers have operated the home farm in partnership, and are
among the most successful farmers of Johnson county. The Miller Brothers conduct
their farming operations along scientific lines, but never abandon well-tried,
practical methods for the so-called fads. They were among the first to introduce
alfalfa in Johnson county and have about thirty-five acres under that crop. The
Miller Brothers have recently taken up chicken raising which has proven very
successful with them. Plymouth Rocks are their specialty. The citizens of
Mission township have shown their appreciation of the ability and worth of Elton
Miller by electing him to various offices of trust and responsibility. He was
elected township clerk in 1890 and served two years. He was then elected
constable and after having served four years was elected justice of the peace
and reelected a number of times, serving-in all, ten years. For the past nine
years he has been trustee, of Mission township, his present term expiring in
1916. Mr. Miller as an office holder has always conducted the public business in
the same conscientious and economical manner that he does his own affairs. He
believes that public money should be spent as judiciously as private money, and
in following out that principle the people of Mission township have value
received for every dollar expended by him as a public official.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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