Isaac Carol Miller, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     ISAAC CAROL MILLER, is a prosperous hardware merchant of Alexandria, and
is a man whose earnest and sincere endeavor to succeed in life is well
worthy the imitation of the rising generation.  He was born in the Keystone
State, August 31, 1833, being a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Levan) Miller,
the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and removed to Ohio when
the subject of this sketch was about six months old, and later settled in
Delaware County, Ohio, where he carried on farming until his death, which
took place in 1848, leaving, besides his widow, seven sons and one daughter
to mourn their loss.  The mother died in 1889.  The subject of this sketch
grew to manhood in Ohio, and at the age of fifteen years began learning the
tinner's trade in Delaware and there completed his knowledge of the
business.  He left Ohio at the age of seventeen and went to New Orleans and
in that city worked at his trade until 1856, when he came up Red River and
spent a year and a half at Mansfield and about the same length of time at
Natchitoches, at the end of which time he came to Alexandria, working for a
number of years as a journeyman, but the coming clash of arms caused him to
throw aside his tools, and for three years he aided to the best of his
ability the Confederate government, proving himself to be a trusty and
efficient soldier.  After the war was over he returned to Alexandria, and
in 1866 engaged in business as a tinsmith and subsequently added hardware
to his original stock, also agricultural implements, and has since done a
lucrative business.  He was married in Natchitoches in 1859 to Miss Levinia
Rowlson, a native Louisianian, by whom he has four sons and four daughters:
 Ambrose (in the saw milling business in this city), Laura C. (wife of
Joseph Fitzpatrick, a planter), May E. (wife of Emil Tasted, of New
Orleans), James, William, Josephine, Levinia and John.  Mr. Miller and his
family worship in the Episcopal Church.  He has served in the city council
and has been a member of the school board, proving painstaking and zealous
in the discharge of his duties.