Bio for MILLER, Robert (b.1845), Wright Co., MN

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1025     HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY



Robert Miller, a well-to-do and prosperous farmer of South Side township, 

was born in Germany, August 6, 1845, son of Wilhelm and Sophia (Maurer) 

Miller, the former of whom died in 1880 at the age of eighty, and the 

latter of whom died in 1885 at the age of ninety. Robert Miller was 

reared in his native land. In 1870 he came to the United States, and 

after living two months in La Crosse, Wis., and three months in Meeker 

county, this state, he reached Wright county in 1871, and homesteaded 160 

acres in section 18, South Side township. Five acres had been cleared, 

and in this clearing stood a log house, 14 by 24 feet, with a bark roof, 

and part of a floor. In it was some homemade furniture. Under such 

circumstances he started his career here. For two years he worked without 

a team, and under the most primitive circumstances. At the end of two 

years he secured a yoke of oxen and an old wood wagon, and a harrow with 

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