Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Sterling Brown MILES, Col.
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 678, 679
Polk County Biographies Section

    Col. Sterling Brown Miles, who may be mentioned as one of the
prosperous farmers and stockmen of Polk County, Mo., was born in
Wilson County, Tenn., February 5, 1822, being a son of Thomas and
Margaret (Smith) Miles, who were born in Virginia and Tennessee,
respectively.  The former was a farmer and trader by occupation,
and a son of a Revolutionary War soldier, who settled in Rutherford
County, Tenn., and died there at the ripe old age of ninety-eight,
his wife dying at the age of 104.  The Miles family are of English
descent, men of medium stature, of strong physique, and long lived.
They were Methodist in religious belief.  Margaret Smith was a 
daughter of John Smith, an Englishman.  In 1840 Thomas Miles came
to Missouri and made a settlement in Hickory County, where he lived
until his death in 1862, at the age of eighty-four, his wife dying 
in 1864 at the age of eighty years.  In 1850 Sterling Brown Miles 
went to California and spent one year in the mines of that State, 
and saved considerable money, which he brought back with him to 
Hickory County, Mo., and invested in property in Hickory County.  
During the war he moved to Kansas in 1863, but in 1867 he returned
to Missouri and bought property in Polk County, where he has farmed
ever since.  While a resident of Hickory County he was married in
1847 to Miss Mary Lane Montgomery, a native of Tennessee, a 
daughter of Judge Joseph C. Montgomery, whose sketch appears in 
this work.  By her he became the father of five sons and three 
daughters; Thomas C., of Livingston, Mont.; Lafayette Montgomery, 
also of Livingston, Mont., both being engaged in the livery and 
grain business and wealthy men; Almira, whom  they buried at the 
untimely age of seventeen years in 1869; James Livingston, of 
Polk County, Mo., who is a prosperous farmer; Adella and Isabella
(twin daughters); Lynn Boyd and Dr. Edward Doak, of Brownington, 
Henry County, Mo.  Previous to the war Mr. Miles was colonel under
the old militia system, and during the war, while a resident of 
Kansas, was captain of a company of militia.  In 1878-79 he 
represented Polk County in the Legislative Assembly, being 
elected as a Democrat in a county strongly Republican, but 
notwithstanding this he has always felt averse to holding public
office.  He is a Mason, and he and wife hold membership in the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.  He owns a finely improved and well 
stocked farm of 400 acres.
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