Biographical Sketch of C. Miller, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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C. Miller, attorney at law, Dixon, MO., is a native of Fayette 
County, born in Vandalia, in the State of Illinois, December 25,
1833.  He is the son of John C. Miller and Nancy Dudley Miller.
His father was born in Grainger County, Tenn., in the year 1799,
and died on his farm on Spring Creek, which was first Pulaski, 
then Maries, and now Phelps County, MO., his death occuring on
June 10, 1867.  His mother, Nancy Dudley Miller, was born in the
city of Portsmouth, VA., and died June 10, 1872, at Rolla, MO.  
Her genealogy dates back to the earliest English settlements in
America, whose ancestry were of the Dudley family, of England.  
The father resided upon and operated a fine farm, taught school,
was elected judge of the county court and justice of the peace
for many years.  He was a participant in the War of 1812, and
received a serious wound in the battle at Pensacola, Fla., which
made him an invalid throughout life, and finally caused his death.
He was the father of ten children, eight of whom are living, and
all reside in Phelps County, MO., with the exception of C. Miller,
whose name heads this sketch.  The latter spent his early life in
Phelps County, and there received a good education in the common
schools and at home.  He began life for himself at an early age,
first engaging in the mercantile business in Maries County, MO.,
and in 1859 and 1861 established two stores in Pulaski County.  
At the latter date he opened a store in Rolla, and in 1862-63 
served as sheriff of Phelps County.  About this time he assisted
in organizing the Thirty-sixth Regiment Missouri Infantry Volunteers,
and was in command of Company B of this regiment for some time.  At
the age of eighteen, while yet residing with his father, he began 
the study of law, and continued reading for many years, accumulating
a large library of law books, which, however, was unfortunately 
burned in 1869.  He was admitted to the Pulaski County bar in 1874,
and has since devoted his attention to the practice of his profession
in the Eighteenth and Ninth Judicial Circuits.  He is the oldest
notary public in the county, now holding his sixth commission.  He
has a fine farm of 400 acres , 150 of which are under good cultiva-
tion.  All is under fence, and makes one of the best farms in the
county.  In 1855 he was married to Miss Charlotte B. Love, who died
the same year.  Afterward he married his second wife, Miss Annie
Fleming, who was born in Nashville, Tenn.  They have two daughters
living, Flossa Dudley and Gertrude May, and one son and one daughter
deceased.  Mr. Miller is a Republican, and cast his first presidential
vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

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