Biographical Sketch of H. C. Miller, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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H. C. Miller was born in Wilmington, Del., May 10, 1855, the son of
E. F. and T. E. (Richmond) Miller.  E. F. Miller was born in Saxony,
Germany, in 1814, and was a machinist by occupation.  He came to
America when about the age of thirty years, and located in Philadelphia
but afterward moved to Wilmington, Delaware.  After remaining there a
short time he moved to Marshall, Texas, and then back to St. Louis, 
Mo., where he followed manufacturing for some time, but moved from 
there to St. Paul, Minn., and then to Rolla, Mo., where he first 
followed mercantile pursuits, and afterward the livery business.  He is
now living in Rolla.  Mrs. T. E. (Richmond) Miller was born in Balti-
more, Md., in 1832, and by her marriage to E. F. Miller became the 
mother of nine children, six now living, of whom our subject was the
second in order of birth.  He grew to manhood and was educated in St.
Louis and Rolla, Mo.  He then clerked from the time he was fourteen 
years of age until he was twenty-nine, when he engaged in business at
Mountain Grove, when there were only twenty people in the place.  He
started with a capital of $300, and carried on merchandising two or
three years, when he gradually became interested in the lumber busi-
ness.  He became a partner in the Lake Lily Mills, and helped remodel
it.  He is now a partner with his brother in the store here, and owns
3,000 acres of land in Cleveland County, Ark.  He owns a saw mill plant
on his land, which annually cuts 7,000,000 feet, and they ship 800 car
loads of lumber and timber per year.  His whole investment there is
about $25,000.  In 1881 Mr. Miller was married, his wife's birth 
occuring in Illinois in September, 1861.  This union resulted in the
birth of two children, Mabel and Minnie.  Mr. Miller is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., and is Past Master; is a Republican in politics, and he
virtually built the Methodist Epsicopal Church building.  He is one of
the essentially progressive men of South Central Missouri, and has done
more than any other one man to build up Mountain Grove.  He is a young
man of push and energy, and is truly a self-made man.  E. J. Miller, 
who is twenty-eight years of age, is now running the store at Mountain
Grove, and has absolute control of the same.

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