TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: MILLER, Michael J.
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History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Warner, Beers & Co., 1884

        MICHAEL J. MILLER, member of the Zoar Society, was born April 16,
1807, son of John Miller, who in 1817 emigrated from Wurtemberg, Germany,
with his family to America with the colony of Separatists. They settled in
this township, then a vast wilderness. John Miller was a blacksmith and
followed his trade for a number of years at Zoar, until he was elected a
Trustee of the society. He died in 1832, of cholera, and his widow in 1850.
Their three children were Michael J., Anna Maria and Rosanna. Michael J.,
in his younger days, was a herder of cattle on the lands of the society. He
was married, in February, 1832, to Lucy, daughter of George Ackermann, a
former Trustee of the society. Their one child died in infancy, and Mrs.
Miller followed it to the grave in August, 1833. Mr. Miller was again
married in 1836, to Mrs. (Border) Linderman, who by her former marriage had
one son, who died in the army. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller were born three
children, to of whom, Louisa and Joseph, are living. Louisa, who was the
widow of Jacob Brymier, is the wife of William Lipps; by her first marriage
she had one child -David Brymier, Principal of the Zoar Schools. Joseph was
born April 11, 1840. He remained at Zoar till 1861, when he worked for the
Society of Economites, remaining with them nine years and six months. He
was married, May 2, 1867, to Maggie Shillkopf, and has two children -Emma
J. and Josephine. He owns a fine garden and hot house near Bolivar, and is
also foreman in the Bolivar Planing Mill, and one of that village's
enterprising citizens. Michael J. Miller in early life followed milling,
carpentering, engineering and other avocations, and is now retired from
active work, a venerable and highly esteemed member of the Zoar Society.




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