BIO:  Jacob E. MILLER, Mountpleasant Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 488

JACOB E. MILLER, farmer, carpenter and undertaker, Bonneauville, was born August 
23, 1828, in Straban Township, Adams Co., Penn., son of Peter Miller, a native 
of Hamiltonban Township, this county, who was a potter and farmer by occupation, 
and a Democrat in politics.  He married Elizabeth Kemp, and had six children:  
Catharine, who died aged ten years; Mathias (deceased, aged twenty), Mrs. Mary 
Bricher (deceased), Jacob E., Mrs. Elizabeth Gitt, Peter, Jr.  Peter Miller, 
Sr., died in Mountpleasant Township, and his wife in Oxford Township, this 
county.  Great-grandfather Miller came from Germany.  Jacob E. Miller was 
educated in the common schools, and in early life learned carpentering, which he 
has followed more or less all his life.  Since 1865 he has also been an 
undertaker.  He was married, in Conowago, this county, to Miss Catharine, 
daughter of Henry Weaver, who has borne him six children, two of whom are 
living:  John H. and Jacob F.  Mr. and Mrs. Jacob E. Miller are members of the 
Catholic Church.  Politically our subject has been identified with the National 
Greenback party; is no office-seeker, and votes for the best man.  During the 
late civil war he responded to the nine months’ call; was elected captain of 
Company G, One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and 
filled the office till his term expired, and with his regiment participated in 
various engagements.