BIO: David Miller, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER L. 

                           MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. 

500  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  DAVID MILLER, farmer, was born in Lancaster County, September 18, 
1825.  He is the third son of David, Sr., and Mary (Eshelman) Miller, 
who moved to Cumberland County from Lancaster in 1833.  He attended the 
country schools of the day, followed farming with his father, and 
engaged for many years in the nursery business on the large farm at the 
Middlesex Station.  He married Elizabeth Stouffer, a lady of 
refinement, and the daughter of Jacob Stouffer, of Franklin County, 
Penn.  About the same time, Mr. Stouffer purchased the Middlesex estate 
from the Blaine and Penrose heirs.  He was for a time in partnership 
with Mr. Stouffer in operating the old paper-mill at that place, and in 
the lime-burning and coal business.  Mr. Stouffer's son Benjamin had 
supervision of the flour-mill.  A financial reverse crippled this 
estate; some branches of its business were closed, while the rest 
passed into other hands.  Mr. Miller is a man of large reading and 
judgment, and fond of books, but with little time to cultivate his 
taste in that direction.  His family consists of two sons and three 
daughters.  He is now living on and has charge of the "Indian Farm" for 
the training in agriculture of the Indian youths at the training 
school, Carlisle.  The farm lies just at the edge of the village of 
Middlesex.