BIO:  Samuel R. Miller, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Manchester Township, Pg 141

SAMUEL R. MILLER was born in Conewago Township, September 13, 1834.  His parents 
were Samuel and Lydia Ann (Rudy) Miller, of York County and of English and German 
descent.  They had seven children – four sons and three daughters – of whom 
Samuel R. is the third child and second son.  He was brought up on a farm, but 
also worked at milling and carpentering.  His education he received at the common 
schools. At the outbreak of the late war, he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, a three-months’ regiment.  On his return home from the 
service he re-enlisted on the twenty-fourth of August, 1861, in Company E, 
Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry for three years.  He was in the 
battles of Winchester, Locust Grove, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold 
Harbor and front of Petersburg.  In June, 1863, he was captured at Winchester, 
and for twenty-one days he was a prisoner at Belle Isle, and Libby prison; he 
jumped his parole, and after a French furlough, returned to his regiment.  June 
23, 1864, he was captured again in front of Petersburg, held in different 
prisons, including Andersonville, where he was kept until Sherman’s army 
appeared.  From there he was taken to other prisons:  Blackshear, Thomasville, 
Albany (Ga.), and on Christmas, 1864, back to Andersonville again.  April 8, 
1865, he left Andersonville for Albany again, marched seventy-two miles to 
Thomasville, then to Baldwin, where he was finally released, and at the end of 
two weeks started home, where he arrived June 15, 1865, after an absence of 
nearly four years.  In 1866 he started for Ohio, but stopped a few months at 
Goshen, Ind., where he remained peddling pumps until the following spring, when 
he went to Ohio, where he farmed a few months, and then returned home.  He was 
married in December, 1872, at York, to Rebecca Siffert.  They have three 
children:  Laura Jane, Edward and an infant.  They settled at Round Town, about 
three and one-half miles northwest of York, in 1880.  Mr. Miller is a Republican, 
was constable in 1875 and 1876, and was also tax collector for township and 
school at the same time.