Leroy D. Miller Biography


	This biography appears on pages 707-708 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LEROY D. MILLER, who is engaged in the livery, hack and transfer 
business in Sioux Falls, also conducting an auxiliary undertaking 
department, is a native of the city of St. Joseph, Missouri, where he 
was born on the 24th of February, 1869, being a son of William and 
Martha (Hariman) Miller. When he was a child of three years his father 
died, and his mother subsequently became the wife of Joseph N. 
Davenport, and when the subject was three years old he accompanied them 
on their removal to what is now South Dakota, the family locating in 
Minnehaha county, where Mr. Davenport engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
Mr. Davenport is dead, but his widow is still living, making her home 
in California.  

	The subject was reared on the homestead farm of his-stepfather 
and secured such educational advantages as were afforded in the public 
schools of the locality. At the age of twenty three years he engaged in 
buying grain for the Peavey Elevator Company, of Farmer, South Dakota, 
and continued to be thus employed for a period of three years, at the 
expiration of which he located in Montrose, McCook county, where he was 
engaged in the livery business for two years, being thereafter 
identified with agricultural pursuits, in Minnehaha county, for four 
years. In 1899 he located in Sioux Falls and established himself in the 
livery business, while in August, 1901, he established in connection a 
hack and general transfer line, and in 1903 he still further expanded 
the scope of his enterprise by the addition of an undertaking 
department. His equipment throughout is of the best order, including 
about thirty-eight horses and a full complement of modern vehicles for 
all purposes, and he controls a large and representative business, 
showing the result of his own energy and good management. Mr. Miller is 
a staunch advocate of the principles of the Republican party and 
fraternally is identified with the Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, being affiliated with Sioux Falls Lodge, No. 262.  

	On the 28th of December, 1893, Mr. Miller was united in marriage 
to Miss Minnie C. Roney, of Decorah, Iowa, and they have two daughters, 
Ethel A. and M. Blanche.