George A. Miller Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 949-950

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GEORGE A. MILLER. Among those who have made a success of the dairy 
business, after a failure of general farming and the raising of the 
cereals, is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this 
article, and who now resides on a fine dairy and stock farm in section 
22, in Eagle township, Brule county, South Dakota. Our subject is of 
Pennsylvania Dutch extraction and was born in Darke county, Ohio, 
January 21, 1853. He and his older sister were the only children born 
to David and Mary (Copp) Miller. His mother died when our subject was 
an infant and his father re-married, and to the second union six 
children were born. His father's death occurred in 1895. From Ohio the 
family removed to Indiana, where our subject taught about sixteen terms 
of school. In 1885 he went to Dakota, trading Indiana property for 
land, stock and improvements, and after locating in Dakota he taught 
school three winters. He engaged in wheat raising for six or seven 
years, but without success, and then began stock raising, which has 
placed the farm on a paying basis, and Mr. Miller now has a fine herd 
of young stock and dairy cows. He is a patron of the Eagle Co-operative 
Creamery and is also a shareholder in the same. He owns three hundred 
and twenty acres of land, cultivates about one hundred and forty acres 
and has an abundant supply of good water for his stock, making it 
admirably adapted to the dairy and stock raising business. 

Our subject was married in 1883 to Miss Alice Holem. Mrs. Miller is of 
Pennsylvania Dutch descent and was born in Indiana, October 7, 1860. 
Three sons and two daughters have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Miller and are named as follows: Mabel G., Lorie F., Georgie A., David 
P. and Leon H. Mr. Miller is a Republican, favors prohibition and 
opposes equal suffrage. He is a citizen who has made himself known in 
Brule county for his upright dealings and industry, adding much to the 
farming interests of his locality.