Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Miller, Alexander 1845 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
HON. ALEXANDER MILLER of DaVoe, was born September 3rd, 1845, in Holmes county,

Ohio, where he lived until he was twenty-five years of age. From there he went

to Cedar county, Iowa. In the fall of 1875 he went to Saline county, Missouri.

In the fall of that year he married Miss Emma McCellend of that county. To them

have been born six children, viz: John L., Samuel H., Sarah F., William H.,

James A., and Edna N., who are now all residents of Faulk county.



    He resided in Missouri until the fall of 1882 when he moved to Northville,

in Spink county and engaged in the livery business. In 1883 he came to this

county and proved up a preemption, then moved to his present location and took a

homestead. Mr. Miller is one of our most enterprising and prosperous citizens.

He is a practical farmer and a successful horseman. He has acquired one thousand

nine hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, six hundred acres of which are

under cultivation, while the remainder is enclosed for pasturing. He has made

the breeding of Percheron horses a specialty. For fifteen years he has had on an

average, one hundred head and often as many as one hundred thirty. Has much of

the best registered and graded stock in the north-west and keeps from

twenty-five to seventy-five head of neat stock. He has all necessary machinery,

a pleasant, delightful home and beautiful grove in which thousands of the

citizens of Faulk, Edmunds and Spink counties annually gather to attend the old

settlers' picnic.



    Four consecutive times he has been elected to the state legislature and is a

member of South Dakota's house of representatives at the present time. Mr.

Miller stands high in the confidence and respect of the community in which he

lives and his reputation both as a business man and a public servant is without

reproach.



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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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