BIOGRAPHIES:  Charles M. MILES, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Charles M. Miles, mill-wright, Pepin, was born at Castleton, Vt.,
February 23, 1822.  His father, Jonas Miles, was a native of Boston, of
English descent, and his mother, Sally (Bellus) Miles, was born in
Franklin county, Vt.  Mr. Miles removed with his parents to Fairfax,
Vt., in 1824, thence to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Hinckley, Ohio.  At
the age of sixteen years he began life for himself.  He attended
Charleston academy from 1840 to 1842, and while there made a special
study of surveying and mathematics.  April 25, 1841, he married Louisa
Greenleaf, and they had two children:  Junius J., born January 4, 1842,
who was fatally wounded at the battle of Corinth, and died October 31,
1862; and Marian J. (Mrs. M. Ingram, of Los Angeles, Cal.), born May 5,
1845.  Mrs. Miles died in February, 1849, and Mr. Miles afterward
married Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Sally (Carter) Ingalls, by whom he
had four children:  Merton M., born August 16, 1851, and died March 28,
1890; Louisa E. (Mrs. C. H. Sackett, Lincoln, Del.), born June 24,
1853; Lilly A., born March 13, 1864, died September 18, 1878; and
Atseba G. (Mrs. H. E. Mabey, Lake City, Minn.), born November 21, 1868.

The pursuit of business or pleasure has caused Mr. Miles to visit
nearly every state in the union, and he has changed his residence
successively to Snyder, Pa., 1849; to Pecatonica, Ill, in 1853; to
Pepin, Wis., in 1855; to Millersburg, Ill., in 1863; to Vineland, N.
J., in 1864; to Cedar Creek Hundred, Del., in 1865; to Fremont, Minn.,
in 1878.  From the last place he returned to Pepin in 1888 and there he
now resides.  Mr. Miles first visited Pepin in 1852, and in 1855 and
1856 built the first saw and grist-mill in Pepin county in section
nineteen, township twenty-three, range fourteen, and in 1857 built a
saw-mill for Joseph Porter on Bogus creek, Pepin township.  IN 1853 he
bought forty acres of land on section thirty, township twenty-three,
range fifteen, which is now included in the village of Pepin.  Mr.
Miles has invented several useful improvements in milling machinery,
among others a patent wheat heater, in the manufacture of which he is
now engaged.  The first mill above mentioned was built at the earnest
solicitation of settlers.  Grists were brought more than thirty miles
to be ground at this mill, customers sometimes waiting two or three
days to obtain their flour before returning home.  In politics Mr.
Miles is a prohibitionist; in religion a Unitarian.  He is a member of
the I. O. O. F. and Masonic fraternities.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 475.


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