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PICTORIAL & BIOGRAPHICAL
HISTORY OF
INDIANAPOLIS & MARION CO.,
INDIANA
Published:
Chicago
Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers,
1893
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GEORGE
W. MILLER is successfully engaged in the manufacture
of carriages, wagons, etc., and has been established in this
line of work since 1870 and has continued the same ever
since. At the present time the principle manufactures
which he turns out are delivery wagons, and he is also
extensively engaged in a general repair work. He owes
his nativity to Wayne County, Ind., where he was born June
14, 1827, to Isaac and Mary (Witter) Miller natives
of the Keystone State. The father was reared in
Virginia, however, but in 1826 removed to Wayne County,
Ind., where he purchased a farm and resided on and tilled
the same until his death, which occurred in 1862, his widow
surviving him two years. George W. Miller spent
his boyhood and early manhood on the old home farm in
Indiana and like the majority of the farmers' boys of his
day his education was limited to the common schools, but he
improved his opportunities and made fair progress in his
studies. At the age of twenty-one he began learning
the carriage maker's trade at Cambridge City, where he also
later engaged in business for himself. Upon leaving
that place he went to Dublin, Ind., where he engaged in the
manufacture of carriages, and during Pierce's
administration acted in the capacity of postmaster of that
place. When the war opened he enlisted in Company C,
Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry (August 8, 1862),
and served until the close, receiving his discharge at
Indianapolis, June 28, 1865, and being mustered out as
corporal of his company. He is a member of the G. A>
R., and since 1851 has been a member of the I. O. O. F.
Meridian Lodge No. 480 in which order he has passed all the
chairs. He was married in 1854 to Miss Sarah E.
Barrett, a native of Henry Co., Ind., and a daughter of
Aquilla and Elizabeth (Mellett) Barrett. To the
union of Mr. and Mrs. Miller two children have been
given, William B. and Mary L., both of whom
are deceased. Mary became the wife of Edward
Dickinson. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have long
been in communion with the Methodist Episcopal Church and
are among its most active workers. Mr. Miller
is one of its trustees and is a man whose character as a
business man is above reproach. He is kind and
considerate in his family, as faithful friend, an
accommodating neighbor and an upright, law abiding citizen,
an honor to his family and to the State which gave him birth
in which his life has been spent.
Source: Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs - Indianapolis
and Marion County, Indiana - Publ. Chicago - Goodspeed
Brothers, Publishers - 1893 - Page 174 |
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