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BENTON
MILLER. The subject of this sketch was born in
Sardis, Monroe county, Ohio. December 26, 1838.
He lived in his birthpalce until he was sixteen years of
age, when his parents moved to Missouri and settled in what
is now Colfax township, Daviess county, in 1855. In
1861 he enlisted and served six months in the home guards,
and in February, 1862, enlisted in Company A, First Missouri
Cavalry Militia, in which he served during the war. In
April, 1863, he was promoted from orderly sergeant to first
lieutenant, and for the last eighteen months he was in the
service, had command of his company. He participated
in all the engagements against General Joe Shelby in
his raids if Missouri in 1863, also in the fight during
General Sterling Price's raids in this state and Kansas
during the fall of 1864, and many skirmishes of less note
with the guerrillas under Quantrell and Anderson.
With his company, was mustered out at St. Louis on the 11th
of February, 1865, and returned to the old homestead in
Daviess county. Remaining upon the farm until the
following October, he came to Gallatin and engaged in
general merchandizing with his brother Michael, under
the name of Miller & Brother, continuing the
business until the fall of 1868, when he retired from the
firm. In March, 1869, he again embarked in the
mercantile business, and was so engaged until Feb. 1, 1875,
when he once more retired and gave his attention to the
building of a brick business house, which is one of the most
complete in fixtures and appointments in Gallatin.
During the winters of 1875 and 1876, Mr. Miller
was collector of taxes for Union township, and has always
been identified with those who have worked for the best
interests of Gallatin and of Daviess county. He has
been a generous and willing helper in all worthy enterprises
of whatsoever character, to aid in the upbuilding up of
Gallatin and the county.
Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss
Mattie a. Robinson, on Feb. 22d, 1866, near Hickman's
Mills, Jackson County, Missouri. They have three
children: namely, Norman B., Virgil G., and Ida B.;
all born in Gallatin.
Source: The History of Daviess County, Missouri - Publ.
Kansas City, Mo - Birdsall & Dean - 1882 - Page 553 |
JAMES W.
MILLER was born near Staunton, Augusta county,
Virginia, May 14, 1823, where he lived with his parents,
George M. and Margaret A. Miller, until his fourteenth
year. He received a common school education, having
attended the early subscription schools of his native
county. Leaving home in 1836, he went to Lexington,
Rockbridge county, Virginia, where he was employed as a
clerk in the store of Moore & McCue remaining with
them until 1840 when he was employed in the same capacity by
Samuel B. Finley, of the same place. From
Lexington he went to Charlottsville, Virginia, in 1842 and
accepted a situation as clerk in the store of John
Cochran, remaining until 1843, when he returned to
Augusta county and was employed by Thomas McCorkle,
of Greenville, where he remained until 1847, then became
associated with his employer as a partner, at Anthony's
Creek, Greenbrier county, Virginia, under the firm named of
McCorkle & Miller. Retiring from the firm in
1848, he went to HIllsborough, Pocahontas county, same
State, where he established himself in the mercantile
business and continued there until 1854, when he migrated to
Missouri, and settled upon a farm in what is now Jamesport
township, this county. In 1861 he cast his lot with
the Confederacy, enlisting in the Missouri State Guards,
under General William Y. Slack, Captain John McNeel,
and serving during the war in the Trans-Mississippi
department, General Sterling Price commanding.
At the conclusion of hostilities he returned to Daviess
county and, from that time up to 1877, gave his entire
attention to farm pursuits, but since the latter date has
been employed by different firms in Gallatin as a salesman,
having held his present situation with the house of W. H.
Etter since 1879. Although thus employed, he
continues to carry on farming in connection therewith.
Mr. Miller and Miss Harriet P. Allen, of
Botetourt county, Virginia, were united in marriage on the
7th of November, 1847. They have six children; namely,
George, a farmer in this county; Caroline,
wife of George Lockridge of this county; Janette,
wife of George McCartney of this county; and
Maggie and Ella, are members of the Old School
Presbyterian Church, of Bethel. Mr. Miller is a
member of Jamesport Lodge No. 201, A. F. & A. M., and is a
member of the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of Jefferson,
Texas.
Source: The History of Daviess County, Missouri - Publ.
Kansas City, Mo - Birdsall & Dean - 1882 - Page 552 |
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