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Removed to Boalsburg, Centre Co, Pa.
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Said to be of Dauphin County, Pa
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Nov 1841 is given in 1900 census.
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Almost as soon as he turned 21, Amon Miller set up his own home. He homesteaded 160 acres of land adjoining his father's land. According to the Homestead Application on file at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Amon first settled on the land in September of 1889. By the time he had filed a "Homestead Affidavit" in February 1890, he had already built a dwelling on the property. Amon established his actual residency on the property in March 1890 and set about making improvements to his homestead. By the time he had fulfilled the five years of residency on the property he had a frame house, a smoke house, a corn crib, 3 stables and had dug a well for water.
There appears to have been conflicting patents filed for 40 acres of the land. Amon Miller, Sr. wrote letters to the congressman from their district explaining what had happened. It took until 1913 to get everything straightened out but Amon Miller, Jr. received a clear title to his land.
In 1899, Amon Miller sold all of the "merchantable timber" on the 160 acres to S.J. Manning for $356.80. Sometime before 1898 Amon & Mary moved to Mississippi. In Dec 1898 they bought two lots in the little village of Bullis near McHenry in Harrison County.
The 1900 census said Amon Miller was working as a log hauler. It also said Mary was the mother of four children and four of them were still living. However, there were no children listed in their household. In 1910, the census said she was the mother of 4 children but none were living when there was a 6 year old John Miller in their household, listed as "son." (The Federal Censuses are known to be full of errors.) In Mississippi, Amon Francis Marion Miller was referred to as "F.M." or Francis M." Miller. Upon arriving in Mississippi the Millers bought four lots in the town of McHenry.They sold these lots in Aug 1903 for $600. Then in Oct 1904, they paid $450 cash for 3 lots in the Standard Land Company's Addition to the town of Gulfport. By 1910, he was listed on the census as a "charcoal burner." Gulfport is said to have been an unhealthy place to live and apparently Mary and her son John did not survive long after 1910. Although no death certificates are on file in Mississippi for either of them, by 1913, Amon Miller had returned to Covington Co., Ala.
In the early 1930s Amon mortgaged his farm, said to have been 260 acres at that time. He was unable to repay the loan and lost the farm. The family moved to near Clarksville in Calhoun Co., Fla. about 1936. By that time he ws already weak with a "lung condition." He contracted measles which "settled on his weakened lungs," causing his death.
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they owned a farm about three miles out of Hardinsburg, Ky.
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Hardware Clerk
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Dry goods clerk.
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Wallace is given as the last name in files at the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Peru Chronicle, May 13, 1903, in obit of Milton Shirk: In the management of his mercantile interests Mr. Shirk exhibited great wisdom in the selection of his employees. He was rarely mistaken in his estimate of the honesty and capacity of a boy. His confidences were seldom or never misplaced. Among the boys whom his intuitive judgment selected was George C. Miller, who entered his store in 1862, was trained in all the departments and details of the business and entrusted with responsibility. In 1873 he was admitted to a partnership and in a few years became manager of the store. His success as a managing merchant is due to the impression made on his youthful mind by the counsel, example and sympathy of his employer.
Russel M Seeds, ED. History of the Republican Party of Indiana. (Indianapolis: The Indiana History Company, 1899) , "The Indiana Legislature, Sixty First Session, 1899", Page 384. George C. Miller, Miami and Howard counties. Hon. George C. Miller is a prominent merchant of Peru, Indiana. Mr. Miller was born January 2, 1845, the son of John S Miller, also a merchant of Peru. His mothers' maiden name was Mary A. Long, a native of the State of Delaware. Mr. Miller was educated in the Peru High School, and was married to Ella Leebrick, of Dublin Indiana, in 1870. He has devoted his entire life to mercantile pursuits, and has given very little attention to party politics, and has never held a political office until his election to the Senate.
Lake Maxinkuckee: Its Intrigue, History & Genealogy. Culver, Marshall, Indiana. http://www.maxinkuckee.history.pasttracker.com/lots_1000_e_shore/1000_e_shore.htm
Address: 1000 East Shore Drive. Miller bought the lot in 1882, the same year George Jr was born. They came to the lake on the train to Culver and took a steamer over to a hotel near the lot and tented there for years. There was also a large boathouse on the property until 1964, when the cottage present there now was built.
Obit from same source as above: George Curtis Miller b 1845, d 1919, buried Mount Hope Cemetery Peru, Miami, Indiana. FORMER SENATOR DEAD. Peru, Indiana, Nov 4 - George C Miller, 74 years old, prominent in this city as a merchant for fifty years and lately an extensive land owner, died at his home here today from apoplexy, with which he suffered for two weeks. He was a native of Cass county but had lived in Peru since 1860. Her served in the legislative as senator from Howard and Miami counties two terms, was a city councilman two terms and a worker in the Methodist Church. Besides his wife, four sons survive. The funeral will be held at the Methodist Church Thursday afternoon.
http://incass-inmiami.org/miami/cemeteries/cemhistory.html Served on the board of directors of Mt. Hope Cemetery Association in 1913.
History of Miami County Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present...Pg 452. George C. Miller, of the mercantile firm of Shirk & Miller, was born in Cass County, Indiana, January 2, 1845, and is the eldest son of John L and Mary (Long) Miller, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Delaware. John L Miller was one of the pioneers of Cass County, and for some years carried on the mercantile business in Logansport, having been one of the first merchants of that city. He was a man widely and favorably known and departed this life about the year 1851. George C. Miller was raised in Cass and Miami Counties, received a practical education in the common schools, and began life for himself as salesman in the Mercantile house of Kilgore & Shirk, in Peru. He continued in the capacity of clerk until 1873, at which time he became a partner, and subsequently, 1880, when Mr. Kilgore retired he purchased that gentleman's interests, thus changing the style of the firm to that of Shirk and Miller, by which title it has since been known. To describe in detail the vast amount of business transacted by this house would far transcend the limits of this sketch, but suffice it to say, that in dry goods, hardware, agricultural implements, and in fact, all kinds of general merchandise, it is one of the largest and most successful mercantile firms in Northern Indiana, affording employment throughout the entire year to about twenty clerks and salesmen. Mr. Miller, as manager of the immense business, displays ability of a high order and a merchant thoroughly conversant with all the details of the trade, and, as a successful financier, he is perhaps, without a peer in the city of Peru. He is withal a very popular citizen, and his success in addition to his thorough knowledge of the business, is largely due to his industry and fidelity and that courtesy which marks the well bred gentleman. He was married March, 1870, to Miss Ella Leebrick, of Wayne County, Indiana, who has born him the following children, viz: Harry L, Charles W, Elbert S and George C Miller.
Arthur L Bodurtha, Ed. History of Miami County, Indiana, A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914) 473