Bio: Miller, J. C. (History - 1848)

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Surnames: MILLER HONEYWELL SMITH

----Source: 1891 Bio. Hist. Of Clark Jackson Co., Wisconsin, pg. 280:

John Charles MILLER, of section 27, Warner Township, Clark County, was born in Renfrew County, Ontario, Jan 2, 1848, the son of John Miller (deceased), a native of England. The latter, a farmer and lumberman by occupation, came with his parents to Ontario when a boy. He spent the first eighteen years thereafter on a farm, and then went to Warren County, Pennsylvania, where he spent ten years in the woods and saw mills. In 1876 he came to this county, locating on his present farm, where he has also been engaged in lumbering ever since. He farms to raise feed for his stock and teams which he employs in the camps during the winters. The previous winter he ran two camps, but this winter, 1890-91, he has only one, employing about thirty men, besides six four horse teams, sprinkler team, tote team and two or three yoke of cattle. He owns in all about 240 acres of land, 110 of which is cleared. He also owns a one-half interest in lot 1, city of Greenwood, which consists of forty-five acres, and also a house and lot in the latter place. When he left his father, Mr. Miller was twenty-four years old, and had only $15 in money, and he has since risen to his present position by hard work and good management.
He was married September 26, 1872, to Elizabeth, daughter of John Honeywell, deceased.

Almira Elizabeth Honeywell Miller
Born Nov. 6, 1858 in Renfrew Canada and migrated to Warren, PA at age 18 eventually settling on a farm a mile north of Greenwood, Clark Co., WI. After marrying John Charles Miller, they relocated in Seattle, WA in 1899 and she died there during Nov., 1918. (Photo provided by Greenwood, WI Public Library)

They have six children: Olive T., Maud M., Lynn H., Gertrude, Bessie B., and Smith. Mr. Miller held the office of Town Treasurer five years, and was also Director of the School Board one term. Religiously, he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically a Prohibitionist.

He remodeled his house in 1887, and he now owns a fine two story frame, 24 x 28 feet, with a wing 18 x 22, and another addition 16 x 26 feet. He has two fine barns, one 36 x 46 feet, twenty-foot posts, and the other 36 x 66 feet, eighteen-foot posts.