"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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EDWARD MILLER, stock raiser and farmer, is one of the four children of
Andrew and Eliza (Rogers) Miller, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German
extraction. Edward was born in Carroll County, Ohio, April 6, 1839 and
was reared on a farm, and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to the
blacksmithing trade for the period of three years, and one year thereafter
emigrated to Indiana and settled in this township, where in company of
his brother, he put on sale 800 head of sheep, and then engaged in the 
saw milling business, having owned, in company with others, the first
potable saw mill in the county.
December 16, 1868, he married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Need
and a native of Carroll County, Ohio. After his marriage, Mr. Miller 
engaged in farming and now owns and controls 153 acres of excellent
land, in good cultivation, well improved, well stocked and well supplied
with farming implements. Mr. Miller has been Assessor of his township
for the past eight years, is a staunch Democrat in politics, and a much
valued citizen. He has been successful in life, and has a comfortable
and independent home, all of which has been acquired by his own unaided
energy and labor. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church.

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