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Source:
1795
History of
Clermont County, Ohio

with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
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Prominent Men and Pioneers
Philadelphia:
Louis H. Everts
Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia
1880

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Julia A. D. Miller
& Samuel Miller


Residence of
Samuel Miller,
Franklin Tp.,
Clermont Co., Ohio``

SAMUEL MILLERJohn Miller, one of the pioneers of Clermont County, emigrated from Pennsylvania about the beginning of the present century, and settled near Felicity, where he purchased large tracts of land.  His wife, Susan, was born Sept. 14, 1792, and died Nov. 11, 1876.  She has children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren living to the number of one hundred and sixty-four.  One of his children was George Miller, born Oct. 14, 1877, and who came to Ohio when a boy with his parents.  He married, Aug. 14, 1808, Susan Moyers, in Bracken Co., Ky., daughter of Philip Moyers, born in York Co., Pa., and who died May 28, 1869.  His wife was the youngest of her family; her mother died when she was six years old, and her father never married again, but himself reared his large family of children and saw them comfortably settled in life.  The children of John Miller were John; Martin; George; Henry; Joseph, a River captain for many years in the steamboat trade; Susie, married to John McGraw; Katie, married to John Harman; Sallie, married to Arthur Fee; Polly, married to George Reddick; and ____ ____, to Nathaniel Bagby.  To George and Susan (Moyers) Miller were born the following children: Polly, married to Zadock Watson; William; Arthur (deceased); Walter Griffith; Eliza, married to Isaac Armacost; Josiah; Samuel; Melissa, married to James Metzgar; George (deceased); Melinda W., married to James Watson; John (deceased); Rebecca W., married to John Cook; and four who died in infancy.  Samuel Miller, one of the above: was born Oct. 27, 1820, brought up on his father's farm and educated at the district schools.  He was married .March 25, 1'847, by Rev. Zachariah Wharton, to Miss Julia Ann Gue, daughter of George and Nancy (Daughters) Gue, who was born Nov. 25, 1820.  Her parents were early emigrants from Maryland to Kentucky, where they resided about a year and then removed to near Neville, in this county.  Her mother was a sister of the late Turpin Daughters, of Neville, one of the leading business men of Clermont for many years.  The Millers, originally of German extraction, were among the early settlers who laid the foundation of Clermont's future prosperity.  To Samuel and Julia Ann (Gue) Miller have been born the following children: Kilby Daughters, born Feb. 21, 1848, and married Mar. 18,1877, by Rev. James Black, to Laura Howell; John Lawson, born May 23, 1849, and died aged fourteen months; George Austin and Arthur Clayton, twins, born June 25, 1821, of whom the latter died in his fifth year, and the former was married in March, 1876, by Rev. S. S. Newhouse, to Susannah Preble; James Wesley, born Oct. 23, 1853, and married by Rev. J. P. Daugherty, in April, 1876, to Anna McMurchy, of Felicity; Emma Belle, born Oct. 25, 1855, and married in October, 1877, to Hanson Day, by Rev. S. S. Newhouse; and William Walter, born July 25, 1859.  Of the above, John Lawson died Aug. 17, 1850, aged fourteen months and twenty-five days, and Arthur Clayton died July 8, 1856, aged five years and twelve days; Kilby D. and George Austin live near Point Pleasant; James Wesley, near Felicity; and Emma Belle Day, at Mount Orab, Brown Co., Ohio.
     Samuel Miller has a fine farm of one hundred and twenty-two acres, including part of his father's homestead, and, on it is a neat residence, one of the first fine dwellings erected in Franklin township.  Mr. Miller was the second man in the township to raise tobacco, and has been largely engaged in its culture since 1842, hauling in the first few years his crops to Augusta, Ky., to be prised.  He is a Republican in politics, and warmly sustained the war for the suppression of the Rebellion.  He belongs with his family to the Christian Church at Mount Pleasant, to which he is a liberal contributor, and for thirty-eight years has been a church member, zealous and consistent, during thirty of which he has held the office of deacon.  He has frequently served on the township school board, and been closely identified with the Sunday-schools.  While a general farmer he makes a specialty of tobacco and fruits, in the culture of which he is very prominent and successful.  He is a man of most exemplary character, and possesses in the fullest degree the . esteem and confidence of the community.
     To George and Nancy Gue were born the following children: Julia Ann Gue, John Wesley Gue, Elizabeth H. (married to Isaac Bingham), and James Daughters GueGeorge Gue dying, his widow married Mr. Badgley, by whom she had two children, George W: and J. F. Badgely.
     Mr. Miller's beautiful home, one of the finest in Franklin township, commands a splendid view of the Ohio River, and is surrounded with all the comforts and conveniences to make it one of the pleasantest in Clermont.  He began life with no capital but his own industry and resolute will, but by untiring energy and good business tact, assisted by his good wife, a model housekeeper, he has reared for himself an honorable name and secured one of the best farms and houses in Clermont.
   

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