Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Pages 1198 - 199

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Pages 1074 - 1076

GEORGE W. MILLER.     One of the best small trading communities of Vinton County is the Village of Orland in Swan Township.  To a large degree the commercial enterprise of the village has been supplied by George W. Miller, whose large stock of general merchandise has been drawn upon to supply the needs of the surrounding community for a number of years.  Mr. Miller is a merchant who understands his business and also the people with whom he deals, and is one of the most highly regarded men of Vinton County.
     It was in 1901 that he established himself in business at Orland, and five years ago he moved his stock into a handsome new store building 20x55 feet.  He carries a full line of all wares required by the country trade, and both buys and sells intelligently and furnishes an important service.   He acquired his early commercial experience as a clerk at Wellston.  For more than eight years while living in Swan Township Mr. Miller was a carrier on one of the rural mail routes.
     George W. Miller was born Apr. 11, 1882, near Wilkesville on Yankee Street in Vinton County.  This county has been his home most of his life and he acquired his education at McArthur, Wilkesville and at Winchester.
     His parents are Isaac W. and Sarah A. (Boothe) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and a son of Beatty Miller.  Beatty Miller married in Pennsylvania, and when his son Isaac was quite young moved to Ohio, locating in the Wilkesville community of Vinton County, where he and his wife spent the rest of their days. He was past eighty and she past ninety-four when they died.  Their influence went to promote the activities of the local Presbyterian Church and in politics he was a republican.
     Isaac W. Miller is one of five sons and two daughters, and all of them except Isaac, who is the youngest, were soldiers in the Civil War.  Most of these children are still living.  Isaac W. Miller grew up in the Wilkesville community, attended school there, and met and married Sarah A. Boothe.  She was born in Ohio and belonged to an old Ohio family of pioneers in Vinton County.  Since their marriage Isaac W. Miller and wife spent most of their years in Vinton County, where he was an active farmer and for some years a merchant and hotel proprietor.  He is now living retired at Wilkesville at the age of seventy eight, while his wife is seventy-four.  Both have continued the allegiance of their respective families by membership in the Presbyterian Church, and as a republican he has been honored several times by local office.  The children of Isaac W. Miller and wife are: Thomas S., who is now in business at Columbus and has three children; Jennie A., wife of N. A. Vaughan, a furniture dealer and undertaker at Adelphia, and they have five children: Mamie B. is the wife of Charles Ogden, who has a large 500-aere farm and is principally engaged in stock raising at Dyesville in Meigs County, Ohio, and their family consists of two sons; Catherine A. is the wife of Charles A. Wells, their son Brown W. is head chemist for the Buckeye Steel Castings Company at Columbus; Elizabeth first married Raulson Davidson of Columbus, who died leaving a son and daughter, and she is now the wife of Pearson Ranck, and still lives at Columbus.
     George W. Miller was married in Vinton County to Miss Emma L. Cherry.  She was born in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1880 and after completing a good education became a teacher and taught for about half a dozen years before her marriage in Falls and Starr townships of her native county.  Her parents were Samuel and Catherine (Wright) Cherry.  Her father was born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1835, but when a boy went to Hocking County and grew up in Washington Township, where his parents Moses and Sarah (Miller) Cherry had established their home on a farm and where they spent the rest of their years, passing away when about fourscore.  Moses Cherry was a whig and republican, and he and his wife active Presbyterians.  Samuel Cherry grew up in Hocking County, and married there Miss Wright, who was born in Hocking County in 1836.  They had a long and happy married companionship of forty years before Samuel Cherry died in 1901.  His widow passed away in 1912.  They became members of the United Presbyterian Church, and he served as a church official and in politics was a republican until about 1873, after which he affiliated with the democratic party.  Samuel and Catherine Cherry had the following children: Dr. T. M. Cherry, a physician at Norton, Virginia, who has a family of one son and four daughters; Joseph S., whose home is at Linden Heights, Ohio, and who has five children; Jennie is the wife of Ephraim Lane, of Logan, Ohio, and they have one son and one daughter; Moses R. is unmarried and still occupies the old homestead in Washington Township of Hocking County; Marie is the wife of Albert Armstrong, who lives at Union Furnace, Ohio, and they have two sons and two daughters.
     Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of three children: Thelma K., now in the sixth grade of the public school; Phalice G. in the fourth grade; and Ivan W.  The parents of these children are both active members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically Mr. Miller has always associated with the republicans, and believes heartily in the principles of that party.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1157

JACKSON COUNTY, O.
CAPT. OLIVER S. MILLER.     One of the honored old citizens of the Hanging Rock Region who deserves mention in this work was the late Captain Oliver S. Miller, representing one of the old families, himself a soldier of the Civil war, and for many years identified with business affairs in Jackson County.
    Capt. Oliver S. Miller was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, July 28, 1837, a son of James H. C. Miller and the latter's first wife, Calista (Story) Miller.  James H. C. Miller was born in Massachusetts in 1800, the son of Samuel Miller, a pioneer of Ontario County, New York, where the last years of his life were spent.  James H. C. Miller acquired a good education, and when a young man went South, taught school and studied dentistry and surgery.  He was a man of parts and education, and a great traveler.  He went to South America in the early days, and there participated in the revolution against Spain and held the rank of surgeon in the troops led by General Bolivar.  Returning to the United States in 1836, Doctor Miller located in Ohio in Mahoning County, practiced medicine there for a time, but in 1838 moved to Jackson County and settled in Bloomfield Township.  Somewhat later he moved to the Town of Jackson, opened a drug store, and was also identified with the iron industry.  During the Civil war he went west to Nebraska, lived several years in that state, and then returned to Jackson, where he lived until death.
     Captain Miller was brought to Jackson County in infancy, was reared and educated there, and one of his first experiences in young manhood was as clerk in his father's drug store.  In 1863 he assisted in recruiting Company F for the 129th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was given a commission as captain in the company.  He saw seven months of active service, and on receiving his honorable discharge returned home.  In 1870 Captain Miller engaged in the mercantile business at Jackson, and for about twenty-five years was known to the community as a merchant.  After that he lived retired until his death on July 22, 1914.
     Captain Miller married Phoebe Ann Steele.  She was born at Caldwell, New Jersey, Jan. 16, 1837.  Her father, Lot Chester Steele, was born in the same locality in 1808, was reared and educated there, and early learned the trade of shoemaker.  In 1838 Mr. Steele went west to Jackson, Michigan, lived there until 1848, and then came to Jackson for a number of years.  Some time before the Civil war he was that early time nearly all boots and shoes were made to order and all by hand work, shoemaking machinery having not yet been introduced to any extent.  Mr. Steele set up a shop and continued in business in Jackson for a number of years.  Some time before the Civil War he was  appointed to the office of postmaster, served eight years in that position, was then in the grocery business a few years, after which he lived retired until his death at the age of fifty-eight.  Mr. Steele married Catherine Maria Dodd, who was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, and died at Jackson, Ohio, in her eighty-eighth year.  She was the mother of two daughters: Josephine E., who married James Dyer, and both are now deceased.  Mrs. Miller, the other daughter, was a teacher of music before her marriage.  She and her only daughter now occupy the old home on Broadway Street in Jackson.  The daughter, Miss Clara, has inherited her mother's musical talent and is also a teacher in that art.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1115

Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Pages 1107 - 1109