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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 586-587]

    EDWARD MILLER Secretary of the Citizen's Life Association of Cherokee,
    Iowa, and ex-county recorder, is a man well known and universally
    respected throughout Cherokee County, as well as over a broad expanse
    of country in which life assurance policies of the company are found.
    His history in this county should here be prefaced by something con-
    cerning his earlier life.  He was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania,
    May 12, 1850, and is the sixth of a family of eleven children, ten sons
    and one daughter.  His father, M. G. MILLER, also a native of Penn-
    sylvania, was a farmer and merchant by occupation.  He married ELIZA-
    BETH RIDER, a native of the same State, and a daughter of JACOB RIDER,
    of German ancestry.  The father is still living, but the mother passed
    from the scenes of this life in 1873.  M. G. MILLER is a resident of
    Cedar County, Iowa, whither he removed when EDWARD was one year old.
    In that county our subject grew to manhood, receiving a liberal common-
    school education.  He remained on his father's farm until 1873, when
    he decided to come to Cherokee County.  He carried this plan into exe-
    cution, and followed agricultural pursuits until 1880, when he was
    nominated by the Republican party for the office of county recorder
    of Cherokee County, to which position he was elected by a majority of
    100 votes.  He served a term of two years and was re-elected, making
    his term in all four years.  Upon his retirement from the office which
    he had so acceptably filled,  Mr. MILLER became a member of the
    Citizens' Life Association of Cherokee, which was organized in 1885.
    He was made its secretary, a position which he still fills with much
    credit to himself.  Mr. MILLER was married in 1876 to Miss BELLE STONE,
    a daughter of JAMES STONE.  The result of this union was two children:
    ARETAS H. and ORVILLE GUY.  Mrs. MILLER was called from earth and the
    happy surroundings of her home and family in 1884.  She was a devoted
    mother and a faithful wife, who had many friends to join her family in
    sorrow for her death.  Mr. MILLER is a member of the Methodist Epis-
    copal Church, of which he is recording steward and chorister.  He is
    an honored member of Speculative Lodge, No. 307, A.F. & A.M.; of
    Burning Bush Chapter, No. 90, R.A.M., and of the Knights of Pythias.
    He owns a tasty residence in the Addition, with fine surroundings.
    No man in the county stands higher in point of true moral worth than
    does Mr. MILLER, of whom we have heard many deserving compliments
    while gathering the data for this brief review of his life.


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