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Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889 [page 411-412] WIREMAN MILLER, a native of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, was born April 20, 1845, and is a son of MARTIN G. and ELIZABETH (RIDER) MILLER, also natives of the State of Pennsylvania. The father still resides in Cedar County, Iowa, at the age of seventy-eight years; the mother passed to that better land March 8, 1877. they had born to them ten children, six of whom are living: JOHN R. (deceased), JACOB B., GEORGE W., JEREMIAH J., WILLIAM O., WIREMAN (the subject of this sketch), MAGGIE A. (deceased), DAVID (deceased), EDMOND and MARTIN H. Four of the brothers were in the late Rebel- lion. GEORGE W., in Company D, Eleventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, was wounded in the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, in October, 1862. JEREMIAH J., in Company D, Eleventh Iowa volunteer Infantry, served from the beginning until the close of the war. WILLIAM O. was wounded while in the service, and died in Virginia, February 14, 1864; he was a member of Company C, Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and received his fatal wound at Winchester. WIREMAN, the subject of this notice, was a member of Company D, Eleventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served one year; he fought in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, was in several skirmishes, and was with General SHERMAN on his famous march to the sea. From his seventh year Mr. MILLER was reared in Cedar County, Iowa, whi- ther his parents had removed form Pennsylvania. After the close of the war he resided in Cedar County until the spring of 1870, when he came to Cherokee County, where he had taken a homestead of eighty acres in Amherst Township in the fall of 1869. Mr. MILLER was united in marriage September 6, 1866, to Miss MAGGIE E. LEDMAN, daughter of WILLIAM and JANE (MORROW) LEDMAN, natives of Virginia and Ohio respectively. Mrs. MILLER was born in Middletown, Ohio, and came with her sister to Iowa in 1864. Six children have been born to Mr. MILLER and wife: HARRY L. was born January 23, 1868, and died July 7, 1889; ARTHUR J. was born October 9, 1873, and died January 23, 1877; LEWIS M. was born May 30, 1875; FLORENCE M. was born June 21, 1879, and died September 12, 1881; IDA B., born December 28, 1881, and ALVAH L. born November 15, 1884. In 1870 they came to Cherokee County, and located on Mr. MILLER'S claim, where he erected a small residence of cottonwood, which was the fourth house in the township. They have struggled through all the hardships and adver- sities incident to life in a new country, but their labors and influence have been widely felt. Mr. MILLER assisted in the organi- zation of the township, and was the first assessor of the township, an office which he had held continuously, excepting four years, until one year ago; he has also served as township clerk for several years, and has been president of the school board for eight years; he is the present township treasurer, and has filled his office for eight years; from which it will be seen that he has been prominently identified with the public welfare of the community. He has also served as president of the Marcus Shipping Association since its organization. He affiliates with the Republican party, and has taken an active interest in its success. He devotes his time and attention to farming, and now owns 240 acres of land in Amherst Township, which he has placed under good cultivation. In 1887 he erected a handsome two-story frame residence, which is one of the finest and best in the township; he has substantial barns for stock and grain, and has planted five acres of grove, which adds exceed- ingly to the beauty and attractiveness of the place. At the close of the war he had been able to save very little money, and his pro- perty has all been accumulated since that time. He is one of the stewards and class leaders of the Simpson Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church, of Amherst Township, to which society his family also belong; they are zealous members, ever active in the cause of their Master, and are among the most worthy and respected people of the county. ===========================================================================