R. D. Miller

    R. D. Miller, farmer and stock-dealer, is a son of C. I. and  Eliatha (Harris) Miller, natives of Kentucky. His father was a blacksmith and farmer, and followed his trade to his life's end in 1879; his mother died January 6, 1882. Our subject's boyhood was passed at the home of his parents. In 1862, he went to Minnesota, and in 1863 to Montana, where he was engaged at mining for four years. Green C. Smith at that time Governor of the territory, was a schoolmate of our subject. Mr. Miller, after returning to Kentucky, came to Indiana, and settled in Goodland, where he remained until 1876, when he purchased 240 acres, and one year thereafter occupied the same as a home. He has a fine farm, handles from thirty to forty head of cattle, and from forty to fifty hogs each year; he also raised from 5,000 to 6,000 bushels of wheat from his land.

    Mr. Miller, while in Kentucky, was wedded to Miss Susan J. Barrett, daughter of James Barrett, a native of Missouri. To this union were born six children -Laura F., Miranda M., Calitha A., Susan R., Edmund L. C. (deceased) and C. Irvin.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.