- HARVEY MARSHALL MILLER, for many years proprietor of the
Miller homestead, in Section
- 32, Bradford township, Rock County, has lived many years
in this community, and the simplicity of his life, his industrious
habits and genuine manliness have alike commanded the confidence
and esteem of his neighbors.
- Mr. MILLER was born in Rome, N.Y., March 23, 1823. He was
educated at the academy at
- Whitesboro, N.Y., and began life for himself as a clerk in
a hotel in his native city, being employed there four years,
when he married and moved to Baltimore. He was twenty-nine years
of age at that time, and a very capable and attractive business
man. He continued in the hotel business for seven years in the
"Union Hotel," situated at the corner of Thames and
Bond streets, one of the oldest buildings in that city. The material
for it was brought from England, the building constructed in
1777. When the Civil war broke out the strong Union sentiments
of Mr. MILLER aroused the dangerous hostility of the Southern
element, which was manifested to such an extent that he thought
it wise to dispose of his property and leave for the North. He
returned to New York, and took a position as a clerk in a hotel
in Oriskany. There he remained for two years, and then came to
Wisconsin to engaged in agriculture. He located at his present
residence in 1900. He owns a tobacco farm of twenty acres in
Clinton township.
- Mr. MILLER and Miss Anna CHRISTMAN were married Jan. 16,
1852, when she was
- seventeen years of age. She is the daughter of Col. Abraham
and Betsy (CARPENTER) CHRISTMAN, of Oriskany, N.Y., the former
of whom was a farmer and a prominent man in that community. Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey M. MILLER have no children. She is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Our subject has been an Odd Fellow
for fifty years. He shuns politics, and will accept no elective
office.
- George W. MILLER, the father of Harvey Marshall, was a native
of Oldhadam, Mass., born in
- 1792, and was a farmer. He married Miss Elizabeth POWELL,
a daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Spencer) POWELL, of Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., and they became the parents of seven children, Harvey M.,
Elizabeth, Mary, Reuben P., Oliver, Nathaniel P., and one child
who died an infant. At the present writing only Elizabeth and
Harvey M. are living. The MILLERS were Quakers in England and
came to this country about 1682.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 374.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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