Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 307

JOHN T. MILES, blacksmith, was born in Orange County, N. C., August
13, 1849;  is a son of James W. and Nancy N. (Squires) Miles, both born
in North Carolina, and were of German and Irish descent.  James W. Miles
was educated and married in his native State;  he, in early life, learned the
wagon-maker's trade, also followed agricultural pursuits and undertaker's
business in connection with the same for many years.  In the fall of 1868, he
came with his family to Monroe Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he
remained for one year;  then moved to Orange County, Ind., and remained
some four or five years, after which he returned to Gregg Township, Morgan
Co., Ind., residing there until his death, which occurred in the fall of 1879,
in his sixty-seventh year.  John T. Miles, our subject, received a fair common
school education.  At the age of seventeen, he came to Hendricks County,
Ind., and commenced to learn the blacksmith's trade, following the same
in Missouri and Indiana ever since.  In 1873, he removed to Hall, and in
December, 1881, came to Eminence, Morgan Co., Ind., where he now
resides.  Mr. Miles was married, February 11,1877, to Martha A. Mannan,
a native of Owen County, Ind.  Four children bless their union, three of 
whom, one son and two daughters, are yet living.  Mrs. Miles is a member
of the Christian Church.  Mr. Miles is a member of Eminence Lodge, No. 
440, A., F. & A. M., having been a member of that order for the past four-
teen years.  In politics, he is a Democrat.


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