"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
ADAMS TOWNSHIP

PAGE 307

MICHAEL E. MILLER, proprietor of Eureka Flouring Mills, was born in Botetourt
County, Va., February 10, 1824, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Vinyard)
Miller, both natives of the "Old Dominion," and of German descent.  John Miller
was educated and married in his native State, where in early life he learned the
tanner's trade, and followed the same for several years.  In 1830, he came with
his wife and family to Morgan County, Ind., and opened a tannery near where the
village of Brooklyn is now situate, and remained some ten years.  He then removed
to Hendricks County, Ind., and opened a tannery near Belleville, where he resided
until his death, which occurred in February, 1876.  Both himself and wife were
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was a soldier during the war of 1812.
In 1822, he came to Indianapolis, then only a small village, on a prospecting tour.
The State was then almost an unbroken wilderness;  there being no roads, they were
obliged to make their way by the blazed lines of the Government surveys.  Both the
grandfathers of our subject were veterans of the Revolutionary war.  Michael E.
Miller, our subject, received such an education as could be obtained in the schools
of the Indiana frontier.  He learned the tanner's trade with his father, and followed
the same in Hendricks County, Ind., for more than twenty years.  In 1872, he engaged
in the saw and planing mill business at Eminence, Morgan Co., Ind., which he followed
until the fall of 1883, when he bought a half-interest in the Eureka Flouring Mills
at same place.  He still owns, however, the saw and planing mill.  He was married,
August 25, 1849, to Jane Cox, a native of Hendricks County, Ind.  Six children were
born to them, five of whom--two sons and three daughters--are yet liviing.  Mr. Miller
was for many years a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.  In politics, Mr. Miller
is a Democrat, and has been for many years an earnest advocate of the temperance cause.

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