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E. V. MILLER, farmer, Greenfield Twp., Sec. 25; P.O. Viroqua; born February 22, 1824, in Fairfield Co., Ohio; in 1843, he came to Jones Co., Iowa. Owns 170 acres of land. Married Susan Granel in 1847; she was born in 1826 in Fairfield Co., Ohio, and died in September, 1855; have four children—T. J., G. G., Anna Mary and Flecia; second marriage to Elizabeth Barnard in November, 1856; she was born in New York; had eight children, seven living—Sarah E., Henry H., Charles L., Estelle V., Kenneth D., and an infant not named; lost one son in September, 1876, aged 17 years. Has been a Magistrate for the past twenty-three years; was elected County School Fund Commissioner in 1853, and served two years; has been Assessor five terms. Enlisted, in 1861, in Company F, 13th I.V.I., and served till the end of the war. Democrat.
Source: History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 587.
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