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Isaac Miller
Isaac Miller, deceased, was a son of Isaac, who was of German birth. He came to America about 1760, and in 1799 settled nine miles west of Dayton, Ohio, where he died. Our subject was born in Pennsylvania, Jan. 23, 1783, and died near Cambridge City, Ind., July 22, 1861. He was reared to the life of a farmer in Ohio, and while there married Mary, daughter of Christopher and Mary Witten, who was also of German extraction. She was born in Pennsylvania, Nov. 26, 1792, and died near Cambridge City, Ind., April 29, 1863. In 1826 they settled one mile northwest of Cambridge City, in the dense, unbroken forest, cleared out a farm and lived on it till his death. They were members of the Dunkard's church. They had ten children — Samuel, now of Hamilton county, Ind.; Susan, wife of Jacob Sheidler; Elizabeth, deceased; Isaac, an attorney, Nashville, Ill.; Abraham, of Crawfordsville, Ind.; Sarah, wife of G. M. Barns, of Mexico, Mo.; Aaron B., now of Andrews, Huntington Co., Ind.; George W., carriage-maker of Indianapolis, Ind.; Catharine, deceased, wife of Benjamin White, and John W., who has been for a number of years a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church. Their children all lived to maturity and contributed to raise their home from its primitive state. They all married, and excepting two are still living. Their posterity are scattered over several States of the Union, and are engaged in agriculture, mechanics, arts, commerce, ministry, law and literature. The family in all its branches has been remarkable for one thing — though reared amidst many temptations and opportunities to form habits of dissipation, there has not been a drunkard in the family, and nearly all of the posterity belong to some religious society, among which we mention Dunkards, Albrights, Methodists and Lutherans.
Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2