M. S. Miller (biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler


M. S. MILLER, farmer, P.O. Grenola, was born in Essex County, N. Y., 1850, in 1870, emigrated to Kansas and located a claim in Howard County in Section 17, Town 31, Range 9, was among the first settlers in this township, was eighty-five miles from a railroad point, and the first year went to Kansas City, 185 miles for supplies, at the present time, his farm joins the town site of Grenola, with a railroad within one-half miles, his place is well watered by a branch of Caney Creek; has some timber, making a desirable stock farm, has put ninety acres in cultivation, fenced the whole farm, put out an orchard of about ten acres, put up a good frame house 22 x 16 with wing 14 x 16, stone barn 20 x 60, besides sheds, corrals, etc., is raising stock--has forty-five head of cattle and about fifty head of hogs, twelve head of horses, and has made the whole of his property here in Kansas.  Was married, 1878, to Miss W. Armfield, of Elk County.   They have one daughter, Pearl.  He is the present Justice of the Peace of Greenfield; is one of the substantial men of the township, and during the first summer in Kansas, had a hard time.