Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller, farmer and stock raiser, Prairie Township, is a native of West Virginia, born in Berkeley County, November 21, 1814, a son of Henry and Mary (Welch) Hance Miller, former a native of Virginia, latter of Pennsylvania, of German descent. His parents came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1826, where they lived the rest of their lives. They reared a family of six sons, three of whom are living.
Jacob Miller was reared from the age of thirteen years in Wayne County, spending his boyhood and youth in assisting to clear and improve a frontier farm. His education was limited to three months in the subscription schools, but he has made the most of his later opportunities, and is now one of the best informed men in his township. When he was married he and his wife commenced housekeeping in a little log cabin, their only possessions being a cow, a heifer, a few pigs, and one little team. By their united efforts they have added to their accumulations, until they now have a fine farm of 400 acres, with a good comfortable residence and other farm buildings, and have also assisted their children when leaving the home to start life for themselves. Although over seventy years of age, they still attend to the duties of their home, and are in the enjoyment of good health. Mr. Miller was married in 1839 to Hannah Harrison, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born in 1819, a daughter of John and Margaret Harrison, and to them have been born five children, four of whom are living: John H., of Kansas, who married Sarah Combs, and has three children, Ellsworth, Mary and Robert; William H.; Margaret; Louisa, wife of David H. Stullman, has one child, Allen. In politics Mr. Miller has always been a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren. He has served as trustee and in other offices of trust. Mrs. Miller is a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889