Isaac Miner
One of the most popular men during the pioneer days of Madison County was Judge Isaac Miner, a native of Massachusetts, born in 1778, subsequently removing to New York, whence, in 1806, he came to Franklin County, Ohio. In early life, he learned the trade of a millwright and upon coming to this State erected a mill at Georgesville, but getting into financial trouble, he, with his brother Jeremiah, who had come a year later, removed, in 1808, to leased lands on Deer Creek, in what is now Oak Run Township, Madison County, where they engaged in the stock trade which proved very remunerative, each of the brothers accumulating a fortune. In 1809, Isaac Miner was elected Associate Judge of Franklin County, and held that office until the territory composing Madison was cut off and formed into a new county, when he was elected one of the Associate Judges of Madison, serving through 1810, then resigning the office. In the sessions of 1816-17, 1817-18, 1818-19 and 1820-21, he represented this district in the Ohio Legislature. He married and. became the father of three sons, viz.: Griffin, who removed to the West; John, who studied law, rose to the position of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and died in Cincinnati; and William, who was Sheriff of Franklin County, 1855-56. A few years after the expiration of his last legislative term, Judge Miner and his brother returned to Franklin County, and purchased the property known for many years as the "old Miner farm," near Columbus, where the Judge died in the fall of 1831, aged fifty-three years. His brother, Jeremiah, lived a bachelor, dying at the advanced age of seventy-four years at Sandusky, Wyandot County, in the spring of 1851. He was interred in Green Lawn Cemetery, on the "old Miner farm." Both were honest, independent-minded men, successful in getting property, but Jeremiah was very eccentric, while Isaac possessed a well-balanced legal mind and a capacity of winning friends which assisted him very materially in the battle of life.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]