JOHN W. MILLER, farmer, P.O. Evansburg, was
born in Sadsbury Township, Crawford County, December 12, 1835, son of
Jacob T. and Sally (McDowell) Miller, natives of Pennsylvania. Our subject
in early life followed blacksmithing at Victoria, Knox Co., Ill. He came
to this county in 1866, and now lives on a farm which he is improving and
fitting up for a permanent home. It is located about two miles west of
Evansburg. He was married January 30, 1859, to Sarah E. Jones. To this
union have been born six children: Sally A., Charles C., Friend E., James
C., Walter B. and Joseph, all living on the home farm with their parents,
except Sally A., who married John L. Spencer, and now resides in North
Shenango Township, this county. Mr. Miller in politics is a Republican.
History of Crawford County,
Pennsylvania: containing a
history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools,
churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent
men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous
matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, pages 990-991..
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