El Dorado County Biographies


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SAMUEL R. MILLER
 
            Born near Elizabethtown, Hardin county, Kentucky, June 13, 1817.  
His father was Nicholas Miller, who was also a native of Kentucky.  In 1833 he 
removed to Harrison county, Indiana. In 1848 removed to Van Buren county, Iowa, 
and in 1850 crossed the plains to California; and arrived at Placerville 
September 15th and began mining, which vocation he followed until 1868, when he 
located on what he now calls the Mountain Spring ranch, once know [sic] as the 
�Mountain View� ranch.  Married March 30, 1843, to Cynthia Marsh, of 
Shelbyville, Kentucky, daughter of Nathaniel Marsh.  They have reared a family 
of four children, two sons and two daughters, viz.:  John Henry, Margaret Ann, 
James F., Mary J., and two deceased, viz.:  Nicholas N. and Sarah J.; the last 
three of the family were born in California, the first three in Indiana.  Has 
about 200 acres of fine farming land, 10 or 12 of which is in fruit.  Has one 
barn 75 x 54 feet, the largest in the county; the place is well watered, as Mr. 
Miller is one of eight who own the ditch.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p - 254
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler