ANDERSON B. MILLER, general store, Blue River Station; was born in Oldham Co., Ky., July 19, 1815; he is a son of John (a native of Virginia) and Nancy Blevens, a native of Kentucky, where they were farmers. Anderson lived in Kentucky with his parents until 1832, when he went to Sullivan Co., Ind., and learned the potter's trade, and worked at it eighteen months. In March, 1839, he married Elizabeth Clerk, a native of Kentucky, and carried on the potter's business until the spring of 1848, when he moved his family to this State and located in Lost Grove, Iowa Co., and engaged in farming; remained there four years, then moved to Richwood, Richland Co., where he bought a timber farm, which he cleared off by persevering industry, where he lived until 1862, when he sold out and bought a farm in Mifflin, which he sold in 1868, and moved to Blue River and established his present business. They have had six children; two boys and two girls have died. Alonzo C., the oldest, enlisted in Co. H, 11th W. V. I., and was discharged for disability, and died at St. Louis while on his way home.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.