Illinois:  History of Cass, County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin.  O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

EDMUND P. MILLER, livery; Beardstown; was born in 
Greenburg, Green County, Ky., March 25, 1819; son of Major 
William and Martha (Winlock) Miller.  Major William Miller 
was born in Virginia in 1790; removed to Green County, Ky., 
when a boy, and learned the carpenter's trade, at which he 
worked several years; afterward kept hotel in Greenburg, 
Ky., in Springfield, Ill., and in Jacksonville, Ill.  In 
1843 he removed to this county, and died in Beardstown in 
1864.  He served in both campaigns of the Black Hawk War, 
being captain during the first, and promoted to the rank of 
Major in the second campaign; he was a stanch Whig.  His 
wife, who was a native of Virginia, died in 1856, aged 
sixty-eight years; they have had eight children, six of 
whom are living: Edmund P. came with his parents to St. 
Louis, Mo., in 1827, then in 1829, to Jacksonville, Ill., 
where he resided until 1843; and in the fall of 1844 came 
to Beardstown, and purchased a farm four miles from the 
town, and engaged in farming in this precinct until 1881; 
he owned some of the best farms in the county, and engaged 
largely in raising grain.  He purchased, at the 
administrator's sale of the effects of the late David 
Drake, his present livery stables, and does a good livery 
and feed business; has accommodation for fifty horses.  In 
1857 he married Catharine, daughter of William Wright, of 
Schuyler County, Ill.; they have five children living.

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