REV. CHARLES C. MILLER, Pastor of the German M. E. Church of Platteville, was born in Quincy, Ill. His father, Michael Miller, was a native of Alsace, Germany, and came to America in 1830 or 1831. He lived in New York City till 1835, then went to Quincy, Ill., and now lives in Lincoln, Neb. Charles C. Miller was educated in Quincy, Ill.; was in the mercantile business in Bushnell, Ill., six years, and five years in Freeport, and entered the ministry in 1878. He was married in Freeport, Ill., in 1873, to Miss Lizzie Wenzel, and has five children - Arthur Wenzel, Edward Funk, Ida May, Clarence Wesley and Benjamin Philip. His first charge was Lena, Ill., and he came from there to Platteville in October, 1880. In February, 1864, he enlisted in the 151st Ill. V. I., Co. C, as a private, and served till the close of the war.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.