Untitled From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 885

GEORGE MILLER (deceased) is remembered in Hazel Green, Grant county, as an honorable and upright citizen, and was born in Baden, France, in 1817. In 1840 he came to Wisconsin, and for a time worked in Jo Daviess county, Ill. In 1848 he married Miss Katherine KEISER, a lady born in France, in March, 1830, the daughter of Nicholas and Christine KEISER, both born in that country. In 1833 they came to America and settled in Jo Daviess county, Ill., where he lived until a short time before his death, in 1862, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. MILLER. Mrs. KEISER died in 1897, being 108 years old at the time of her death. Mrs. MILLER is the only representative of this family now living.

Mr. MILLER was a shoemaker by trade, and worked for a time in Hazel Green. In 1849 he bought forty acres of wild land in the town of Hazel Green. To this he added by purchase from time to time, until at his death he was the owner of 190 acres of fine farming land. A good house and ample barns were erected by him, the land cleared and brought under high cultivation, and the entire property made one of the most valuable in this part of the State. To Mr. MILLER and his wife were born eleven children, of whom four are now living: (1) Catherine, born in 1855, is the wife of John KUNTZ, who resides near the MILLER homestead. Mrs. KUNTZ was married to Joseph YORKSHIRE before her present marriage, and to him she bore four children, George, John, Joseph, and August. By Mr. KUNTZ she has four children, Leo, Mary, Charles, and Agnes. (2) Peter, born in 1858, married Miss Christina NALICE, of Galena, Ill., and is now living on his mother's old homestead. (3) Christina, born in 1873, is now the wife of Henry SCHNOWDENBERG, and has her home in Jo Daviess county; there are three children in this family: Orvil, Gladys and Adele. (4) Clara, born in 1875, is now the wife of Peter CABANAS, of Hazel Green. They have one daughter, Lea. Mr. MILLER, like his wife and family, was a member of the Catholic church, and all have been liberal supporters of same. In his political affiliations Mr. MILLER was a Democrat.



This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck