Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Monroe County. GEORGE M. MILLER was born and reared on a farm. At the age of twenty- two years all the education he had received was five or six months in the common schools, his time having been taken up with work on the farm. In 1873 he entered Concord Academy, in Clay County, Tenn., where he remained as a student for one year; then, as he was obliged to make his own way, he took up the profession of teaching for a short time; then studied for a while in the Summer Shade Academy; then became a law student in the Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn., where he graduated in law and received a diploma on the 20th of January, 1881. Having been admitted to the bar in 1878, he began the practice of law in Tompkinsville, Ky., where he has remained up to the present (1885), and has been very successful. He was elected attorney for Monroe County in August, 1882. Mr. Miller is unmarried, and is now the junior member of the law firm of Botts & Miller, in full practice in the county of Monroe. He is, so far, a self-made man, a close student and industrious practitioner. The subject of this sketch is the eldest son of James M. Miller, a successful farmer and trader of Metcalfe County, Ky. He is a native of east Tennessee, having been born in or near the town of Jonesboro, on the 26th of October, 1826. On the 4th of January, 1849, he was married to Miss Mary M. Chapman, daughter of Robert and Nancy (Crews) Chapman, who were natives of Kentucky, but descendants of Virginia families, their parents having immigrated to this State from Virginia as early as 1795. Joseph Miller, the paternal grandfather of George M. Miller, was an east Tennessean by birth, who came to Kentucky in 1835, and located in Monroe County, about five miles northeast of Tompkinsville, where he died on the 16th of April, 1885, aged eighty- seven years. Botts Chapman Crews = Clay-TN Jonesboro-TN Lebanon-TN Metcalfe VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/monroe/miller.gm.txt