George Nathaniel Miller
1838 - 1916

George Nathaniel Miller was born on June 16, 1838, in Columbia Co., Pennsylvania. Before 1857, he was married to Catharine Knickerbocker. Two of their children died in infancy. A third child married Mary M. Young and died in 1909.

George Miller farmed until March 2, 1864, when he enlisted in the Union Army. During the Civil War he served in Virginia with Company F, 2nd Regt. Pa. (Heavy) Artillery as a teamster. He was honorably discharged on January 29, 1866, then resided a short time in or near the village of Moscow in Luzerne (now Lackawanna) County, Pa. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Borough of Providence (now Scranton), Pa. on March 27, 1867. Catharine, his wife, died on June 14, 1867.

George was married secondly to Emily Mott in Scranton on February 16, 1869, where he was a drayman. Seven children were born to George and Emily in Scranton, five of whom were living in 1889 when the family came by train to a farm near Rochester (now Zenda) in Kingman County, Kansas. Thereafter they purchased a farm nearby in Liberty Twp., Harper County, where George died on June 26, 1916, at age 78. He is buried at Attica, Kansas.