Biographical Sketch of

Gard Miller

Transcribed by Sandra Boudrou for the Marquette Co WI Pages


Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 670 - 671


Gard Miller, an enterprising and thrifty farmer of Green Lake township, Green Lake County, now resides on 
section 11, his post office being Ripon.  He has passed his entire life in this county, having been born 
on the old Miller homestead on section 20.  His parents are William A. and Ann R. (Gardenier) Miller, whose 
sketch appears on another page of this volume.  He was reared to habits of industry, his father believing 
that his boys should be educated not alone in books but also in business affairs.  In the schools of the 
district he acquired sufficient education to dispatch with promptness all matters of business, and under 
the direction of his parents he was inured to farm labor.  As soon as he was old enough to handle the plow 
he began cultivating the broad acres of the old homestead, and like a dutiful son remained upon the farm 
until after he had attained his majority, when having become acquainted with Miss Hattie Patric, he sought 
her hand in marriage, and on the 23d day of March, 1882, they were joined in wedlock.  The lady is a native 
of the town of Marquette, Green Lake County, the date of her birth being Sept. 10, 1860.  Three children 
grace their union, namely:  Lee, Murl and Melvina.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Miller began their domestic life upon the farm which they still make their home.  From his 
father, as a reward for his faithfulness to duty in early life, he received 320 acres of land, and by 
subsequent purchase has extended the boundaries of his farm until he is now owner of 550 acres of as fine 
land as can be found in the county.  Not only is Mr. Miller a progressive and enterprising farmer, but he 
is also numbered among the leading young citizens of the township, and is now serving his second term as 
Town Treasurer, being elected to that position by the Republican party, of which he is a warm advocate.  
He is a representative of one of the pioneer families of the county and wherever known is highly esteemed.






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