Biographical Sketch of
Townsend W. 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 641 - 642 Townsend W. Miller. The history of Green Lake County would be incomplete were the sketches of the Miller family omitted. Its members are not only numbered among the honored pioneers, but they rank among its best citizens, and are prominently identified with the agricultural and stock-raising interests of Central Wisconsin. Our subject still resides on the old homestead farm, where he first saw the light of day, May 11, 1849. His parents are William A. and Ann R. (Gardinier) Miller, who are more fully mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Town, as is familiarly called, remained under the parental roof until the death of his mother, in 1881, when the home was broken up and the property divided. To his share fell the old farm, comprising 372 acres of highly cultivated and finely-improved land. There the happy days of his boyhood were passed, also the earlier years of his manhood, and now it has become his, to be his home as long as he wishes to make it such. His educational advantages, like those of most of the boys of his day, were confined to the district schools. When he became owner of the old home farm he began his labors with great zeal and energy, which have never abated in the least, and to the original amount he has added until now 870 acres yield to him the fruits of bounteous harvests. He is also one of the most extensive stock-raisers and shippers in Green Lake County, and owns some splendid head of both cattle and horses. In connection with "Ned" Smith, he is owner of an imported Percheron and a fine Kentucky trotter, stallion. Politically, Mr. Miller is a Republican, and in 1887 was elected by that party to the position of County Treasury, the duties of which office he creditably and satisfactorily discharged for a term of two years. He is now serving his third term as Supervisor of Green Lake Township, which attests his efficiency as an officer. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and ranks among the leading business men of the county. He is sagacious and far-sighted, and manages his business interests in a methodical manner, carefully attending to all details. In manner, Mr. Miller is noted for his jollity and thoroughly enjoys repartee and wit. He is a general favorite, and his comrades say of him that he will lay awake all night to plan and carry out a joke.
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