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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

   [717-718]

                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
                               Early Settlement


          ALANSON MILLER, son of CALVIN and SARAH MILLER, was born in the
       State of New York, county of Schenectady. When he was a child, his
       parents moved to McHenry county, Illinois, where they settled upon a
       farm.  ALANSON was reared to that occupation and remained with his
       parents until his marriage, February 26, 1868, to MARY A. WILLIS,
       daughter of W. N. and MARY C. WILLIS. Her father was born in
       Massachusetts, and her mother in Pennsylvania. They moved from Ohio
       to McHenry county, Illinois, in 1845. They are now living on the old
       homestead, in that county.  MRS. MILLER was born December 10, 1847.
       The spring following their marriage, MR. MILLER hired to assist in
       driving sheep, to Cass county, Iowa, and being so well pleased with
       the new country, decided to make it his home. He returned to
       Illinois, and in the fall of the same year, removed permanently to
       this county. For two years he lived upon rented land in Turkey
       Grove. In the meantime he purchased forty acres of land on section
       10, Bear Grove township, to which he removed in the spring of 1871,
       and on which he now resides.  MR. MILLER has been prosperous and now
       owns one hundred and fifty acres of finely improved land. His
       parents removed to this county in 1876.  Mr. and Mrs. MILLER have
       four children — EVALEEN M., born in February, 1869; ETTA L., born in
       December, 1871; WILLIS A., born in April, 1874, and ELIZA, born in
       February, 1883.  MR. MILLER has served two terms on the board of
       town trustees, and is now serving his second term as school
       director. He was also a Grant delegate to the State Convention in
       1880.

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