Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Cass County, Iowa Continental Historical Company Springfield, ILL; 1884 [718] CHAPTER XXVII ------------- BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP Early Settlement MICHAEL J. MILLER, son of CALVIN and SARAH MILLER, was born in McHenry county, Illinois, October 23, 1849. He came to Cass county in 1874, and has been a resident here since that time. He was married November 13, 1877, to NANCY R. BURNSIDE, who was born at Kirkwood, Illinois, July 10, 1862. Her parents, ROBERT and NANCY BURNSIDE, came from Illinois, in 1871, and settled in Atlantic township, where they still reside. In May, 1882, MR. MILLER bought his present farm of eighty acres, in section 5, of Bear Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two children — ROBERT C. and EARL D. ===========================================================================