The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1001 

JOHN HENRY MILLER.

John Henry Miller occupies a fine home which stands in the midst of a ranch of
seventy acres adjoining the corporation limits of Sunnyside on the north. He
comes to Washington from the state of Kansas, but his birth occurred in
Waterloo, Iowa, on the 22d of February, 1859. He is a son of Henry and Nancy
(Keim) Miller, both of whom were natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and
removed to Ohio before becoming pioneer settlers of Iowa. The father followed
farming in the Hawkeye state to the time of his death, while his widow passed
away in Nebraska.

John Henry Miller acquired a public school education in Iowa and when eighteen
years of age began working for wages, being thus employed in Iowa and Illinois.
He afterward went to Nebraska, where he carried on farming for three years, and
in 1882 he began renting land in Hamilton county, Nebraska, thus carrying on
agricultural pursuits for three years. In 1885 he removed to Brown county,
Kansas, where he followed farming until 1901. In that year he came to Sunnyside,
Washington, where he had purchased eighty, acres of land adjoining the north
edge of the town. He has since sold a ten-acre tract. The remainder is all under
cultivation and he raises hay, corn, potatoes and sugar beets but now rents most
of his land. His attractive residence was built in 1902 and he also has good
barns and all modern improvements upon his place, which is lacking in none of
the accessories and conveniences of the model farm of the twentieth century.

On the 7th of December, 1882, Mr. Miller was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary
Catherine Flickinger, a native of Blackhawk county, Iowa, and a daughter of
Jacob Flickinger. To Mr. and Mrs. Miller have been born three children. Mida is
the wife of Creighton Atkinson, a carpenter by trade, whom she wedded on the 23d
of January, 1907, and by whom she has had four children, namely: Mary Josephine,
who was born October 11, 1907; Katherine, whose birth occurred on the 10th of
October, 1909; Thelma May, born July 11, 1913; and John Henry, who was born
March 7, 1917, and died on the 22d of April following. Edna May Miller is a
professional nurse of Salt Lake City. Maynard Miler passed away at the age of a
year and a half.

Mr. Miller and his family are members of the First Brethren church, in which he
is now serving as a trustee. His political allegiance is given to the republican
party but he does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his
efforts and attention upon his business affairs, which have been wisely and
carefully directed and bring to him the measure of success that is now his.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.