Biography of William C. Miller, pages 671/672.  History of 
DeKalb County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., 
Indianapolis, 1914.



In the course of an honorable career, that has been 
attended by abundant success, the gentleman whose name 
heads this paragraph, one of the best known and 
representative citizens of DeKalb county, has shown what an 
earnestness of purpose and right principles properly 
applied can accomplish. Realizing early in life that the 
idler and dreamer never attain the goal sought, he went to 
work with a will and by persistent efforts rose gradually 
to an honorable place in the community, having gained a 
splendid reputation as an educator and later making  an 
admirable record as a agriculturist. William C. Miller was 
born April 26, 1882, in Stafford township, DeKalb county, 
Indiana, the son of Joseph H. and Ida (Wyckoff) Miller. 
Joseph Miller was born in the Keystone state on March 1, 
1850, and came to Indiana in 1875, locating on a farm in 
DeKalb county. He married Ida Wyckoff in 1881, she having 
been born May 20, 1860, in DeKalb county. They are at 
present living on the old farm.  To them have been born 
three children, the subject, Glen and Ray, who are living 
at home.  On December 26, 1905, William C. Miller was 
united in the bonds of matrimony to Ida L. Kramer, daughter 
of Michael and Kathrene (Christoffel) Kramer. The father of 
the subject’s wife was born in Germany and her mother was a 
native of the Hoosier state. To the subject and wife has 
been born one child, Charles Russell, whose birth occurred 
on September 8, 1906. The subject of this sketch received a 
good education in the common schools of DeKalb county, this 
being supplemented by a course in the Butler high school.  
During the ten years from 1900 to 1910 Mr. Miller taught in 
the public schools of Stafford township and one year in 
Butler schools. He purchased his farm of seventy-seven 
acres in 1905, and is now very successfully engaged in 
general farming. He has a nice home and has erected 
substantial outbuildings, making his place one of the very 
best in the county. The Democratic party has been the 
recipient of Mr. Miller’s support and franchise, while, 
fraternally, he is a member of Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, Lodge No. 282, of Butler, and Encampment No. 160, 
also of Butler.

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