Jacob Miler, the progenitor of this family, was one of the earliest settlers of Kiskiminetas township, where his descendants now reside. He was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1774, and his wife, Mary Uncafer, was born the same year. They emigrated to this county in the spring of 1803, the year the county was organized judicially, and lived here the remainder of their lives, rearing a family of five children. Jacob Miler died May 3, 1856, and his wife in 1821. Their children were: Joseph, born October 31, 1798, died October 31, 1862; John, born February 18, 1800; Margaret (wife of David Black), born December 18, 1803; William, born May 13, 1806; Andrew born April 15, 1814; and Mary, born 1809, who died in infancy.

Andrew Miller, who owns the old homestead farm, and lived upon it, married June 21, 1855, Miss Mary Jane Baker, who was born in Westmoreland county, October 4, 1834. They had had eight children, as follows: Wilhelmina, born September 18, 1856 (wife of William McKustry, and a resident of Kiskiminetas township); Oliver Milton, born February 25, 1860; William John, born November 21, 1861; Jacob Andrew, born July 7, 1865; David Franklin, born July 21, 1867; Harry A., born February 10, 1870; and infant not named, born January 31, 1874, and Ida Rosetta, born April 27, 1875. Andrew Miller has been all of his life a farmer. He owns about 130 acres of land, the old homestead, which is well improved and valuable.

Source: Page(s) 618-619, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed April 2000 by Carl Waltenbaugh for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by Carl Waltenbaugh for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)

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