Early Life
Miller was born at Standardville, Virginia and was raised in Virginia and Kentucky. He was trained as a carpenter and worked in Ohio, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Virginia. Miller assisted in building a number of buildings on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. By 1834 he had purchased a 300-acre (1.2 km2) farm in McDonough County, Illinois. Sometime before 1827 Miller married Mary Catherine Fry.
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