Biography
James Miller was born in Peterborough, New Hampshire to James Miller and Catharine Gregg Miller. He attended an academy at Amherst, Massachusetts and then Williams College. He married Martha Ferguson and they had one son, James Ferguson Miller, who became a noted naval officer. After Martha's death, he married Ruth Flint.He had a law practice in Greenfield, New Hampshire from 1803 to 1808.
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