Butte County
Biographies
J. J. MILLER
J. J. Miller, a representative citizen of Butte county, is the manager of the Diamond Match Company lumber
yard at Gridley, and is now acting as president of the high school board of
Gridley. He was born in Nebraska, March 30, 1883, a son of Jacob and Setta (Zimmer) Miller. The father was a farmer, and both he
and his wife are now deceased.
J. J. Miller received his early education in the common
schools of Nebraska, and spent his youthful years on the farm. After one year
in high school, he went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he look
a commercial course, and also a scientific course in Valparaiso University of
Indiana, graduating in 1908. In 1924 he came to California, locating at Gridley,
where he assumed his present position as manager of the local lumber yard of
the Diamond Match Company.
Mr. Miller is a republican in politics, has been very
active in civic affairs of Butte county, and was
elected president of the local high school board in 1929. His religious
connection is with the Presbyterian Church, and fraternally he is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Gridley.
Mr. Miller was first married in 1909 to Miss Eva Mae
Cripps, who died in 1926. They were the parents of two daughters, Florence,
attending Marysville Junior College; and Gertrude, a student in the Gridley
high school. Mr. Miller was married secondly to Mrs. Mary A. Crum, a
daughter of Colonel Veatch and Mary (Horstman)
Veatch.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
02 June 2010.
Source: Wooldridge, J.W.Major
History of Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 Page 148. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Marie Hassard.
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