Sacramento County
Biographies
JOSEPH F.
MILLER
JOSEPH F. MILLER.--For the past thirty years Joseph F. Miller has conducted large general farming interests near Ryde, in the Sacramento Valley. He was born on the island of Pico, Azores, a son of Antone and Isabelle Miller, both natives of the same country. Antone Miller was a farmer by occupation and lived and died on the Isle of Pico. At fifteen years of age Joseph F. Miller left his native country and came to California, settling at San Pablo, where he worked for wages; in 1886 he located in the delta country on the Sacramento River and leased ranches in the vicinity of Ryde and Walnut Grove. Thirty years ago he purchased 120 acres of land at Ryde, which he improved with a house, and set out an orchard; subsequently he added to his original purchase until he now owns 165 acres which is devoted to fruit, asparagus and general farming.
At Sacramento, in 1890, Mr. Miller was married to Miss Ella Cordoza, a native of the capital city and a daughter of John and Ellen H. English. Her father was a pioneer of Sacramento County, but died when Ella was two years old, and subsequently her mother was married again to Domingo Cordoza, and Ella English took the name of Cordoza and was reared on the Cordoza ranch south of Ryde. She now owns the old Cordoza ranch of forty-five acres, which is devoted to general farming. Mr. Cordoza died here in 1900 and the mother died here in 1910. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Miller: Joseph, Adaline, Mrs. Polk McAdam; Mamie; Tony; Laura; and George. Mr. Miller is a member of the I. D. E. S., of Rio Vista and serves as a trustee of the Beaver union grammar school district. In politics he is a Republican. In 1917 Mr. Miller built a twenty-four-room hotel in Ryde, which he leases.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 907-908. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.