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John G. Miller, of the lumber firm of Miller & Dyke, Fort Smith, Ark., was born in Indiana in 1842, and is the son of W. B. and Sarah A. Miller. W. B. Miller was a native of England, a miller by trade, and came to America with his parents at the age of eight years, locating in Dearborn County, Ind. A stone mill, erected by him in Dearborn County in 1839, is still in operation, and is run by the youngest son of the family. Mr. Miller was here married, and here passed a long and useful life. The Miller family belonged to the Methodist Church, and were among the higher classes of the English people. John G. Miller was reared and educated in Indiana, and there served an apprenticeship to the milling and flouring business. During the Civil War he was a member of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, in which he served three years. After the war he continued in the milling business until he came to Arkansas in 1870, where he located at Georgetown, and in that vicinity ran a saw-mill for several years. The place was subsequently called Piney Station. Mr. Miller moved to Clarksville, Johnson County, in 1877, and from there came to Fort Smith in 1879, entered the saw-mill and lumber business, and now manufactures sash, doors, blinds, etc. on a large scale. He married Miss Mary J. Trester, a native of Indiana, in 1867, and to them were born five children: Carl, Daisy, May and Florence. Their third child, Roy, died at the age of five years. Mr. Miller is a Republican in politics, is a member of the Masonic fraternity, K. of H., and has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since twelve years of age.