History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 937, Waterford Township
Wm. P. Miles, was born in this tp., on sec. 6, July 12, 1854,
son of Joseph and Isabel (Porter); attended the Lewistown high school;
by occupation is a farmer. March 6, 1868, he married Hattie Eveland.
They have a son.
