Miller, Jacob bio

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 925, Vermont Township
Jacob Miller, farer, sec. 2; P. O., Ipava; was born in Penn. in 1814; in 1815 the family moved to Ohio; in 1836 Mr. M. emigrated to Vermont township; in 1839 he married Amanda, daughter of Rev. Robert Dobbins, a Presbyterian minister, and the second settler on the prairie in this township. These are the children: Philetus, who was killed in 1863 by a horse running away; Mary C.; Eliza M.; and Jane C., who married Charles Hixon, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. M. relate many interesting reminiscences of pioneer times.