ANSEL MILLER, - born in Bridgewater, Windsor County, Vt., May 20, 1798; education limited-raised a farmer; at 23 learned carpenter’s trade; 1826 to 1828 worked at trade in

Boston, Mass.; visited Akron in 1828 and located permanently in 1829; here, with his brother Lewis, he engaged in contracting and building and being the first to raise a building in Akron - a large two-story frame, still standing opposite Lock One - without the use of whisky; in 1839, engaged in boat-building with Mr. Webster B. Storer, under the firm name of Storer &  Miller, continuing 18 years; November 7, 1860, after voting for Abraham Lincoln, moved on to a farm in Copley township, with his son, Charles C. Miller, where he died December 16, 1879, aged 81 years, 6 months and 26 days. Mr. Miller was married to Miss Lucy Auldin Hawkins, November 22, 1831, who died December 17, 1837, having borne him two children - Charles C., now a prosperous farmer in Copley, born December 11, 1832, and James Nelson, born .August 25 1836 and died August 15, 1337. Mr. Miller was a warm friend of education, often serving as school trustee under the old system, and, as elsewhere stated, among the very first to advocate the union, or graded school system, originating in Akron, and now general in Ohio; was an early member of the Board of Education under the new system, and a member of the Council of the incorporated village of Akron for the years 1838, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1852 and 1855. Mr. Miller was an original Anti-Slavery man, and from its organization, a zealous member of the Republican party.

Fifty Years and Over Of Akron and Summit County,  Samuel A. Lane