Names: Hoffman, Miller
From History of Grundy Co. MO. 1881
Dr .H. B. Miller .
H. B. Miller was born July 16, 1839, In Brown County,
Illinois
. His father, Samuel W. Miller, was a native of
Kentucky
, and his mother, Margaret Miller of
Tennessee
. He was educated in the common schools of his native county and at the academy
at
Mt. Sterling
,
Illinois
. After he quit school he became a law student for a few months, and then began
the study of medicine. He attended one course of lectures at the New Orleans
Medical School before the war, and at the beginning of the war enlisted in
company D, Eighty-fourth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry, as a private ,was
promoted to first sergeant, then to second lieutenant, next to first lieutenant,
and then brevet captain; he was in the Army of the Cumberland most of the time
during his term of service, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta
campaign, Franklin and Nashville; was discharged June 8, 1865. He resumed his
medical studies after the war, at Keokuk, practice of medicine, and has been
very successful. Dr. Miller was united in Miss R. C. Hoffman, January 1,1866, at
Palmyra
,
Missouri
. She was born September 8, 1847. They have three children; named, respectively,
Maud F., born November 11,1867. Leona M., born September 8, 1869;and Winfield
G., born May 1,1874