Silas F. Miller

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1822-01-20

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1902-02-02

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"Silas F. Miller" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00008204, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat captain, merchant, and hotel keeper. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Married to Margaret Telon Miller. Father of Lillie Miller, Mary Miller, and Jennie Miller. Steamboat captain on the Ohio River and Mississippi River between Louisville, Kentucky, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Owned the Robert J. Ward in partnership with Phillip King and George King. Merchant in Louisville in 1858. Proprietor of the Galt House hotel in Louisville from the 1859 to 1864. Proprietor of the Burnet House in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 3, p. 691.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 586B.
"End Comes. Capt. Silas Miller Dies After Three Weeks' Illness," Louisville Courier-Journal, (Louisville, Kentucky), February 3, 1902, p. 1.
"Ferguson, Mary Johnson," Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 697.
Louisville City Directory & Business Mirror for 1858-9," (Louisville, 1858), 123.
"Wanted to Hire," _Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, Kentucky), December 23, 1859, p. 2.
Williams' Cincinnati Directory, 1865 (Cincinnati: Williams & Co., 1865), 292.

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