According to the book JAMES MILLER FAMILY HISTORY (1967), compiled and edited by Nell Creer Frame:
"James Miller the third child born to Charles Stewart Miller and Mary McGowan was born 20 Nov 1829 at Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland....James was one of eleven children, six dughters and five sons... They were: Mary Miller, David Miller, James Miller, William Miller, Archibald Miller, Margaret Miller, Agness Miller, Jane McGill Miller, Elizabeth Ferguson Miller, Helen McCulloch Miller, John Miller.

"At seven years of age James went to work in the nearby coal mines. At Hamilton, outside Glasgow one can still see large hills of coal slack, still standing. He worked first as a door keeper but advanced to various other positions as he grew older.

"[He was] just sixteen when he met up with Mormon missionaries and was converted and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. One year later he was baptized 11 Feb. 1846 by Andrew Ferguson and was confirmed 28 Feb. 1846 by William Gibson. He spent the next two years in converting his parents and they accepted the gospel and started for Zion (America) leaving Scotland in 1848.*[see footnote]. They were six weeks crossing the ocean and landed at New Orleans.......

"James Miller, his Father and Mother and his eleven brothers and sisters sailed up the Mississippi River and landed in St. Louis, a family of thirteen. Shortly after landing in St. Louis his Father, Mother and his brothers William and Archibald contracted Cholera and died within ten days of each other. They had settled at Gravois, an area about ten miles out of St. Louis.

..."James the next to the oldest son took over as head of the family of nine children -- and they all lived together and worked in coal mines and knitting mills and saved and in two years were able to come in the Joseph F. Sharp Company across the plains, it took four months. There were James, two brothers and six sisters. James Miller drove an ox team across the plains for Charles Richards**[see footnote] and brought his family safely to Utah arriving Sept. 1851***[see footnote] where they all married, raised lovely families and lived in Utah their entire lives."

"James Miller was one of the first adobe makers in Salt Lake and he did a good deal of work on the Salt Lake Temple, and worked in a meat market as a clerk for Charles Richards**[see footnote]. His daughter Margaret Ann Davis writes, 'While working in Salt Lake my Father met and married my Mother Margaret Ann Anderson 24 Nov 1852. They moved to Spanish Fork and arrived there in Sept. 1856. My Father made adobes and built a home for his family. He assisted others in building homes by making adobes for them. He went as a guard to Echo Canyon in 1858 to help keep out Johnston's Army and was absent from his family ten weeks....'

"Quote from THE HISTORY OF SPANISH FORK written by Elisha Warner pages 68 & 73: Black Hawk, another chief of the Utes, waged war so successfully against the settlers for three years (1865-67) that the Indian troubles of that time are called the Black Hawk War -- and from the list of men who took part in the Indian Wars during the early history of Spanish Fork, James Miller's name is listed....

"Early in the spring of 1872 a number of young men organized themselves into a literary and debating society...the object was to improve each other, to advance in the arts of literary pursuits and public speaking. This group financed and built their own school house. James Miller's name is included in the list of members and shareholders of the Young Mens Academy....

"Elmer Miller, his grandson writes, 'Grandfather James Miller trained the County Militia at night in Spanish Fork and used to direct sham battles on the 4th of July.'

"Margaret Wiscomb his granddaughter and now only child living of his son James David Miller remembers him being short in stature and very jovial. Loved by all his family and loving to them. He liked horses and had one of the earliest organs in Spanish Fork. Many song fests were held at his home. Scotch songs and Scotch recitations were prevalent. Both grandfather and grandmother belonged to the Scottish organization in Spanish Fork and attended all Scotch functions where all danced the Highland Fling.

"Arthur Bowen remembers him participating in the 4th of July Parades as Marshal of the Day -- in his uniform and with his sword.

"Margaret Jones, Eiffel Beck, Margaret Kindred, Chalender Bowen, Bill Miller and Wilma Wetzel can all remember the good times had at his home and his visits in the latter part of his life to their homes...

"After returning from his ten weeks in Echo Canyon, he took up a little farm west of town near where the Freeway will now run and along with farming he worked as a clerk in William Warren's store. After a few years he went into business for himself, having the store in his home for three or four years. Then he bought a piece of ground on Main Street from George W. Wilkins and built a home there and had a store in one room of it also. He continued in business for a few years and then (was) ordered by Brigham Young to turn his establishment into a cooperation. He took $900 worth of shares for himself and family and the people of Spanish Fork bought shares, and the Spanish Fork Co-op was started with James Miller as manager. He held this position for nine years and was very successful and was always able to pay the shareholders a good dividend.

"Later James Miller started another store of his own, and about this time, following the teachings of his church, he went with grandmother Margaret Ann and was sealed for time and eternity to a second wife Susan Lavender and to grandmother the same day, 19 Sept. 1861. Two other plural marriages followed, Lavenia Andrus, 6 Dec. 1869; Lucy Davis 26 Sept. 1894 (sealed for time only). His second marriage to Susan Lavender lasted only a short while -- we have no history or picture of her. Lavenia Andrus and Lucy Davis pictures and histories follow.

"Margaret Anderson six years older than grandfather James Miller having been so patient and wonderful during the raising the two families (Grandfather's third wife being like her own daughter)...she became tired and with her health failing she died at the age of 70 in her beloved home.

"The later years of grandfather's life was spent in a home near his son Charles W. Miller and his wife Minnie Kramer Miller, who took very good care of grandfather. He died 1 Oct 1905 at the age of seventy-eight and is buried near his beloved first wife Margaret Ann in the cemetery at Spanish Fork.

"Then it is to this wonderful man, our grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grandfather and his beloved wife Margaret Ann and their parents that we all give thanks and appreciation for the great sacrifices they made in leaving their comfortable homes and friends in Scotland and for coming here, that we might all be members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and enjoy the wonderful heritage thereof." (written by Nell Creer Frame)

[footnotes]:
*The Charles Stewart Miller family crossed the ocean in the ship "Carnatic" of Boston, John Devereux, master, sailing from Liverpool 20 Feb 1848, arriving in New Orleans 20 Apr 1848, under the leadership of Elder Franklin D. Richards. They are listed on the ship's passenger list as C. Miller, age 43, Mary Miller, age 44, David Miller, age 20, Mary Miller, age 22, James Miller, age 18, William Miller, age 16, Archibold Miller, age 14, Margaret Miller, Agnes Miller, Jane Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Ellen Miller, John Miller (ages of the 6 youngest children not given).

**probably should have said Samuel Richards rather than Charles Richards.

***The James Miller book is mistaken in saying they crossed the plains in 1851. They actually arrived in Utah in the fall of 1850. A Joseph Sharp (from Scotland) came across the plains with an independent company in 1850 according to LDS histories. Gibsons, Sharps, Condies, Millers, Eastons, and Fifes (all from Scotland) intermarried and probably crossed the plains together. James Miller and his siblings are listed in the 1850 census in Salt Lake City (which was taken in the spring of 1851).