Donald, Or, June 24 - Donald is the home of one of the oldest members of the Grand Army of the Republic. This patriarch is John Manson Miller, who is still hale and hearty and full of the joy of living at the age of 95 years.
The nonagenarian shows few of the marks of decrepitude which are common to men of his advanced years. He enjoys jokes and laughter, and is quick to repartee.
No less alert in body than in mind, he keeps the Miller household supplied with stove wood. One of his favorite pastimes is demolishing pieces of fir. The picture above shows him just after he had chopped up a pile of wood. His favorite ax lies nearby, and woe be unto all who may try to tamper with it. The veteran is old-maidish only about his ax and keeps it in such razor-like shape for his own use and knows its peculiarities so well, that he does not permit it to fall into strange hands.
Mr. Miller was born July 15, 1827, in Georgia, son of Henry and Rachel Miller, natives of North Carolina. When a young man the son went to North Carolina and there married Melissa Stiles. Six children came to bless the union, four of them boys and two girls. All except one daughter are living.
Though a Southerner, John Manson Miller was among the first to be won over to the growing Republican party, and when the war broke out he emphasized his sentiment with the party and against slavery by enlisting in the Union army in the 10th Tennessee regiment. He fought all through the war, taking part in many of the major engagements.
Mrs. Miller died in Kansas in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Miller came West and since then, with the exception of three years spent in California, has made his home with his son, Julius Miller, who lives near Donald.
The nonagenarian shows few of the marks of decrepitude which are common to men of his advanced years. He enjoys jokes and laughter, and is quick to repartee.
No less alert in body than in mind, he keeps the Miller household supplied with stove wood. One of his favorite pastimes is demolishing pieces of fir. The picture above shows him just after he had chopped up a pile of wood. His favorite ax lies nearby, and woe be unto all who may try to tamper with it. The veteran is old-maidish only about his ax and keeps it in such razor-like shape for his own use and knows its peculiarities so well, that he does not permit it to fall into strange hands.
Mr. Miller was born July 15, 1827, in Georgia, son of Henry and Rachel Miller, natives of North Carolina. When a young man the son went to North Carolina and there married Melissa Stiles. Six children came to bless the union, four of them boys and two girls. All except one daughter are living.
Though a Southerner, John Manson Miller was among the first to be won over to the growing Republican party, and when the war broke out he emphasized his sentiment with the party and against slavery by enlisting in the Union army in the 10th Tennessee regiment. He fought all through the war, taking part in many of the major engagements.
Mrs. Miller died in Kansas in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Miller came West and since then, with the exception of three years spent in California, has made his home with his son, Julius Miller, who lives near Donald.
Donald, Or, June 24 - Donald is the home of one of the oldest members of the Grand Army of the Republic. This patriarch is John Manson Miller, who is still hale and hearty and full of the joy of living at the age of 95 years.
The nonagenarian shows few of the marks of decrepitude which are common to men of his advanced years. He enjoys jokes and laughter, and is quick to repartee.
No less alert in body than in mind, he keeps the Miller household supplied with stove wood. One of his favorite pastimes is demolishing pieces of fir. The picture above shows him just after he had chopped up a pile of wood. His favorite ax lies nearby, and woe be unto all who may try to tamper with it. The veteran is old-maidish only about his ax and keeps it in such razor-like shape for his own use and knows its peculiarities so well, that he does not permit it to fall into strange hands.
Mr. Miller was born July 15, 1827, in Georgia, son of Henry and Rachel Miller, natives of North Carolina. When a young man the son went to North Carolina and there married Melissa Stiles. Six children came to bless the union, four of them boys and two girls. All except one daughter are living.
Though a Southerner, John Manson Miller was among the first to be won over to the growing Republican party, and when the war broke out he emphasized his sentiment with the party and against slavery by enlisting in the Union army in the 10th Tennessee regiment. He fought all through the war, taking part in many of the major engagements.
Mrs. Miller died in Kansas in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Miller came West and since then, with the exception of three years spent in California, has made his home with his son, Julius Miller, who lives near Donald.
The nonagenarian shows few of the marks of decrepitude which are common to men of his advanced years. He enjoys jokes and laughter, and is quick to repartee.
No less alert in body than in mind, he keeps the Miller household supplied with stove wood. One of his favorite pastimes is demolishing pieces of fir. The picture above shows him just after he had chopped up a pile of wood. His favorite ax lies nearby, and woe be unto all who may try to tamper with it. The veteran is old-maidish only about his ax and keeps it in such razor-like shape for his own use and knows its peculiarities so well, that he does not permit it to fall into strange hands.
Mr. Miller was born July 15, 1827, in Georgia, son of Henry and Rachel Miller, natives of North Carolina. When a young man the son went to North Carolina and there married Melissa Stiles. Six children came to bless the union, four of them boys and two girls. All except one daughter are living.
Though a Southerner, John Manson Miller was among the first to be won over to the growing Republican party, and when the war broke out he emphasized his sentiment with the party and against slavery by enlisting in the Union army in the 10th Tennessee regiment. He fought all through the war, taking part in many of the major engagements.
Mrs. Miller died in Kansas in 1885. In 1886 Mr. Miller came West and since then, with the exception of three years spent in California, has made his home with his son, Julius Miller, who lives near Donald.
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