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 780 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY In 1906 his son sold out his interest to Hospodarsky and Lapprell, who with August Miller, carried on the business for about nine months, when they purchased the business. Otto Miller then started a new meat market and August Miller worked with him until 1908, when he moved to Deer'Loclge, Tenn., where he owns 900 acres of farm and timber land. There the mother and father still live. Otto F. C. attended the public schools of Zumbrota and after school took up the meat business. In 1901 bought out the firm of Kolbe & Kalass, and as mentioned before in this sketch, carried on business with his father until 1906, when he sold out. He spent .the next year in preparing his present residence on Fourth street and in 1907 again took up the meat business. He is interested in the Zumbrota Clay Manu- facturing Company, is an independent voter and belongs to the German Lutheran Church. The father served both as alderman and marshall of the village. O. F. C. Miller was married, June 9, 1903, at Goodhue, to Annie S. Hilderbrandt, daughter of Christ and Sophia Hilderbrandt. natives of Germany, who came to America in 1864 and located in Goodhue county, where they engaged in farming. Mr. Hilderbrandt died in 1878 and his wife in 1902. August Miller was one of the men who assisted in building up the village of Zumbrota. He is a kind and honest man and well liked by all who know him. A. J. Miller, one of the early pioneers of Zumbrota, was a native of England, born in Southfork, May 21, 1833. In that bonny corner of old England he spent his early boyhood and at the age of twelve years came to this country and lived in New York until 3859. when lie came west and took up a homestead in Goodhue comity, five miles east of Zumbrota, where he lived for the remainder of his days. In the early times he ex- perienced all the hardships incident to pioneer life. He hauled his wheat to Lake City with a yoke of oxen, taking several days for each trip, and sleeping out of doors when night overtook him, letting the oxen forage as best they could on the grass along the trail — for road it could hardly be called in those days. Ready cash was serace, and Mr. Miller was glad to cut wood at twenty-five cents a cord. In the latter part of his life affairs took •on a different aspect. Being a shrewd business man, he in- vested his money in real estate, and at his death left a fortune of $80,000, all gained by his own efforts. He died February 22, 1882, aged fifty years, nine months and one day, and was laid to rest in Mazeppa cemetery. A. J. Miller was married, October 27, 1861, to Amy A. Davis, of Chester Wabasha county, who proved a most able helpmeet in all his undertakings. Anton Grossbeck, w T hose farm lies largely within the village limits of Zumbrota, is of Teutonis origin, born in Germany, July