George Conrad Miller
Biographical Sketch

Source: "Hunt Family Journal" by Karen Hoover, 1996

"George was a very rugged, tall, handsome man with dark hair, 
brown, snappy eyes, shaded by dark bushy eyebrows. He married 
Isabelle Doyle, a widow of Simon Ryan, with one child, Helen 
(Molly) Ryan on October24, 1894 and they made their home in 
Osage Co., KS."

"(He) moved his family in 1903 to Ellsworth Co. near Lorraine, 
KS by covered wagon and then in 1910 moved again to Ness Co.. 
In 1911, they again moved, by train, to Colorado, S.W. of 
Lamar, 20 miles S. of Caddoa, in Bent Co. to homestead new 
land. Their home was a "dug-out" in the side of a hill with a 
dirt floor. The family struggled to live on this land, fighting 
the elements, and proper schooling for the children. Isabelle 
took the children and returned to Ness Co.. George continued on 
the homestead for the five years required to obtain the title 
to the land."

"Colesburg or Dyersville?" are the towns listed as George's 
birthplace by his daughter Opel in the Hunt Bible. They are 
both located in Delaware Co. about 30 miles west of Dubuque, 
where his father and mother were married. Karen (MILLER) Hoover 
notes "Austradock" (Osterdock) as the town where Andrew and 
Cordelia resided, and George was born, which is in Clayton Co., 
adjacent and north of Delaware Co.. DH 02/02/98