1854 - 1935 (80 years)
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| Name |
MILES, George Melville |
| Birth |
25 Oct 1854 |
Westminster, MA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| _COLOR |
2 |
| Death |
15 Jan 1935 |
Portland, OR |
| Burial |
Chicago, IL |
| Person ID |
I14048 |
Puffers |
| Last Modified |
12 Mar 2018 |
| Father |
MILES, Daniel Curtis, b. 21 Jun 1827, Westminster, MA d. 23 Feb 1912, Washington, DC (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
PUFFER, Lucy Ann, b. 25 Aug 1828, Ashburnham, MA d. 9 Feb 1869 (Age 40 years) |
| Marriage |
2 May 1851 |
Westminster, MA [2, 3] |
| Family ID |
F8752 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
RITNER, Laura Genevieve, b. 17 May 1871, Philadelphia, PA d. 14 Mar 1943, Portland, OR (Age 71 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Mar 1897 |
Fort Keogh, MT [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. MILES, Ruth Ritner, b. 26 Dec 1897, Miles City, MT d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 2. MILES, Helen Genevieve, b. 5 Aug 1899, Miles City, MT d. 22 Mar 1922, Portland, OR (Age 22 years) |
| | 3. MILES, Mary Curtis, b. 23 Aug 1903, Miles City, MT d. 12 Oct 1904, Miles City, MT (Age 1 year) |
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| Family ID |
F10298 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- He graduated from the Mass. Agriculture College, Amherst, in 1875. Aft r the Custer Massacre, we went west with his uncle, Gen. Nelson A. Miles, as clerk of the quartermaster in the army in the Indian war, 1876. After the war, Mr. Miles took up a homestead of 160 acres in the center of what is now Miles City and has lived there since. He is president of the First National Bank and of the YMCA. For 35 years or more he has been superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Presbyterian Church . He owns many business buildings and is head of the Miles & Ulmer Hardware Co.
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| Sources |
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 193.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 192.
- [S1314] Biographical Review of Worcester County, MA, Volume XXX, 1899.
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