Husband Robert Miles 1 2
Born: 2 Apr 1793 - Northumberland Co, PA 2 3
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Died: 11 May 1877 3 4
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Father: Robert Miles ( - ) 2 3
Mother: Katharine Watts ( - ) 2 3
Marriage: 16 Jan 1817 3
• Additional Image: Robert Miles.
Wife Sally Smith 3 4
Born: Abt 1794
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Died: 30 Aug 1882 3 4
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Children
1 F Harriet Miles 4 5
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Spouse: E. N. Rogers ( - ) 4 5
2 M John N. Miles 4 6
Born: - Warren Co, PA
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Died: 1855 - Warren, Warren Co, PA 4 5
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
3 F Catharine Miles 4 5
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Spouse: C. D. Rogers ( - ) 4 5
4 M Dwight Miles 4 5
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5 F Nancy J. Miles 2 7
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Spouse: Alpheus J. Davis ( - ) 8 9
Marr: 1852 7
6 F Sarah Miles 4 5
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Died: 1853 - Jamestown, Chautauqua Co, NY 4 5
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Spouse: Dwight Allen ( - ) 4 5
General Notes: Husband - Robert Miles
He was the sixth of seven children, and like the others, was educated by private tuition till, at the proper age, he was obliged to do his share of work on the large farms which his father had put into cultivation in 1797. It is thus established that the family were among the first to settle in Warren County. He continued on the home farm until the death of his father, when he engaged in the lumber trade, and remained actively and extensively con-nected with that interest until within a few years of his death. He was a vol-unteer soldier in the War of 1812. In 1830 he was elected prothonotary of the courts of Warren County, being the fourth person to hold that office after its separate establishment in Warren County. The infinite variety of his talents impelled him to enlarge perpetually his business interests. He was identified very considerably with mercantile and real estate transactions, most of them involving large amounts. He was one of the first to perceive the probable effect of the discovery of petroleum on business operations, and engaged with ardor in its production. About the year 1859 he erected a refinery a short distance below Warren, and kept it in operation for a number of years. His connection with Warren as a resident of that borough began with the year 1830, when he removed from Pine Grove, the place in which he began the manufacture of lumber.
In politics Robert Miles was a zealous and an influential advocate of the principles of the Whig and Republican parties. In religion he evinced his faith by attaching himself early to the Presbyterian Church. He was very patriotic and public spirited, and to his efforts much of the prosperity of Warren county is to be ascribed. In business he was active and laborious to a degree that would have broken down a more feeble constitution. He was deliberate in forming an opinion, but his decisions were practically irreversible. He was a great reader, and was well versed in general literature, in history and in the chronicles of passing events. It was his habit to preserve carefully a record of all his business transactions. A spirit of benevolence pervaded his character and impelled him to give with great liberality to the support or assistance of those who needed and deserved help. [HWC 1887, 636]
General Notes: Wife - Sally Smith
from Enfield, Hartford Co, CT