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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Timothy L. MILLER, cattle-breeder; P. O. Beecher; Mr. Timothy L. MILLER, Hereford cattle-breeder, 
was born in Middletown, Conn., April 7, 1817; moved to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in 1842, and engaged 
in the manufacture of paper; moved to Chicago in 1856, and engaged in the insurance business till 
1870, when he moved to Washington Twp., where he now resides upon his stock-farm of about eight 
hundred acres and pursues the breeding of fine stock. The town of Beecher was laid out by him in 
spring of 1870. He married Miss Abigail Starr ELLIOTT March 2, 1842, in Middletown, Conn.; she 
was born at Gilead, Conn., Sept. 29, 1819, and died in Chicago, Feb. 14, 1858; they had five 
children, four living - Catharine E., born Oct. 6. 1843 (now Mrs. G. B. WOODWARD, of St. Paul, 
Minn.); Abby E. (now Mrs. Frank GOULD, of Chicago), born April 12, 1846; Mary P., born Jan. 3, 
1848 (now Mrs. A. C. REED, of Evanston); Timothy E. born Sept. 23, 1850; one deceased - Henry 
Charles, born Feb. 7, 1858, died Jan. 3, 1861. Married second wife, Miss Anna E. HODGES, at 
Rockford, IL, June 6, 1861; she was born at Clarendon, Vt., July 22, 1828; one child by her 
Abby Hodges, born here July 16, 1865, died Aug. 2, 1865.