History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

276 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
Chapter, O. E. S., Amboy, Illinois. Her many excellent qualities
of mind and character have made her widely and favorably known
and she is very popular in social circles.
Mr. Frost is connected fraternally with Lee Center Lodge,
No. 146, A. F. & A. M. ; with Haskell Lodge, No. 1004, I. O. 0. F.
with the Modern Woodmen of America of Lee Center and with
the Order of the Eastern Star. He gives his ]3olitical allegiance
to the republican party and has served for several years as school
trustee. He is vice president of the Northern Illinois Electric
Railroad Company, which was organized about 1911 and which
has completed twelve miles of rail between Amboy, Lee Center and
Rochelle. Mr. Frost's ability is known and recognized in busi-
ness circles and he is regarded as one of the most deservedly suc-
cessful farmers and business men of Lee county.
J. C. MILLER.
Ambition, energy and enter] )rise, guided and cdntrolled by
Bound and |)ractical business judgment, liavo marked tlie basis of
the success of J. C. Miller, who is one of the largest landowners
in Wyoming township and one of the most progressive and successful
farmers and stock-raisers in Lee county. He was born
in Brookhm township, October 10. 1865, a son of Conrad and
Cathei'ine (Sinner) J\liller, natives of Germany. The parents
came from that country in 1S5S and settled first at Perkins
Grove, in Lee coimty. The father was at that time without capital
and in a strange coiuitry, but with characteristic courage and
determination he began farming on rented land and after eight
years had accumulated enough money to purchase an eighty acre
tract in Brooklyn townsliip. This he bought for twenty-five dol-
lars per acre and he labored at its cultivation until his death,
which occurred June 9, 1867. He is buried in the Perkins Grove
cemetery and his wife survives him. She makes her home in North
Dixon and is now seventy-two years of age.
J. C. Miller acquired his education in the district schools of
Brooklyn township and in Naper'\dlle College. He began his
in