“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


OSCAR J. MILES, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Johnson’s Creek; born Jan. 29, 
1827, in Clay, Onondaga Co., N.Y. in August, 1846, he came to 
Wisconsin, and located in Aztalan Township, Jefferson Co., where his 
step-father bought forty acres of land and built a log house; the latter 
worked in a saw-mill and afterward in a flour-mill in Jefferson; at his 
death, about 1850, the land was deeded to Mr. Miles; he now owns 130 
acres; he built a frame house in 1853, and his present brick residence in 
1875.  Married Miss Ann Lane, of Farmington, Dec. 31, 1864; have 
three children – Miriam A., born Oct. 12, 1866; Mina G., May 26, 1869; 
Mary-Maud, Sept. 2, 1875.



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