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John T. Miller (Lexington, Kentucky, hardware merchant and councilman)

b. 1825-02-08

Lexington, Kentucky, hardware merchant and councilman. Georgetown, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph F. Miller and Matilda Miller. Married to Mary H. Shely Miller. Father of Eugene Miller, Edward Miller, Irvin W. Miller, John W. Miller, Victor D. Miller, and Mollie Miller. Clerk in father's store in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Hardware store merchant in Lexington from 1852 to 1876. Owned one enslaved person in 1860. Member of the Lexington City Council from 1862 to 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

William Henry Perrin, ed., *History of Fayette County, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin & Co., 1882), p. 663-664. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 146. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 87. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 49. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 26.

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Miller, John T.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201159 (November 12, 2026).

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