D. M. MILES, who carries on general farming on the Manson farm, which is located about four miles east of Piqua, is a native of Miami County and was born January 12, 1873, near Casstown, Ohio, and is a son of Morris and Sarah (Jones) Miles.

Morris Miles was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania, and when quite small came to Ohio with his father, Jonathan Miles, a wagon maker by trade, who located at Tippecanoe City. Here he was reared and educated and subsequently engaged in the nursery business for several years. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in Company E, Forty-fourth Ohio Vol. Inf., and after three years service reenlisted in the cavalry, serving in all a period of four years. He participated in many of the leading battles and was for a time confined in Libby Prison. Upon returning home from the war he married Sarah Jones, a daughter of A. Jones, who was a well known farmer of this section of Miami County. He then located on a farm owned by his wife, about three miles from Casstown, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits the remainder of his life. He died at the age of sixty-nine and his wife died at Troy, aged sixty-eight years. They were the parents of the following., children: Julia A., married E. C. McMillen and resides at Troy; Ella May, married W. Smithley, a farmer of Miami County; D. H., married Mildred Otoums, of Portland, Oregon; D. M., subject of this record; and Homer, who died in infancy.

D. M. Miles, our subject, obtained his educational training in the district schools of the county, afterwards working on the home place until the time of his marriage at the age of twenty-five years with Rillie M. Manson, when he removed to his present farm, where he has since carried on farming in a general way and makes a specialty of buying and shipping hay and straw. Mr. and Mrs. Miles are the parents of three children: Offa A, Leila B. and John A. Mr. Miles is politically identified with the Republican party, and has served in various township offices. He is fraternally a member of the I.O.O.F.