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Arrived 1830 or 1831
The tie, exactly: settler, 1830 on Howard's roll — "Adam Miller, a Baptist preacher" — with Chapman's chapter giving his coming as 1830 or 1831. The one-line difference is printed, not settled: the histories do not agree to the year, and no third source first-hand breaks the tie.
The course: a preacher in the settlement's first party is a fact about the settlement as much as about the man: Harris Prairie had a Baptist voice from its first year, a generation before the township's churches were organized and built — the Christian Church on the prairie was not organized until 7 January 1863, on Chapman's record, and the congregations' own courses belong to this build's Religion section. Of Miller himself — his congregation, his farm, his end — the histories say nothing further, and he stands at the roll's strength: a named profession, a disputed year, and the first pulpit, such as it was, on this ground.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), ch. V, §3 — Miller in the 1830 party, Baptist preacher.
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township chapter — arrival 1830 or 1831; the Christian Church organization of 1863 for the congregational contrast.