Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. pp. 1002-1003.

CHARLES MARCHANT MILLER is a native of Wells County, Indiana, born near Murray, Lancaster Township, May 20, 1851. He is the third of five sons and one of ten children of Jacob and Mary (Sutton) MILLER. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, and came to Wells County in 1837. He is by trade a millwright, but was employed as a miller when he first came to the county, afterward settling on a farm in Lancaster Township, where he still lives. The mother of our subject is a native of Licking County, Ohio, a daughter of Rev. Elijah Sutton, a pioneer Baptist minister, of Wells Connty. Charles M. Miller lived on the home farm until seventeen years of age, where he was variously employed, teaching school during the winter seasons. At his own expense he attended the graded schools of Bluffton, and in 1873, with James Sewell, engaged in the mercantile business at Murray, the firm of MILLER & Sewell continuing until the following fall, when L. F. Shreve succeeded Mr. Sewell. In 1879 he retired from the firm, and the following year was employed as clerk for G. F. McFarsen. From 1880 until 1883 he was in the employ of H. C. Arnold, and from 1883 until 1886 was in the grocery business at Bluffton, and in the latter year he was employed by H. C. Arnold to buy grain. In November, 1886, he was elected auditor of Wells County, his duties beginning in November, 1887. Mr. Miller was married September 27, 1877, to Miss Lizzie Burgan, a native of Wells County, daughter of George and Sarah (Widmer) Burgan. They have one child: Guy Burgan, born July 18, 1878. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Miller is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a member of both lodge and chapter at Bluffton.