Addie Dickman Miller

[2] At the end of her first year, she married George McAnelly Miller, a former Chicago prosecuting attorney[4] and professor of ancient languages at Avalon College.

[2] Addie taught German and superintended the young women's department, while George was the college president.

[2] For a time in the late 1880s, the couple lived in Portland, Oregon, where Addie gave up teaching for writing and working in the temperance movement.

[2] For a few years, Addie edited the women's section of West Shore, a Portland periodical.

[5] In 1907, the Millers and their four children moved to what is now Ruskin, Florida, where on August 7, 1908, Addie set up a post office; this date is taken to be the town's official founding day.