They settled in Ohio prior to the birth of Joshua Miller on 21 December 1822.
Aged 12, Miller left for Louisville, Kentucky, where he began working as a carpenter.
Miller subsequently lived in the Missouri Ozarks for one year, then moved into St. Louis.
[1] In 1844, while a resident of Indiana, Miller joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and married Rhoda A. Swindler.
From 1844 to 1855, he intermittently studied law, and subsequently passed the bar in Centerville in 1856.