He was raised a Quaker and on April 27, 1870, in West Branch, Cedar County, Iowa he married Agnes Randall Minthorn and together they had six children, Maude, Harriet, Theodore, Blanche, Oakley and Laura.
Laban's parents went to work at the Osage Agency for three years in 1873, Benjamin as Superintendent and Prudence as Matron of the Government School there.
In January 1883, Benjamin Miles established a Government Indian School at West Branch, Cedar county, Iowa.
Miles was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as an Indian Agent for the Osage and Kaw Tribes replacing Cyrus Beede.
"Wah'kon-tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road" by John Joseph Mathews, University of Oklahoma Press, 1932 was written using Major Laban J.