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Miles Pease

8 Jul 1823 – 15 Sep 1879

Birth8 Jul 1823
Death15 Sep 1879
CemeteryPease Family Cemetery
Richville , Douglas County , Missouri , USA
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44827075

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For more on Miles 1846, he was 24 years old and living in Burlington, Vt. (on Lake Champlain) when he married Susan Metcalf. 1847 they were in Vermont where son, Clarence was born. 1848-49 they were in Lowell, Mass. 1850 he was in Burlington (Chittenden Co.), Vt. again where he ran a carden wool mill. 1852 son Clinton was born in Providence, RI 1855, son Myron was born in NH. 1856 they moved west to Minnesota 1859 they moved to Franklin Co, MO 1861 they were in Gasconade Co, Mo 1865 they were in Rolla, Mo 1868 they moved to the SE corner of Douglas Co, MO where Miles died in 1879 In 1856 Miles moved west and settled in Winona county, Minnesota where he made his home for 4 years. His parents and his wife's parents and several of their siblings also moved to Minnesota though not at the same time. Several of Susan's siblings also moved to Minnesota and lived in Winona and/or neighboring Wabasha Co, MN. In 1856, Miles was on a list of all the postmasters in Minnesota: Whitewater Falls - Miles Pease [appointed thru Dec 12, 1856] He was a pioneer of Minnesota and hauled the first printing press ever taken to St. Paul up the Mississippi River from LaCrosse, Wisc. (near where they lived) about 100 miles north to St. Paul. The Sioux Indians were very numerous in the area at that time, but were peaceful. The city of Winona (Winona Co) grew from 813 in 1855 to 2,468 in 1860. Maybe Miles thought it was getting too crowded! It's not known why he and Susan left all their family in Minnesota and moved to Missouri. But in 1859 they moved to Franklin county, Missouri, probably going down the Mississippi River, and there settled near St. Clair where Miles ran a tub factory making wooden tubs and water buckets. [Miles' father, Chris III was still in Vermont in 1860. He eventually moved to Minnesota before 1870, but Miles had already moved on to Missouri. Miles had siblings still in Minnesota though--at least for a while. His parents died in Minnesota in 1873 & 1874.] Miles stayed there 2 years until 1861 when they moved to Gasconade county and ran a steam powered grist mill on the Gasconade River. He was the postmaster at the Oak Hill PO in Gasconade Co, Mo from July 29, 1862 to 9 June 9, 1863. In 1865 they moved to Rolla, Mo. and ran a hotel during the Civil War. About 2 years later (1867) he moved to Arlington (in the same county) and worked in the same business, but that same year they went down into the Springfield, Mo. area and stopped at the Massey Hotel. The people there tried unsuccessfully to get Miles to build a mill in Springfield. He later regretted that he didn't, not knowing at the time what Springfield would become, but he wanted to get further back into the pine timber lands to put in a lumber mill as well as a flour mill. So they moved to the southeast corner of Douglas county. Miles went ahead with George, Myron, & Julius, an old negro, to build a house. On March 17, 1868 they arrived at their new homesite, on the north fork of the White River, and near an immense supply of pine. Here, near the "steel bridge", he built one of the first mills built after the Civil War in that section of the country, and it was patronized for a distance of 40-50 miles. Miles lived on Norfork River near the steel bridge, north of 14 highway a few miles. The settlement was named Richville. Son Myron said that he died of grief (from economic stress and disappointment). Life in southern Missouri was tough and he couldn't seem to make the kind of living that he expected and probably was accustomed to before. He was a businessman though and built a big house (probably log) and he taught all of his sons to be businessmen. Miles was buried on his property near his house and mill, just a little ways off the road. The area had a metal fence around it. Later an outsider bought the place and plowed up the area. 9 children: Clarence Egbert George Albert Ida Maria Clinton Miles Myron Metcalf Alando Moses Ella Louisa Ladaz

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