WAUPACA RECORD LEADER

June 1, 1916

 

MRS. CAROLINE BRONSON MILLER

 

            Shortly after nine o’clock on Tuesday evening, May 30th, within a few days of her 77th birthday and after a residence of nearly fifty years in the city of Waupaca, Mrs. Caroline Miller passed away at her residence on South Division St.  The end came very peascefully and quietly, following many weary months of weakness and suffering borne with characteristic sweetness and fortitude.

            In the person of Mrs. Miller the community lost one of its strongest characters.  Although confined to her home by growing infirmities for some years back, and laboring under the cross of almost entire deafness, it is not too much to say that the influence she exerted on the life and thought of all with whom she came into contact might well be the envy of those of younger and more robust constitution. She will be sorely missed by a large circle of friends that included those of all ages and every station.

            Caroline Bronson was born on June 9, 1839, in Norway.  She came, whle still but a young child to this country, in company with her parents, who finally settled in Neenah, where, on Oct. 18, 1857, she was married to Mr. N.C. Miller.  In 1868 the young couple came to Waupaca, where for some years Mr. Miller conducted a large and thriving mercantile business, and where he became known as one of the city’s most highly respected and progressive citizens.  He died on July 28, 1879, since which time Mrs. Miller has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Emma Woodward and her granddaughter, Miss Ruth Woodward, by both of whom she is survived.  There

 

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