Six letters, incoming (1884-1885), to William Goodell Frost concerning his campaign for Lieutenant Governor; speeches concerning temperance; printed writings (1895, 1927, and 1933); newspaper clippings (1884-1888, n.d.) concerning political issues such as temperance, women's suffrage and antislavery , including speeches and letters by Frost, G.F. Wright, and E.A. Paddock; and circulars advertising Frost's speeches (n.d.). Also found here is a notebook of Frost family genealogy, believed to have been compiled by William Goodell Frost; this notebook was formerly filed in the Wesley Frost Papers (RG 30/30).

Additional materials relating to William Goodell and to William Goodell Frost are held by the Archives of Berea College, Berea, Kentucky. For the papers of Wesley Frost, see RG 30/30. Also consult the student files of Wesley Frost, Clarissa Maria Goodell, and William Goodell Frost (RG 28). Consult the Biography Index (vol. 5) for further information about Rhoda Lavinia Goodell. See the Oberlin File (RG 21), I. Family Histories and Genealogies for "Family Stories for My Younger Relatives" (1910) by William Goodell Frost.

George Ervin Miller, merchant of Terhune and gallant ex-soldier, was born in Brown County, Ohio, November 2, 1844. His paternal grandparents were Robert and Mary (Wooster) Miller, who reared a family consisting of the following children - Robert S., John G., Barton, Mary A., Julia A., and Nancy A. His maternal grandfather was William Evans, born 1787 and married in 1813 to Mary Potter, who bore him ten children, namely - Ed P., Samuel J., Martha, William H., Mary J., James K., Elijah, Nathan, Louisa and Lucinda. His second marriage was consummated with Harriet Taylor, the result of which union was four children - Mary J., Jemima, Taylor and Amanda. William Evans was a soldier under General Harrison in the War of 1812, was for a period of forty-five years an elder of the Presbyterian Church and died February 16, 1873. Robert Scott Miller, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Brown County, Ohio, November 22, 1817. He married Mary J. Evans, who was born July 12, 1821, and reared a family consisting of the following children - George E., John W., Robert W., William W., Jane Belle, James E., Caroline, and Sarah F., all living except Caroline, who died at the age of twenty-two years. The mother of the above children died on the twenty-fourth day of January 1875; the father is still living.

George Ervin Miller was reared to manhood in Brown County, Ohio, where he began life for himself as a farmer, owning, at one time there, a well-improved place of 162 ½ acres. He afterwards sold his farm and moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, engaged in carpentering, which he followed for a period of seven years, and then began huckstering, continuing the same about one year. His next move was to Terhune, Boone County, where he opened a general store, which he has since continued, and, at this time, carried a stock amounting to about $7,000 and is in the enjoyment of a large and lucrative patronage in the town and surrounding country. Mr. Miller is a careful businessman, is well known in commercial circles and has a reputation for fair dealing much more than local. He served as Trustee of Marion Township of a period of two years and discharged the duties of the position in a manner highly satisfactory to the public. Mr. Miller has traveled extensively, having visited twenty-one states and territories. Mr. Miller and Louisa T. Summers, daughter of Albert B. and Caroline (Trexler) Summers, were united in the bonds of wedlock May 18, 1865, the result of which union is the following children - Albert S., born April 6, 1867; Mary E., February 18, 1870; Katie B., December 30, 1872; Tillie A., December 7, 1875; Ervin E., November 4, 1878; Chester L., October 7, 1880; Blanch A., July 1, 1882; and Frankie R., April 11, 1888.

Mr. Miller served with distinction in the late rebellion, enlisting at the early age of seventeen in Company E, Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and saw his first active service in Kentucky, going thence through the Kanawha Valley to Fayetteville, a distance of 125 miles, being under fire there for a number of days. From Fayetteville his command went to Chickamauga, Tennessee, but owing to sickness, he did not accompany the regiment, but, instead, was sent to Charleston, and thence on a furlough returned home. On rejoining his command he was placed in company G, Seventeenth invalid corps, and later transferred or detailed to General Hovey's body guard as one of the latter's private escorts. He was one of the soldiers who assisted in the arrest of Horsey, Bowles and Milligan for treason, and at one time assisted in guarding the Confederate prisoners confined at Camp Morton, Indianapolis. He was entrusted at different times with messages of much importance, and became pretty familiar with the inside workings of the conspiracy which, but for the timely discovery, would doubtless have resulted in much aid to the rebellion in the liberation of the Confederates held at Camp Morton. At this camp there were 13,000 rebel prisoners guarded by fifty-one Federals during the day, which numbers, however, was increased at night. Rebel sympathizers, or members of the Knights of the Golden Circle, who planned the release of these prisoners, attached letters to rocks and threw them over the stockade, explaining the scheme to those inside. This scheme was to furnish them with arms, on their release, to enable them to give battle right in the streets of the city. Several boxes marked "Sunday School Books," were unloaded on the "Sentinel" building, and their great weight was the cause of the Governor's attention being called to them; on being opened, the boxes were found to contain revolvers. The Governor, of course, notified the commander of the prison, at once, that there was to be a revolt at a set time, the guards were to be shot, and that the prisoners were to escape. George E. Miller was the trusty messenger to be called from his bed at midnight to carry this dispatch from the private office of General Hovey to the commandant of the camp and take his receipt therefore.

As stated in the preceding paragraph, Mr. Miller has been an extensive traveler, and eh was one of the passengers on the ill-fated train wrecked on the Monon Route January 27, 1890, in which six persons were killed and a great many wounded. In that terrible accident he was severely injured in the shoulder, spine and lower limbs, the nature of which was such as to render him a physical wreck for life. He brought suit for damages against the railroad and received judgment to the amount of $10,000, which judgment has recently been confirmed by the highest court of the state. Politically Mr. Miller is an earnest supporter of the Republican Party, and has been an active worker for upward of thirty years, and is considered as one of the leaders. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, belonging to post No. 103, at Sheridan, Indiana.

Mrs. Miller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1848, and, at the age of ten years, came with her parents to Indianapolis, where she grew to womanhood, was educated in the city schools, and was here when she was married. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Presbyterian Church.