Jean Baptiste Gauce Miller Family
Photo: Anata Vidrine Miller & Gus Miller With Eraste Guillory
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Jean Baptiste "Gus" Gauce Miller was a life-long resident of Evangeline Parish, and one of the largest independent rice growers in central Louisiana and owned a well developed and splendidly watered plantation situated near Vidrine. Mr. Miller began growing rice on a small scale in 1905, his first planting being about twenty acres. For a quarter of a century he had been growing rice on a commercial basis.
He was born on a plantation about seven miles northwest of Ville Platte, where his present residence is
located; on May 13, 1885. His education was obtained in the public schools and to a great extent from the
school of experience. Difficulties experienced during his youth in obtaining an education had caused Mr.
Miller, in later life, to be a staunch and enthusiastic supporter of the public school system.
He had been a member of the Evangeline Parish Police Jury since 1915, and served as president of the board for seventeen years, resigning in 1938 because of ill health.
Mr. Miller spent a number of years developing a lake of thirty-five hundred acres, located six miles from Ville Platte, from which he obtained water for his rice growing operations and which is also well stocked with game fish. In 1933, he organized the Miller's Lake Hunting Club, known throughout the United States.
Few men in Evangeline Parish have done more for the public good then Mr. J. Bte. Gus Miller, who had won
the friendship of hundreds of citizens of this area for his self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of education and the general welfare of this parish.
Purchase this hardbound book or the softbound without pictures
See Table of Contents or Index of people included in this book. See photos included in this book.
Jean Baptiste "Gus" Gauce Miller was a life-long resident of Evangeline Parish, and one of the largest independent rice growers in central Louisiana and owned a well developed and splendidly watered plantation situated near Vidrine. Mr. Miller began growing rice on a small scale in 1905, his first planting being about twenty acres. For a quarter of a century he had been growing rice on a commercial basis.
He was born on a plantation about seven miles northwest of Ville Platte, where his present residence is
located; on May 13, 1885. His education was obtained in the public schools and to a great extent from the
school of experience. Difficulties experienced during his youth in obtaining an education had caused Mr.
Miller, in later life, to be a staunch and enthusiastic supporter of the public school system.
He had been a member of the Evangeline Parish Police Jury since 1915, and served as president of the board for seventeen years, resigning in 1938 because of ill health.
Mr. Miller spent a number of years developing a lake of thirty-five hundred acres, located six miles from Ville Platte, from which he obtained water for his rice growing operations and which is also well stocked with game fish. In 1933, he organized the Miller's Lake Hunting Club, known throughout the United States.
Few men in Evangeline Parish have done more for the public good then Mr. J. Bte. Gus Miller, who had won
the friendship of hundreds of citizens of this area for his self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of education and the general welfare of this parish.
