Lorne C. Miller (1879-1942) son of Edward and Georgiane MacCleane Miller, was born in Crysler, Ontario. In 1887 the family came to Buffalo, North Dakota where Edward was a blacksmith. There were eight children in the Edward Miller family. Lorne attended Buffalo grade school and two years of high school, then went to Drake "U", Des Moines, Iowa to take up pharmacy. He worked in a Buffalo drug store owned by Sam Story, then he managed a drug store in Nome, North Dakota owned by Martin Olson, his brother-in-law, which he purchased and operated along with the post office until his death.
Lorne C. Miller and Ivah Blanche Anderson were married in Jamestown, North Dakota, June 21, 1913. Ivah Anderson (1883) was born in Otterville, Iowa, the daughter of John Thomas and Violet Norcott Anderson. Her father had a general store and was Postmaster; her mother was a dressmaker and milliner. Ivah attended public school and high school. She taught school one year. After the death of her father in 1902, she, her brother and mother came to Jamestown, North Dakota, where her two brothers worked for the railroad. Ivah cared for her invalid mother and worked as a telephone operator and became chief operator. She met her husband over the telephone with the help of Sara Craswell in the Valley City telephone office. One son, Lorne Charles Jr., was born in 1918. He graduated from the Nome High School and graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1934. He went into service with the Navy V-5 in 1942. In 1943 Lorne Jr., and Pricilla Finkenhagen were married in the Congregational Church at Valley City, North Dakota. They have three daughters: Barbara Jane (1944) married J. B. Isakson; Lorna Lu (1948) and Patricia Sue (1950).
Lorne and Ivah Miller belonged to the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Stars of Enderlin and attended the Congregational Church in Valley City along with the Martin Olsons of Fingal.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 159