A ship captain, Oscar had sailed seven seas, when he met Amalia in Oslo. They were married in 1900 and were members of a religious community that failed to agree with the catechism of the state church and were taxed higher for it. The entire community left from Christianstad and went through Ellis Island where the Customs Agent changed the family name to Miller. The community moved to Milwaukee, then to Mattoon, Shawno County, Wisconsin, United States of America, where Oscar worked in the lumber mill. He owned a farm on Cherry Lane and built the buildings in the traditional Scandinavian red with white trim. He is buried in the Lutheran cemetery south of town with Amalia, his daughter, Esther, and his grandson, Harry Oscar Miller. My father was born on Oscar and Amalia's farm and was raised by them during the depression until he went to live with his parents in St. Paul, Minnesota in order to enter grade school. Oscar was my father's first teacher. Though my great grandparents were fluent in English and knew several other languages, only Norwegian was spoken in the home so my father learned English when he entered school. . My father said that Oscar told him of all the seven seas ( he had also sailed both capes), the Great Lakes were the most ferocious as the wave lengths were shorter and collapsed good ships beams in a storm.*
Find-A-Grave: plot 6-62-3E Woodlawn Cemetery, Mattoon, Wisconsin, United States of America, Find A Grave: Memorial #51608665
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