Hiram Owens Miller (1817 - 1867)

Died 19 Oct 1867 at about age 50 in Santa Clara County, California

Hiram Miller was one of 81 pioneers in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.

Biography

Hiram Miller was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

Hiram Miller was part of the infamous Donner Party in 1846. They were trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by snow for 111 days,he was a teamster for the Donner Family.

Hiram Miller left the Donner Party on July 2 1864 to join eight other single men who set out with packmules. This was the Bryant-Russell Party, it was the first group to take Hastings Cutoff.Hiram Miller later helped rescue the trapped emigrants as a member of the Second and Third Reliefs.

Sources

• Donner Party Teamsters
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