Son of Christian Troup and Sarah Miller.
Never married
Lewis was the first born of eight known siblings. He was undoubtedly named after his maternal grandfather, Ludwig "Lewis" Miller, a Revolutionary War veteran, farmer, businessman and distiller in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He may have been born in Cumberland County where his parents were married in 1828 and lived for several years before moving to Ohio. His father was a United Brethren minister and missionary who continually worked his way west. Lewis accompanied his parents when they were among the first settlers in the Iowa "Wilderness" about 1837 after the Black Hawk Wars, in a place that became Lisbon, Linn County. Here his parents remained the most of their lives, his father dying in 1850 and his mother moving with the family after her husband's death to Linn, Washington County, Kansas, dying there in 1878.
Family tradition says he went to California with the Gold Rush, most probably a later one in Humboldt County, as he is still living at home in Iowa in 1850. He is difficult to trace after 1850 but definitely was in Humboldt County according to 1888-1905 voters registrations and in the 1900 census, returned as a farmer residing various places in that county: Eureka, Spruce Grove and the South Fork Township.
He may have followed his sister, Sarah Ann Troup, who had married Asa Shin Harrow, in 1850 back in Iowa, and are definitely in the Hydesville area in Humboldt County in the 1860's.
Life in Humboldt County during that time proved to be a trying existence. The initial gold strikes played out early, and due to poor transportation and communication there was little industrial or business development and few jobs to be had. Lewis appears to have led a hard scrabble life ameliorated only by close kin, including other collateral relatives, who came to the area.
He died most probably in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, where another of his sisters, Rachel Elizabeth, lived with her family on a relatively prosperous farm. He is buried in the family plot in Sebastopol.
Never married
Lewis was the first born of eight known siblings. He was undoubtedly named after his maternal grandfather, Ludwig "Lewis" Miller, a Revolutionary War veteran, farmer, businessman and distiller in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He may have been born in Cumberland County where his parents were married in 1828 and lived for several years before moving to Ohio. His father was a United Brethren minister and missionary who continually worked his way west. Lewis accompanied his parents when they were among the first settlers in the Iowa "Wilderness" about 1837 after the Black Hawk Wars, in a place that became Lisbon, Linn County. Here his parents remained the most of their lives, his father dying in 1850 and his mother moving with the family after her husband's death to Linn, Washington County, Kansas, dying there in 1878.
Family tradition says he went to California with the Gold Rush, most probably a later one in Humboldt County, as he is still living at home in Iowa in 1850. He is difficult to trace after 1850 but definitely was in Humboldt County according to 1888-1905 voters registrations and in the 1900 census, returned as a farmer residing various places in that county: Eureka, Spruce Grove and the South Fork Township.
He may have followed his sister, Sarah Ann Troup, who had married Asa Shin Harrow, in 1850 back in Iowa, and are definitely in the Hydesville area in Humboldt County in the 1860's.
Life in Humboldt County during that time proved to be a trying existence. The initial gold strikes played out early, and due to poor transportation and communication there was little industrial or business development and few jobs to be had. Lewis appears to have led a hard scrabble life ameliorated only by close kin, including other collateral relatives, who came to the area.
He died most probably in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, where another of his sisters, Rachel Elizabeth, lived with her family on a relatively prosperous farm. He is buried in the family plot in Sebastopol.
Son of Christian Troup and Sarah Miller.
Never married
Lewis was the first born of eight known siblings. He was undoubtedly named after his maternal grandfather, Ludwig "Lewis" Miller, a Revolutionary War veteran, farmer, businessman and distiller in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He may have been born in Cumberland County where his parents were married in 1828 and lived for several years before moving to Ohio. His father was a United Brethren minister and missionary who continually worked his way west. Lewis accompanied his parents when they were among the first settlers in the Iowa "Wilderness" about 1837 after the Black Hawk Wars, in a place that became Lisbon, Linn County. Here his parents remained the most of their lives, his father dying in 1850 and his mother moving with the family after her husband's death to Linn, Washington County, Kansas, dying there in 1878.
Family tradition says he went to California with the Gold Rush, most probably a later one in Humboldt County, as he is still living at home in Iowa in 1850. He is difficult to trace after 1850 but definitely was in Humboldt County according to 1888-1905 voters registrations and in the 1900 census, returned as a farmer residing various places in that county: Eureka, Spruce Grove and the South Fork Township.
He may have followed his sister, Sarah Ann Troup, who had married Asa Shin Harrow, in 1850 back in Iowa, and are definitely in the Hydesville area in Humboldt County in the 1860's.
Life in Humboldt County during that time proved to be a trying existence. The initial gold strikes played out early, and due to poor transportation and communication there was little industrial or business development and few jobs to be had. Lewis appears to have led a hard scrabble life ameliorated only by close kin, including other collateral relatives, who came to the area.
He died most probably in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, where another of his sisters, Rachel Elizabeth, lived with her family on a relatively prosperous farm. He is buried in the family plot in Sebastopol.
Never married
Lewis was the first born of eight known siblings. He was undoubtedly named after his maternal grandfather, Ludwig "Lewis" Miller, a Revolutionary War veteran, farmer, businessman and distiller in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He may have been born in Cumberland County where his parents were married in 1828 and lived for several years before moving to Ohio. His father was a United Brethren minister and missionary who continually worked his way west. Lewis accompanied his parents when they were among the first settlers in the Iowa "Wilderness" about 1837 after the Black Hawk Wars, in a place that became Lisbon, Linn County. Here his parents remained the most of their lives, his father dying in 1850 and his mother moving with the family after her husband's death to Linn, Washington County, Kansas, dying there in 1878.
Family tradition says he went to California with the Gold Rush, most probably a later one in Humboldt County, as he is still living at home in Iowa in 1850. He is difficult to trace after 1850 but definitely was in Humboldt County according to 1888-1905 voters registrations and in the 1900 census, returned as a farmer residing various places in that county: Eureka, Spruce Grove and the South Fork Township.
He may have followed his sister, Sarah Ann Troup, who had married Asa Shin Harrow, in 1850 back in Iowa, and are definitely in the Hydesville area in Humboldt County in the 1860's.
Life in Humboldt County during that time proved to be a trying existence. The initial gold strikes played out early, and due to poor transportation and communication there was little industrial or business development and few jobs to be had. Lewis appears to have led a hard scrabble life ameliorated only by close kin, including other collateral relatives, who came to the area.
He died most probably in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, where another of his sisters, Rachel Elizabeth, lived with her family on a relatively prosperous farm. He is buried in the family plot in Sebastopol.
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