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Colonel Stephen Boyd Miles (January 9, 1822 – October 30, 1898) was a frontiersman, stagecoach magnate, cattle rancher, banker and philanthropist in Nebraska and the greater American Midwest. His obituary in the ''Falls City Journal'' stated, "Mr. Miles was a man of great business ability and accumulated much of this world's goods, and left a fortune gained by hard effort, much of it literally dug in the sweat of his brow from the virgin soil of a new country."〔''Falls City Journal''〕
== Early life ==
He was born in Delta, Pennsylvania, on January 9, 1822. He was the son of Thomas and Sarah Boyd Miles. Stephen's grandfather, Joseph Miles, had immigrated to the American colonies from Liverpool, England, in 1732, and fought during the American Revolution.〔''Illustrated History of Nebraska'' by Julius Sterling Morton, Albert Watkins, George L. Miller, 1907〕
Miles was raised on the family farm. When he was sixteen, he went to work for his uncle, Stephen Boyd, in Boyd's mail contract business. By the age of 22, Miles was able to secure his own mail contract to transport mail between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. In 1845, Miles married Hannah Scarborough. To that union, four children were born: Caroline, Victorine, Joseph, and Samuel. Miles held the Baltimore – Washington, D.C. mail contract for 10 years, until 1854. During this time, he also transported mail in Pennsylvania and Maryland.〔
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