page_title: Edward David Miles
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Edward David Miles / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Employees of E. D. Miles &amp; Co. Mining Exchange, Charters Towers, Queensland, ca. 1894
context_page_description: Edward David Miles was a businessman, and member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
context_section_description: Miles was born at Pontypridd, Glamorgan, to Robert Miles and his wife, Gwenllian (née David). His family migrated to Australia in late 1862, settling in the Castlemaine district of Victoria. In 1863, Miles headed to Ballarat to take up mining on the Sebastopol Plateau, residing there until 1875 when he travelled to Charters Towers, beginning a long association with the Queensland mining industry.
  For the first four years in Charters Towers, Miles worked as a miner and engine driver before being appointed Town Clerk around 1880. Spending two years in that position, Miles resigned and in partnership with Joe Millican, become a mining agent under the business name of E.D. Miles and Co., Ltd. His former premises, the ED Miles Mining Exchange, survives and is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
caption: Employees of E. D. Miles and Co. Mining Exchange, Charters Towers, Queensland, ca. 1894
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