Ferris Wakefield Miles was born in Smithfield, Utah June 29, 1904 the son of Franklin Wakefield Miles and Amanda Amelia Nielsen Miles. He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1923. He married Elizabeth Howland Campbell in 1931. He died July 22, 1982 in San Mateo, California and was buried in the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California.