Brief Life History of John Houston
When John Houston Miller was born in April 1877, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Lawson Miller, was 34 and his mother, Dicey Edwards, was 30. He married Susan Isabella Mullins on 28 April 1898, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 4 Horse Lick, Jackson, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 29 September 1934, in Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57.
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- John Miller, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Houston Miller - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: John Houston Miller
- John Miller, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
Spouse and Children
1877–1934 Male
1884–1962 Female
Children (4)
1899–1960 Male
1902–1972 Male
1904–1994 Female
1907–1992 Female
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1871–1962 Male
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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1892 · The Radio is invented
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.
Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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