When Minnie Grace Miller was born on 25 April 1888, in Rockcreek Township, Wells, Indiana, United States, her father, Frank Theodore Miller, was 28 and her mother, Angeline Matilda Houtz, was 29. She married Ralph Emerson Harnish on 23 December 1909, in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chouteau, Montana, United States in 1920. She died on 16 November 1968, in Fort Benton, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80.
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1888–1955 Male
1888–1968 Female
1910–1991 Male
1860–1930 Male
1858–1953 Female
1884–1959 Male
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1890–1966 Male
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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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