Brief Life History of William
When William Miller Jr. was born on 24 September 1815, in Jeffersonville, Jefferson Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States, his father, William Armistead Miller, was 26 and his mother, Lucy Woodson, was 25. He married Elizabeth Hall Fancher on 7 September 1837, in Fayette, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Locust Grove Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Des Moines Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 16 April 1901, in Woodston, Rooks, Kansas, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Survey Cemetery, Woodston, Rooks, Kansas, United States.
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- William Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Miller, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- William Miller in entry for Zelma A Henderson, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1839
Historical Boundaries: 1839: Jefferson, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Jefferson, Iowa, United States
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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