When Thomas Wert Miller was born on 15 June 1855, in Liberty Township, Iron, Missouri, United States, his father, John Wert Miller, was 62 and his mother, Margaret Martha Matthews, was 39. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Iron, Missouri, United States in 1922. In 1922, at the age of 66, his occupation is listed as farmer (death certificate) in Iron, Missouri, United States. He died on 19 January 1922, in Arcadia Township, Iron, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Iron, Missouri, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1857: Iron County created from parts of Madison,Reynolds, St. Francois, Washington, and Wayne counties.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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.
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