When John Howard Millard was born about 1820, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Millard, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Wheeler, was 19. He married Jane Eliza Hembury about 1842. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Wedmore, Somerset, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 26 January 1874, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 55.
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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.
The Factory Act restricted the hours women and children could work in textile mills. No child under the age of 9 were allowed to work, and children ages 9-13 could not work longer than 9 hours per day. Children up to the age of 13 were required to receive at least two hours of schooling, six days per week.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: variant of Millward .
French and German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements mil ‘good, gracious’ + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’. Compare Milord .
French (southern): from a variant of Occitan milhar ‘millet field’, a derivative of mil ‘millet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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