When James Preston Miller was born on 19 March 1826, in Crocus, Green, Kentucky, United States, his father, Adam Miller, was 42 and his mother, Patience Whitson, was 39. He married Luvena E Lester on 15 August 1853, in Rowan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Russell, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Magisterial District 3 Glenville, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 3 March 1905, at the age of 78, and was buried in Crocus, Green, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1845: Russell, Kentucky, United States
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
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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