Brief Life History of Samuel Preston
When Dr Samuel Preston Miller was born on 21 August 1864, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, his father, James Preston Miller, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Ann Mcclure, was 25. He married Susan Margaret Patteson on 3 March 1888, in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 3 Glenville, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 February 1936, in Adair, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Columbia Cemetery, Columbia, Adair, Kentucky, United States.
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- Frank Miller, "United States Census, 1900"
- Samuel P Miller, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Samuel Preston Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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