Brief Life History of John William
When John William Miller was born on 15 September 1865, in Marion, West Virginia, United States, his father, Nathan Harrison Miller, was 28 and his mother, Sara Ellen Pyles, was 23. He married Annie Fultz on 14 February 1889, in Elizabeth, Wirt, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Grant District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Grant District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States for about 30 years. He died on 18 April 1941, in Mount Clare, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Good Hope Masonic Cemetery, Goodhope, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
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- John Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
- John W Miller, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- John W Miller, "Find a Grave Index"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
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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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