When Robert Gray Miles was born on 6 September 1862, in Jordan Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Ingels Miles, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Ordelia Leonard, was 28. He married Rachel Gorman on 28 August 1894, in Hollidaysburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Chest Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 10 December 1920, in New Castle, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 58.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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