When George Ingels Miles was born on 26 December 1834, in Milesburg, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Rev. Samuel Miles, was 28 and his mother, Mary Ann Lipton, was 24. He married Elizabeth Ordelia Leonard on 15 June 1854, in Milesburg, Centre, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Chest Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 23 August 1898, in McPherron, Chest Township, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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