Brief Life History of Oliver
When Oliver Miller Jr. was born in 1812, in Wesley Township, Washington, Ohio, United States, his father, Oliver Miller, was 45 and his mother, Levinia Ball, was 43. He married Mary M. Tilton on 5 November 1835, in Washington, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 5 January 1840, in Washington, Ohio, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Layman, Washington, Ohio, United States.
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- Oliver Miller, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Oliver Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
- Washington County Ohio Court of Common Pleas
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1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · War of 1812
Because of the outbreak of war from Napoleonic France, Britain decided to blockade the trade between the United States and the French. The US then fought this action and said it was illegal under international law. Britain supplied Native Americans who raided settlers living on the frontier and halting expansion westward. In 1814, one of the British raids stormed into Washington D.C. burning down the capital. Neither the Americans or the British wanted to continue fighting, so negotiations of peace began. After Treaty of Ghent was signed, Unaware of the treaty, British forces invaded Louisiana but were defeated in January 1815.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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Oliver & Mary Miller of Washington County, Ohio - Deeds
Source: Washington County Ohio Deed Books Repository: Family History Library; Salt Lake City, Utah Call No. FHL935947 and FHL941413 1836-August 17: Seth Jones of Vermillion County, Indiana to Oliver …
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