Edgar Delano Miller

Brief Life History of Edgar Delano

When Edgar Delano Miller was born on 20 May 1866, in Mingo Junction, Steubenville Township, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, his father, Reece Miller, was 46 and his mother, Ophelia Diane Meade, was 42. He married Charlotte Pickett on 22 February 1888, in Iveyville, Adams, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Quincy Township, Adams, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 17 July 1936, in Hemet, Riverside, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, San Jacinto, Riverside, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edgar Delano Miller
1866–1936
Charlotte Pickett
1871–1953
Marriage: 22 February 1888
Erwin Rees Miller
1888–1964
Harold Lawrence Miller
1890–1976
Arthur LeRoy Miller
1895–1945
Helen Ethel Miller
1897–1984

Sources (25)

  • Edgar Miller in household of Rus Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Edgar D. Miller, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
  • Edgar Miller, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

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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 The Amendment was later repealed.

1867 · The Burtis Opera House

The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.

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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