Brief Life History of Thomas Benjamin
Thomas Benjamin Miller was born in 1840, in Pennsylvania, United States. He married Julia Elizabeth Rumel on 2 June 1870, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died on 2 July 1911, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Thomas Miller, "United States Census, 1910"
- Thomas Benjamin Miller, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"
- Thomas Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1840–1911 Male
1848–1908 Female
Children (2)
1870–1949 Female
1874– Female
World Events (8)
1854
Age 14
1854
Age 14
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
Age 23
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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