When David Vinton Miller was born on 27 January 1797, in Point Pleasant, Mason, Virginia, United States, his father, John Miller, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Foust, was 36. He married Rachel KIRKENDAHL on 9 July 1815, in Ross, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Malta, Morgan, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Blue Rock, Muskingum, Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 2 April 1877, in Blue Rock Township, Muskingum, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Van Wert, Ohio, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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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.
Possible Related NamesSource: Draper Manuscripts Compiled by Lyman Copeland Draper Repository: Family History Library; Salt Lake City, Utah Call No. FHL889133 Section 5E p. 53 David Fouts, son of Andrew and Ann Fouts was …
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