When Benjamin Franklin Miller was born on 30 June 1855, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, his father, Owen Miller, was 28 and his mother, Matilda Puckett, was 25. He married Syrena Ann Trent on 9 December 1878, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Torrent, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years and Campton, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 3 May 1931, in Wolfe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rogers, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1860: Wolfe, Kentucky, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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.
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