When James Miller was born on 20 January 1845, in Beaverkill, Rockland, Sullivan, New York, United States, his father, Charles S Miller, was 32 and his mother, Catherine Evaline "Eva" Hawley, was 28. He married Elsie Ophelia Miller on 19 October 1865, in Chickasaw, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Leaf River Township, Wadena, Minnesota, United States in 1880 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 20 March 1908, in Wadena, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Wadena Cemetery, Wadena, Wadena, Minnesota, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Chickasaw, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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