When Gladys Ethelyn Miller was born on 14 August 1891, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Harvey Asariah Miller, was 29 and her mother, Ruth Olive Murray, was 25. She married Albert Leroy Poorman in 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Elk, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1930 and Elk Township, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 24 November 1954, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Elk Cemetery, Elk, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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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