Brief Life History of Ross Eby
When Ross Eby Miller was born on 1 December 1911, in Olathe, Montrose, Colorado, United States, his father, Martin Elmore Miller, was 19 and his mother, Nelda Louisa Ross, was 19. He married Doris Dorcas Kropfli on 15 July 1933, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1950 and Puyallup, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1998. He died on 23 May 1993, in Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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- Ross Miller, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ross Eby Miller - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ross Eby Miller
- Ross E B U Miller, "Oregon, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
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1912 · Women Granted Right to Vote
Women were granted the right to vote in Oregon on November 5, 1912, with 52% of male voters in favor.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
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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