Brief Life History of Clara Amelia
When Clara Amelia Miller was born on 13 January 1896, in Oglesby, LaSalle, Illinois, United States, her father, Charles "Carl" Peter Miller, was 29 and her mother, Amelia Molly Peterson, was 26. She married unknown in 1916, in Norway. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 April 1974, in Granite Quarry, Rowan, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Salisbury, Rowan, North Carolina, United States.
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- Clare A Miller in household of Earnest Packer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Clara A Miller, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Clara Miller Miller, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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World Events (8)
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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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