Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Miller was born on 16 September 1798, in Washington Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Miller, was 27 and her mother, Salome Miller, was 24. She married John Cooper in 1818. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 23 December 1882, in Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rife, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Cooper in household of John Cooper, "United States Census, 1870"
- Anna Maria Miller, "Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950"
- Mary Miller Cooper, "Find A Grave Index"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1813
Historical Boundaries 1813: Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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