Brief Life History of Alva Emerson
When Alva Emerson Mill was born on 29 September 1865, in Mountain, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Eli Mill, was 32 and his mother, Mary Ann Van Camp, was 42. He married Louise Delano Lalone on 21 December 1888, in Oxford Mills, North Grenville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1912 and lived in Harrison Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Carroll, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 24 May 1928, in Carroll, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Dunlap, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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- Alva Mill, "United States Census, 1920"
- Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1856-1940
- Alva Mill, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1867 · The Burtis Opera House
The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, from Middle English mille, melle, mulle ‘mill’ (assimilated forms of Old English mylen). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Mill, a short form of Millicent (compare Millett ) or perhaps from a variant of the Middle English male personal name Mile (see Miles ).
Dutch (Van Mill): habitational name from Mill in North Brabant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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