Brief Life History of Phoebe Ellen
When Phoebe Ellen Miller was born on 18 September 1876, in Tama, Iowa, United States, her father, Solomon Miller, was 40 and her mother, Lydia Birks, was 34. She married Henry Harrison Lackey Gile on 12 October 1895. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Palo Alto, Iowa, United States in 1925 and Highland Township, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 2 September 1938, in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa, United States.
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- Phoile Gile in household of Henry H Gile, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- Legacy NFS Source: Phoebe Ellen Miller - Government record: Census record: birth: 1876; Marshall, Iowa, United States
- Phobe Miller, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1884 · There is now a Capital Building
The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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