Brief Life History of Miles
When Miles Fish was born on 11 September 1834, in Springville Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Pardon Fish, was 36 and his mother, Amanda Blakeslee, was 31. He married Emeline Bolles on 29 December 1870. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bridgewater Township, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 1 August 1911, in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Montrose, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Miles Fish, "United States Census, 1910"
- Miles Fish, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
- Miles Fish in household of Pardon Fish, "United States Census, 1860"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fish, fisch, fisk ‘fish’ (Old English fisc, Old Norse fiskr), a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized form of German Fisch , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. The surname of Jewish and German origin is also found in Britain.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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