When William Isaac Miller was born on 7 July 1858, in Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa, United States, his father, William Thomas Miller, was 20 and his mother, Abigail Hockett, was 19. He married Mary Olivia Frazier on 12 February 1880, in Marshall, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Twin Mound Township, Rooks, Kansas, United States in 1885 and Athelstane Township, Clay, Kansas, United States for about 30 years. He died on 28 December 1933, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1863: Idaho, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Boise, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Boise, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Ada, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Ada, Idaho, United States Notes:
1880 United States Federal Population Census; population 1,899
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.
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