Brief Life History of Jacob
When Jacob Miller was born in 1841, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, his father, James J Miller, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Searcy, was 26. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1860. He died on 13 April 1861, at the age of 20.
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- Jacob Demel in household of Jno Demel, "United States Census, 1860"
- Jacob Miller, "Utah Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 1847-1868"
- Jacob Blezard in household of John H Blezard, "United States Census, 1850"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Iowa is the 29th state.
1847 · The Great Seal of the State of Iowa is made
The Great Seal of the State of Iowa was created in 1847 and depicts a soldier standing in a wheat field surrounded by symbols including farming, mining, and transportation with the Mississippi River in the background. An eagle overhead bears the state motto.
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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