Brief Life History of Emery Temple
When Emery Temple Mills was born on 20 January 1838, in Palmyra, Somerset, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Robert B. Mills, was 24 and his mother, Orilla Heald, was 25. He married Nancy Hews on 30 April 1862, in Contra Costa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Judicial Township 3, Merced, California, United States in 1900. He died on 16 May 1909, in Los Banos, Merced, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- Emery Mills in household of Robert B Mills, "United States Census, 1860"
- Temple E. Mills, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Emery Temple Mills, "California Great Registers, 1866-1910"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1855
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Merced, California, United States
1857 · 7.9 Earthquake In Fort Tejon
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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