Brief Life History of James Anderson
When James Anderson Miller was born on 18 May 1876, in New Albany, Wilson, Kansas, United States, his father, James Anderson Miller, was 44 and his mother, Mary Ann Irvin, was 34. He married Esta Mina Hale on 17 April 1904, in Johnson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Center Township, Wilson, Kansas, United States in 1880 and East Saline Township, Sheridan, Kansas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 January 1959, at the age of 82, and was buried in Quinter Cemetery, Quinter, Gove, Kansas, United States.
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- James A Miller, "United States Census, 1940"
- James A Miller, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- James Anderson Miller, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1885
Historical Boundaries: 1885: Gove, Kansas, United States
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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