David Frasher Miller

Brief Life History of David Frasher

When David Frasher Miller was born on 27 May 1831, in Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Adam Miller, was 26 and his mother, Charlotte Frasher, was 23. He married Angeline Pauline Bortner about 1868, in York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Springfield Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 29 June 1906, in Codorus Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Saint Jacobs Stone Church Cemetery, Glenville, York, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

David Frasher Miller
1831–1906
Angeline Pauline Bortner
1843–1883
Marriage: about 1868
Levi Bortner Miller
1864–1946
William Henry Bortner Miller
1865–1946
Jacob Miller
1867–1868
Alice Bortner Miller
1869–1960
Jemima Miller
1871–1880
Joanna Miller
1871–
Howard Bortner Miller
1872–1952
Annie Catherine Miller
1877–1881
Miller
1883–1883

Sources (21)

  • D F Miller, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: David F Miller - Government record: birth: 29 April 1831; York, Pennsylvania, United States
  • David F Mills, "Pennsylvania Deaths and Burials, 1720-1999"

World Events (8)

1832 · The Black Hawk War

Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.

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.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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