Brief Life History of Ruth Belle
When Ruth Belle Miller was born on 3 July 1886, in Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Sidney Codington Miller, was 29 and her mother, Jeannie Lucia Fox, was 28. She married Monte Park Beers in June 1914, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Odell, Hood River, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 26 March 1925, in Hood River, Oregon, United States, at the age of 38, and was buried in Idlewilde Cemetery, Hood River, Hood River, Oregon, United States.
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- Ruth Beers in household of M P Beers, "United States Census, 1920"
- Washington, Marriage Records, 1865-2004
- Ruth Belle Miller Beers, Mrs, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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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