When Charles Floyd Miles was born on 4 February 1870, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, his father, John William Miles, was 27 and his mother, Dicey Ann Standley, was 36. He married Lula Smith on 20 January 1892. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Morris Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Arapahoe, Colorado, United States in 1900. He died on 7 January 1901, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Coloma, Carroll, Missouri, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
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.
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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