Esther M Miller

Brief Life History of Esther M

When Esther M Miller was born in February 1877, in Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Jerome Martin Miller, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Ann Sawyer, was 24. She married James Henry Crowther on 26 June 1898, in Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Ephrata Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Akron, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died in 1957, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ephrata, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Henry Crowther
1872–1943
Esther M Miller
1877–1957
Marriage: 26 June 1898
Jerome Miller Crowther
1898–1966
Beatrice Lillian Crowther
1900–1980
Emily Mae Crowther
1902–1988
Ethel Jeanette Crowther
1904–1980
Esther Miller Crowther
1906–1989
William Henry Crowther
1907–1991
Gertrude Margaret Crowther
1909–2000
George Crowther
1910–1911
James Henry Crowther
1911–1997
Naomi C Crowther
1912–2008
Minerva Crowther
1914–2009
Leroy Miller Crowther
1916–2000
Irene Crowther
1917–1978
Charles M Crowther
1918–2000
Theodore M. Crowther
1921–2014

Sources (19)

  • Esther M Cro*Ther in household of James H Cro*Ther, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Ester Miller, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Esther Miller Crowther, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages

Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.

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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