John Miller

Brief Life History of John

When John Miller was born in February 1868, in Newmarket, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, George Miller, was 34 and his mother, Jeanette, was 34. He married Agnes J. Greenough on 4 September 1889, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1910, at the age of 42.

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John Miller
1868–1910
Agnes J. Greenough
1871–1939
Marriage: 4 September 1889
Jeanette Miller
1889–
Eugene Miller
1891–1891
John Betram Miller
1892–1978
Myrtle A. Miller
1894–1895
Mildred Louise Miller
1894–
Bertram Miller
1896–1990
Esther Miller
1898–1992
Helen Lena Miller
1900–1993
Florence M. Miller
1901–
Francis Miller
1903–1981
Evelyn May Miller
1907–2005
George Miller
1909–1978

Sources (64)

  • John Miller in household of George Miller, "United States Census, 1880"
  • John Miller, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
  • John Miller, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

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.

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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