Brief Life History of Leo Gordon
When Leo Gordon Miles was born on 28 September 1920, in Richardson, Nebraska, United States, his father, Jay R Miles, was 48 and his mother, Laura Findlay, was 36. He lived in Grant Township, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Grant Election Precinct, Richardson, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 3 April 2007, in Richardson, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Humboldt, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.
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- Leo Miles in household of Jay R Miles, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Leo Gordon Miles - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Leo Gordon Miles
- Leo Gordon Miles, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 3
1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights
Age 3
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 24
Name Meaning
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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