Brief Life History of Miles Dewey
When Miles Dewey James was born in 1899, in New Cumberland, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Charles Halich James, was 33 and his mother, Bertha E. Moyer, was 25. He married Mable Rehrer on 7 November 1942. He lived in Lower Allen Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and United States in 1949. He died in 1985, in Camp Hill, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rolling Green Memorial Park, Camp Hill, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Miles James, "United States 1950 Census"
- Miles D James, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Miles Dewey James, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1908
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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