Brief Life History of August
When August Milzer was born on 19 March 1860, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, August Melzer, was 30 and his mother, Sophie Neilzer Schneider, was 28. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870.
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Sources (6)
- August Milzer in household of Sophie Milzer, "United States Census, 1880"
- August Milzer, "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926"
- August Milzer in household of August Milzer, "United States Census, 1870"
Parents and Siblings
1830– Male
1832–1899 Female
Siblings (6)
1855– Male
1858–1922 Male
1860– Male
1861–1943 Male
1863–1922 Male
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World Events (8)
1863
Age 3
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
Age 7
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 36
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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