Brief Life History of William Barney
When William Barney Miller was born on 10 July 1898, in Canton, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Alvin Eugene Miller II, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth Nancy Paul, was 19. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Louise M Roosa. He lived in Leroy Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Hornell, Steuben, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died on 4 May 1970, in Wellsville, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Wellsville, Allegany, New York, United States.
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- William B Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
- William B Miller, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- William Barney Miller, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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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