Brief Life History of John Elmer
John Elmer Miller was born on 3 March 1864, in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States. He had at least 5 sons and 3 daughters with Lena Arnetta Kretzer. He lived in Browns Grove Township, Pawnee, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Burdett, Pawnee, Kansas, United States for about 5 years. He died on 6 July 1941, at the age of 77, and was buried in Browns Grove Cemetery, Burdett, Pawnee, Kansas, United States.
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- John E Miller, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- John Elmer Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
- J E Miller in entry for Robert Lee Welsh and Nora Armetta Miller, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867
Historical Boundaries: 1867: Hodgeman, Kansas, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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