John Elmer Miller

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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Family Time Line

John Elmer Miller
1864–1941
Lena Arnetta Kretzer
1873–1955
Beatrice Ellen Miller
1894–1988
Oakley Miller
1895–1987
Nora Armetta Miller
1897–1962
Leonard Elias Miller
1898–1985
Elsie Leona Miller
1900–1966
Walter Eugene Miller
1909–1987
Paul Elmer Miller
1913–1966
Ralph Dale Miller
1915–1979

Sources (9)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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