Elizabeth Ellen Miller

Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ellen

When Elizabeth Ellen Miller was born on 25 September 1832, in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States, her father, Henry William Miller, was 25 and her mother, Elmira Pond, was 21. She married Andrew Quigley Jr on 15 November 1853, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1850 and Oxford, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1880. She died on 2 January 1915, in Swan Lake, Bannock, Idaho, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Oxford, Franklin, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Quigley Jr
1831–1881
Elizabeth Ellen Miller
1832–1915
Marriage: 15 November 1853
Ellen Elmira Quigley
1854–1922
Lucy Celestia Quigley
1856–1908
Andrew Henry Quigley
1857–1875
David Thaddeus Quigley
1860–1936
Alma Miller Quigley
1862–1953
William Quigley
1864–1920
Mary Elizabeth Quigley
1868–1886
Sarah Melvina Quigley
1870–1937
Adelia Quigley
1871–1937
Eveline Quigley
1873–1968
Robert George Quigley
1877–1924
Richard Oliver Quigley
1880–1925

Sources (49)

  • Elizabeth Quigly in household of Andrew Quigly, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Miller - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Elizabeth Ellen Miller
  • Elizabeth Quigley, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1839 · From Swamp to Beautiful Place

By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World

William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.

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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