Brief Life History of Artemus
When Artemus Millet was born on 11 September 1790, in Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Captain Ebenezer Millet, was 58 and his mother, Catherine Dryden, was 37. He married Ruth Grannis on 17 May 1815, in Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He registered for military service in 1850. He died on 19 November 1874, in Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Scipio Pioneer Cemetery, Scipio, Millard, Utah, United States.
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- 1 June 1860 -- Artimus Millet, "United States Census, 1860"
- Artemus Millett, "Family Data Collection - Births"
- Artemus Millett & Nancy Leemaster, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1791 · Upper Canada
Upper Canada 1792 divides Ontario into 19 counties. On September 17 the first Parliament [sic] of Upper Canada assembled.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Leonce, Aime, Aubert, Celine, Herve, Julien, Leandre, Marcel, Monique, Patrice, Raymonde, Roussel.
French and Catalan: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of millet or panic grass, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a field of millet, from French and Catalan millet (from Latin milietum, a derivative of milium, in Old French mil ‘millet’).
French: habitational name from (Le) Millet, the name of several places in various parts of France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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