Hyrum Smith Miller

Brief Life History of Hyrum Smith

When Hyrum Smith Miller was born on 4 May 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Henry William Miller, was 40 and his mother, Elmira Pond, was 36. He married Amelia Caroline Smithson on 8 May 1870, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Aurum, White Pine, Nevada, United States in 1900 and Black Horse, White Pine, Nevada, United States in 1910. He died on 28 December 1932, in White Pine, Nevada, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in White Pine, Nevada, United States.

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Family Time Line

Hyrum Smith Miller
1847–1932
Amelia Caroline Smithson
1848–1919
Marriage: 8 May 1870
Hyrum William Miller
1872–1921
John Bartley Miller
1874–1874
Gregg Henry Miller
1875–1943
Elvira Almina Miller
1878–1957
Charles Sterling Miller
1880–1952
Roland Hugh Miller
1882–1913
Caroline Lucinda Miller
1884–1949
Herbert Arnold Miller
1887–1966

Sources (26)

  • H S Miller, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Hyrum S Miller, "Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992"
  • Hyrum Smith Miller, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1848

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Davis, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Davis, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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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