Brief Life History of Frederick Erdman
When Frederick Erdman Miller was born on 21 March 1891, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, his father, Carl Ernst Miller, was 28 and his mother, Wilhelmina Caroline Abraham, was 26. He died on 30 June 1944, at the age of 53.
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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- Fred Miller in household of Carl Miller, "United States Census, 1910"
- Fred A Miller in household of Charles E Miller, "United States Census, 1920"
Parents and Siblings
1863–1930 Male
1864–1954 Female
Siblings (10)
1885–1955 Male
1891–1944 Male
1891– Male
1892– Female
1894–1896 Female
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World Events (8)
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
Age 2
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 5
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 15
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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