Brief Life History of Lidda B
When Lidda B Miller was born on 13 September 1879, in Missouri, United States, her father, William Dellosiur Miller, was 24 and her mother, Matilda Evelyn Honey, was 21. She married Alfred Showler on 16 April 1899, in Laclede, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Smith Township, Laclede, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. She died on 21 November 1964, in Alton, Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Laclede, Missouri, United States.
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- Lydia B Rustin, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lydie Showler, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Lidda Rustin, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
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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