Brief Life History of John Franklin
When John Franklin Miller was born on 15 February 1924, in Liverpool, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Albert Shuler Miller, was 29 and his mother, Esther Irene Lower, was 21. He died on 3 November 1999, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Newport, Perry, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Sources (6)
- John Miller in household of Albert Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
- John Franklin Miller, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- John Miller in entry for Mr Gerald Wayne Or Jerry Miller, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
Parents and Siblings
1894–1950 Male
1902–2000 Female
Siblings (14)
1922–2006 Female
1924–1999 Male
1926–2004 Female
1927–1980 Female
1928–2021 Female
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World Events (8)
1927
Age 3
1929
Age 5
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 20
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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