Lester George Miller

Brief Life History of Lester George

When Lester George Miller was born on 5 January 1911, in Donovan, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, his father, George Fredrick Miller, was 45 and his mother, Carrie Catherine Faupel, was 39. He married Erma May Waterstradt on 18 September 1937, in Iroquois, Illinois, United States. He died on 22 December 2002, in Port Washington, Ozaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Prairie Dell Cemetery, Iroquois, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.

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Lester George Miller
1911–2002
Erma May Waterstradt
1912–2000
Marriage: 18 September 1937

Sources (8)

  • Lester S Miller, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lester George Miller, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Lester G Miller, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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1912 · The Girl Scouts

Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.

1913 · Women get the right to vote in Illinois

Grace Wilbur Trout was elected president of the Chicago Political Equality League and started her presidency by making sure that each senate district was supporting suffrage for women. A few months later, the bill was up for voting in the state. Trout and her team went as far as to get male voters from their homes. The bill passed giving Women the right to vote for President of the Nation and all local offices not in the Illinois Constitution.

1935 · The FBI is Established

The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.

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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