George William Miller

Brief Life History of George William

When George William Miller was born on 28 April 1877, in Mount Vernon, Clark, Missouri, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Miller, was 39 and his mother, Artamissa Millicent Perry, was 23. He married Lora Elizabeth Sutter on 7 February 1898, in Phelps, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. He died on 8 March 1948, in Park Cemetery, Charlotte Township, Bates, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

George William Miller
1877–1948
Lora Elizabeth Sutter
1871–1928
Marriage: 7 February 1898
R Ula Miller
1898–1979
Georgia Wilma Miller
1905–1979

Sources (10)

  • George W Miller, "United States Census, 1900"
  • George W Miller, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • George William Miller, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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