Ara W. Miles

Female1886–1886

Brief Life History of Ara W.

When Ara W. Miles was born in 1886, in Tipp City, Miami, Ohio, United States, her father, Ahijah Washington Miles, was 47 and her mother, Jennie Miles, was 38. She died in 1886, in her hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Tipp City, Miami, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Ahijah Washington Miles
1839–1933
Jennie Miles
1848–1886
Ara W. Miles
1886–1886

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  • Ara W Miles, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (2)

1886

Age 0

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

Age 0

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .

English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).

Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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