Robert Vincent Miller

Brief Life History of Robert Vincent

When Robert Vincent Miller was born on 11 October 1917, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, his father, August Miller, was 37 and his mother, Caroline Werner, was 30. He married Lois Cecilia Johnson on 25 November 1948, in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1940. He died on 31 July 1990, in Levittown, Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Nassau Knolls Cemetery, Port Washington, North Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Vincent Miller
1917–1990
Lois Cecilia Johnson
1927–1998
Marriage: 25 November 1948
Gary Robert Miller
1953–2000

Sources (3)

  • Robt V Miller, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Robert V Miller, "New York Records of the State National Guard, 1906-1954"
  • Robert Miller in household of August Miller, "United States Census, 1930"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1937 · The Neutrality Act

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

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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