Brief Life History of Harriet 'Hattie'
When Harriet 'Hattie' Mills was born on 18 May 1854, in Grant, Kentucky, United States, her father, William Andrew Mills, was 41 and her mother, Artemisa Curl, was 41. She married Isaiah J. Samuels on 9 November 1876, in DeWitt, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Barnett Township, DeWitt, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Clinton, DeWitt, Illinois, United States for about 26 years. She died on 16 February 1926, in Clintonia Township, DeWitt, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Clintonia Township, DeWitt, Illinois, United States.
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- Harriett Samuel in household of Isai J Samuel, "United States Census, 1920"
- Harriet Samuels, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Harriet Mills, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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