John Logan Miller
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Parents
Spouse
Jemima Murry
Jemima Murry
1830 - 1888
Children
Edward Sherman Miller
Edward Sherman Miller
1866 - 1942

1850


Age: 17y
1850 • The first settlers for the settlement of Christchurch arrive at the Port of Lyttelton (New Zealand).

1865


Jun 29
Age: 33y

military


He was in a private in Company A of the 98th Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War. His infantry would have been present at Appomattox as well as for the surrender of General Robert E. Lee.
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1865 Governor of New York Reuben Fenton signs a bill formally creating Cornell University in the United States.

1870


Jun 25
Age: 38y
1870 • In the United States, the newly created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: "High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee... and along the Lakes".

1880


Age: 47y
1880 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza signs a treaty of protection with the chief on the large Teke tribe and begins to establish a French protectorate on the north bank of the Congo River.

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