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

1850


Age: 17y
1850 • The temperance organisation, International Organisation of Good Templars, is established in Utica, New York, as the order of the Knights of Jericho.

1860


Age: 27y
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn, Massachusetts, strike successfully for higher wages. The strike spreads throughout New England and eventually involves 20,000 workers.

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 • American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, which is taken by Union troops the next day.

1870


Jun 25
Age: 38y
1870 • Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.

1903


Mar 2
Age: 71y
1903 • The first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east-west broadcast having been made in 1901).

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