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Memento Mori
Hiram Miller
March 9, 1839 – October 11, 1907
Lived 68 years
McComas Methodist Cemetery · Price Township, PA
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Life story
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Lifetime
The world Hiram knew
Family milestones in gold, history for context
1839
Born March 9
1848
Hiram was 9 when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California
1857
Hiram was 18 when James Lord Pierpont's song "Jingle Bells" was first published as "The One Horse Open Sleigh"
1861
Hiram was 22 when the Civil War began at Fort Sumter
1879
Hiram was 40 when Thomas Edison demonstrated a long-lasting light bulb
1886
Hiram was 47 when Coca-Cola was first sold at a drugstore in Atlanta
1892
Hiram was 53 when Ellis Island opened to welcome immigrants
1902
Hiram was 63 when the teddy bear was born, named for Theodore Roosevelt
1907
Passed away October 11, age 68
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