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Mills, Daniel W

soldier, merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 25, 1838, near Waynesville, Ohio. From 1877 to 1881 he served as warden of the Cook County hospital, Chicago, Ill.; and was twice elected alderman of his ward. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Mills, Elijah Hunt

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, born Dec. 1, 1776, in Chesterfield, Mass.

He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1819; and a senator in congress from 1820 to 1827. He died May 5, 1829, in Northampton.

Mills, Frederick John

civil engineer, legislator, lieutenant-governor, was born in 1865 in Vermont. Since 1895 he has been state engineer of Idaho. In 1893 he was elected a member of the Idaho legislature; and in 1896 was elected lieutenant-governor of Idaho.

Mills, Henry Edmund

lawyer, author, was born June 24, 1850, in Montrose, Pa. He has attained prominence as a successful lawyer in St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of a work entitled Laws of Eminent Domain.

Mills, Robert

architect, author, was born Aug. 12, 1781, in Charleston , S.

C. He was an architect of Washington, of Washington, and the original designer of the Washington monument. He was the author of Statistics of South Carolina; American Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide; and Guide to the National Executive Offices. He died . He died March 3, 1855, in Washington, D. C.

Mills, Samuel J

clergyman, born April 21, 1783, in Torringford, Conn.

As the father of foreign missions he orhe organized the first society in America to contemplate foreign missions in 1808 ; and in 1817 visited Africa in company with the Rev. E. Burgess, to select a site for a colony, and died on his way home , June 16, 1818.

Mills, Samuel John

clergyman, author, was born May 16, 1743, in Kent, in Kent, Conn. For many years he edited the Conthe Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, and, in addition to various sermons that he preached on special occasions, he published a volume of Sermons Collected. He died May 11, 1833, in Torringford, Conn.

Mills, Mrs. Sarah M

reformer, author, was born May 14, 1820, in Danbury, Conn. She has been a lecturer and volumand voluminous writer on finance, industrial and tariff reforms. She was the vice -president and one of the organizers of the Chicago Philosophical society. She is the author of two philosophical novels, Four Girl Farmers; and Eve and Mary, besides other minor works of fiction and philosophy .

Mills, Sebastian Bach

pianist, composer, was born March 13, 1839, in England. He has appeared in concerts in the United States and in Europe, and is one of the best known of American pianists. Among his numerous compositions are three Tarantelles; Murmuring Fountain; Polonaise; Fairy Fingers; and Recollections of Home; Saltarello; and two two Etudes de Concert.

Mills, William

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1801, in New York city. In 1857 he was presiding justice of the supreme court of New York.

He published an edition of Blackstone's Commentaries, with reference to American cases. He died Oct. 6, 1886, in Morristown, N. J.

Millson, John S

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 1, 1808, in Norfolk, Va. He was elected a representative from Virginia in the thirty-first congress, which position he filled by re-elections until 1860. In 1844 and 1848 he was presidential elector. He died Feb. 26, 1874, in Norfolk, Va.

MILLSPAUGH, FRANK ROSEBROOK, bishop of Kansas, was born April 12, 1848, in Nicholas, N. Y. He is the author of numerous sermons and addresses