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Mills, Charles A

educator, author.

After receiving his education he began he began educational work. He is also a constant a constant contributor to current literature.

Mills, Charles K

physician, specialist, was born Dec. 4, 1845, near Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated in medicinė from the medical department of the unithe university of Pennsylvania; and was professor of mental diseases and of medical jurmedical jurisprudence in that institution. He has been professor of diseases of the nervous system in the Philadelphia Polytechnic and the Woman's Medical college of Pennsylvania. He has been president of the American Neurological association , and is a prominent member of various medical societies.

Mills, Clark

sculptor, was born Dec. 1, 1815, in Onondaga county, N. Y.

He was the designer of the equestrian statue of Gen. Jackson in Lafayette square, Washington, D. C. The equestrian statue of Washington in Washington circle of the same city is also his work.

The colossal statue of Freedom, eighteen feet high and weighing fifteen tons, crowning the dome of the national capitol, though designed by Crawford, was cast in bronze by Mr. Mills, at Bladensburg.

He died Jan. 12, 1883, in Washington, D. C.

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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 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, J. Warner

lawyer, legal author, was born July 6, 1852, in Lancaster, Wis. In 1875 he graduated from the university of Wisconsin. He is one of the leading lawyers of Denver, Colo., where he is president of the state board of charities and corrections. He is the founder of the jury system of Colorado; and drew the bill giving to women the right of equal suffrage with men in the state of Colorado, and canvassed the state for its approval. He is profoundly interested in social and labor questions, and lectures extensively on those subjects, and gives freely his time to promote equity and justice. He is the editor and part owner of The Legal Adviser of Denver, Colo.

Mills, Job S

educator, clergyman, bishop, sociologist, was born Feb. 28, 1848, in Bartlett, Ohio. He was educated at the Bartlett academy, and the Illinois Wesleyan university, from the latter institution receiving in course the degrees of B. Ph., M. A. and Ph. D.; and also the degree of M. A. from Otterbein university. In 1871 he was ordained a clergyman of the United Brethren church. In 1887 he became professor of English literature and rhetoric in the Western college, Iowa; and in 1889 was elected president of that of that institution, serving also in the chair of chair of mental and moral philosophy. In 1893 Dr. 1893 Dr.

Mills was elected bishop, which position he has filled with distinguished ability.

He has delivered several courses of lecof lectures on sociology and kindred topics.

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 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, Roger Q

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator , was born March 30, 1832, in Todd county, Ky. county, Ky .

He moved to Texas in 1849; was a memwas a member of the Texas legislature in 1859 and 1860; and was colonel of the Tenth Texas regiment. He was elected to congress as congress as a democrat in 1873 and served continuously until he resigned to accept the position of United States senator, to which to which he was elected in 1892. He was re -elected in 1893. was

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 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 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

Millward, John

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a elected a representative from that state to the to the thirty-sixth congress.

Millward, William

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a repa representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.

Milmore, Martin

sculptor, was born Sept. 14, 1844, in Ireland. His principal works are busts of Longfellow, Sumner, and Gen. Thayer. His statues of Ceres, Flora and Pomona are in the Horthe Horticultural hall of Boston, Mass.

Milne, William James

educator, author, was born May 26, 1843, in Scotland. He organized the State Normal and Normal and Training school of Geneseo, N. Y., with which institution he was connected for was connected for eighteen years. In 1889 he became president of the State Normal college of Alcollege of Albany, N. Y. He is the author of a series of mathematical text books for schools enschools entitled the Inductive Series.

Milnes, Alfred

soldier, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born May born May 28, 1844, in England. He has served the city of Coldwater, Mich., as alderman for one term and as mayor for two terms. He terms. He was elected to the state senate in 1888 and 1888 and re-elected in 1890. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Michigan in 1894; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican to fill a vacancy.

Milnes, William

manufacturer, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1827, in England. In 1865 he moved to Virginia and purchased the extensive property located in Page and Rockingham counties known as the Shenandoah Iron works . He was elected to the forty-first congress as a representative from Virginia.

Milnor, James

lawyer, clergyman, congressman, was born June 20, 1773, in Philadelphia, Pa. From 1811 to 1813 he 1813 he was a representative from Pennsylvania in congress. In 1814 he was ordained a clergyman, and in 1816 was called to the rectorship of St. George's church of New York city. He was one of the founders of the New York Deaf and Dumb institution. He died April 8, 1844, in New York city.

Milnor, William

congressman, was born in Philadelphia. He was a represen- *tative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1811, from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1821 to 1822.

Milroy, Robert Huston

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born June 11, 1816, in Washington county, Ind. In the war with war with Mexico he served as he served as captain in the first Indiana volunteers.

He was a member of the constitutional convention of Indiana in 1849-50, and in 1851 was appointed judge of the eighth judicial circuit court of Indiana. At the beginning of the civil war he issued a call for volunteers

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and was made a captain, becoming colonel of the ninth Indiana volunteers in 1861. in 1861.

He died in April, 1890, in Olympia, Wash.

NER, physician, educator, was born March 17, 1819, in Baltimore, Md. He was elected demonstrator of anatomy by the faculty of the university of Maryland, which place he continued to fill until 1852. In 1852 he succeeded to the chair of materia of materia medica, therapeutics, and pathology, and in 1855 he was chosen dean of the faculty

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