RETIRES FROM PRACTICE - M.A. MILLS

MILLS

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 11/5/2009 at 12:08:17

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Iowa
Thursday, January 23, 1913

The first of the year the Journal received a card from Osceola, Neb.,
bearing the following message: "After forty-two years of active and
successful practice of law, thirty-three years of which has been at Osceola,
Neb., we announce the withdrawal of M.A. MILLS from the firm of Mills, Mills
& Beebe and his retirement from the practice. The business will be continued
under the firm name of Mills & Beebe.

Thirty-five years ago M.A. MILLS was a well known practicing attorney of
Leon who will be remembered by many of the older readers of the Journal. He
was a graduate of the law department of the state university and in the
campaign of 1878 came near defeating D.D. Gregory in a race for district
judge. Mr. MILLS was an active and prominent democrat but had a brother in
Harrison County, Missouri, who served throughout the Civil War in the union
armies and was a republican of the most pronounced type. Forty-two years of
successful work in the legal profession is an enviable record and the
Journal wishes Mr. MILLS many years of happiness in his retirement.

At the time Mr. MILLS located in Nebraska the Decatur County Bar was
composed of the following members: J.S. WARNER, JOHN W. HARVEY, E.W. HASKETT
E.W. CURRY, N.P. BULLOCK, MARION F. STOOKEY, S.A. GATES, J.L. YOUNG,
FRANCIS VARGA, FRANK P. WARNER, and N.W. PEASLEY. Judge FORREY had just
retired from the bench after thirteen years service as district and circuit
judge. T.W. SILVERS had migrated to Butler, Mo., where he became eminently
successful in his profession. He has a son who is author of a work on land
titles which is accepted as an authority on that subject. C.W. HOFFMAN and
R.L. PARRISH were law students. Litigation was much greater in those days
than at present and the judges were always behind in the dispatch of court
work. Of the attorneys named J.S. CURRY, J.L. YOUNG, FRANCIS VARGA, F.P.
WARNER and W.W. PEASLEY have crossed the "silent river." N.P. BULLOCK
resides with his son on a farm near Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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