Mills, John M.

MILLS, LEE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/27/2013 at 08:05:01

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

MILLS, JOHN M.—Scott Twp—pg 768. Farmer, section 11, P.O. Brooklyn. Born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1841, where he lived with his parents on a farm until the years of early manhood. In 1855 he went to Green county, Wisconsin, where he farmed till 1859, when he went to Jones county, Iowa, where he remained till 1861, when he came to this county, and after living here one year enlisted, August 15, 1862, in company H, Twenty-eighth Iowa. He was in twelve battles, and was discharged August 13, 1865, at Davenport, Iowa. He married November 15, 1866, Miss Ann Lee, of Warren township. Mr. and Mrs. M. settled in Brooklyn in 1868; they moved onto a farm in Warren township, where, on the night of May 6, 1869, while Mr. M. was absent from home, their house and its contents were consumed by fire, the family barely escaping in their night clothes. They have four girls and three boys, all living at home. In March, 1870, Mr. M. removed to Scott township, where he bought his present farm of eighty acres, on which he has a fine young orchard. He is a live public spirited Republican, and is at present correspondent of three county papers. He was township trustee one term, assessor from 1873 to 1877, clerk of school board from 1874 to 1878, enumerator of tenth census, 1880, and takes an active part in the Sunday-school, being one of the organizers of the Sunday-school in his neighborhood.