Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 966
CHARLES MILLS

Charles MILLS, located on section 32, of Lincoln Township, Harrison County, in August, 1867, and in the spring of 1868 became a permanent resident. He bought eighty acres of wild land, now a part of his present farm. He built a house 18x28 feet, stables, cribs, etc., and set out an orchard of three hundred trees. He fenced his place with wire and improved it with an artificial grove.

Mr. MILLS was born in Russelltown, Canada, in December, 1828. He is the son of John and Maria MILLS, natives of Vermont, who reared a family of nine children, he being the fourth in order � Judith, John, deceased; Hannah, Charles, Thomas, deceased; Deborah; Mary, deceased; John, deceased, and Helen, deceased.

Charles lived in Canada until six years of age, and then accompanied his parents to Clinton County, N.Y., where they engaged in farming and remained there until 1849, when our subject went to Franklin County, and bought one hundred acres of land. In 1882 he enlisted in the On Hundred and Forty-second New York Regiment and was sent from Ogdensburg to Fairfax Courthouse. His first engagement was a Fredericksburg, he being in the Army of the Potomac. During his service he lost one finger. He was mustered out at Arlington Heights, In June, 1865, arriving home on the 26th of that month, and found his wife hoeing potatoes upon his return, which however she quit for that day! They remained on this farm until coming to Iowa.

Mr. MILLS was united in marriage March 31, 1849, to Mehitabel LADD, the daughter of Ezekiel and Catherine LADD, natives of New York State, who had eleven children, our subject's wife being the seventh in order of birth, and of whom only three are still living. their names are as follows � Eliza, an infant, Catherine, Mordecai, John, Alice, Delana, Mehitable, Catherine, Mary and Ezekiel.

Mr. and Mrs. MILLS are the parents of ten children, all of whom are living. they were born in the following order � Harriett E., Francis M., Walter T., Schuyler J., Mehitable E., Lillie E., Roxy E., Elias E., Eva and Charles A.

When our subject enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War he was the father of five children, the youngest being only eleven days old and it is quite evident that he went into the army out of patriotism, because he only received a bounty of $50.

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