Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 598
JOSEPH S. MILLS

Joseph S. MILLS, located on section 24 of Allen Township, accompanied his parents to Harrison County in 1868. They located in Lincoln Township and bought eighty acres of land, where they still live. Our subject lived with his parents until he was of age, and then went on a fortune-seeking expedition, and acted as a scout in Montana, Black Hills, Wyoming, and one parts of Nebraska, and spent four years freighting in and out of Deadwood, making eight years in all. He then drifted back to Iowa, where he worked a year and a half by the month, and then bought the farm he now occupies, consisting of one hundred and twenty acres, which was partly improved at the time. Among the improvements he added may be named fifty fruit trees, nine hundred and fifty grape vines, and a fence around the entire place.

He was born in Franklin County, N. Y., in March 1858. His parents were Charles and Mehitable MILLS, natives of the Empire State, who reared a family of ten children, of whom our subject was the fourth--Harriet E., Frances M., Walter T., Joseph S., Mehitable S., Elias E., Lilly E., Roxy A., Eva and Charles.

Our subject remained in New York until ten years of age, and then as above related, came to Harrison County. He was married July 21, 1887, to Nettie J. GLOVER, daughter of William and Nancy L., GLOVER. The father was a native of Illinois, while the mother was born in Vermont. They reared a family of ten children, our subject's wife being the second child. The children were as follows: Wilbur A., Nettie J., Hattie B., Elizabeth M., Fannie, Katie A., Thomas W., George C., Nora M., and James I.

Mr. and Mrs. MILLS are the parents of two children--Ward T., born June 27, 1888; and Elsie V., April 3, 1890.

Mr. and Mrs. MILLS are both acceptable members of the Methodist Church, and he belongs to the Farmers' Alliance.

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