OLIVER MILLS
Oliver Mills was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, February 2, 1821, and is the son of Harlow and Aithan Mills. He was reared in that State, and educated in the common schools and Farmington Academy. In 1850 he went to Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1857 removed to Cass county. He located near Lewis, and entered into the stock business, and brought what he claims was the first herd of Shorthorn pedigree cattle into the county. He has been engaged in the stock business since that time. He was elected in the fall of 1872 as representative in the Legislature, serving one term. He was a director in the State Agricultural Society for its first twenty, and was president of it three successive years. He was one of the trustees who located the State Agricultural College at Ames. He was married in Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Miss Sophia Arnold, a native of New York. They had six children, five of whom are living. Their names are: Edward P., Anna L., Sophia E., George and Frank. Their son John A. died October 2, 1869. He was well and favorably known in the county. Mr. Mills was married a second time April 27, 1876, to Julia Forgy.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 347.
