Bio: Mills, Samuel &Alderman,
Nettie
Contact: Stan
----Source:
Sun, 11 Feb
2001,
1918 History of
Clark Co., WI, by Franklyn, Curtiss-Wedge
Surname: MILLS, COGSWELL, ALDERMAN, FLEMMING
Samuel Mills,
1846 SAMUEL MILLS, who has resided in Thorp Township for twenty-one years,
engaged in agriculture, is a native of Canada, having been born in the
province of New Brunswick, Sunbury County, Oct. 18, 1846, son of Samuel and
Mary Ann (Cogswell) Mills. The parents were also natives of Canada, of English
descent, the father, a farmer, dying there in 1872, at the age of 70 years;
his wife died in 1849, at the age of 40. Their children were: Hiram, Ezra,
Wellington, Lucy Ann, Samuel and Harriett, all of whom are now deceased.
Samuel Mills came to the United States in the fall of 1868, and in the
following year located at Eau Claire, Wis. There, for a number of years, he
was in the employ of the Northwestern Lumber Company. During that time, in the
summer of 1870, the railway reached Eau Claire, which was an occasion for
rejoicing; and several years later he witnessed the railway celebration at
Chippewa Falls. Mr. Mills entered into the lumber business, being engaged in
running camps and similar work, in which he continued until 1896, when he
came to Clark County, and bought his present place of eighty acres, on which
there were a few improvements. A few years prior to this he had bought a farm
a few miles west of this one, which he cleared from wild land. At the present time Mr. Mills is remodeling his house, making it into a
nine-room dwelling. In 1908 he built a barn, which was destroyed by lightning
the next year, after which he rebuilt it with stone basement and cement
floors. This barn measures 36 by 72 feet. In 1914 Mr. Mills built a brick silo
of 100 tons capacity. He is raising graded Holstein cattle, milking fifteen
cows, his principal crops being hay and oats. Though several times solicited,
he has never accepted public office. Mr. Mills was first married in 1874 to Nettie
Alderman, a native of Wisconsin. She died in 1878, having been the mother of
two children, one of whom, George B., died in 1904, the other, Ehner, dying in
infancy. In 1897 Mr. Mills married for his second wife, Mrs. Maggie Flemming,
a native of Canada and widow of James Flemming. Of this marriage two
children were born: Byron Eugene, May 8, 1898, who is now in Texas, and
Clarence S., born Oct. 30, 1901, who resides at home. By her first marriage
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