- DAVID L. MILLS, attorney, Evansville; born in Renesselaer
Co., N.Y., March 7, 1816; he
- came to Wisconsin in 1845, one the old steamer Illinois,
commanded by Capt. Black, arriving in Dane Co., June 1; he taught
school for a few months; then removed to Fulton, Rock Co., in
1846, where he engaged in the practice of law, he having received
a law education at Rome, N.Y., which he completed at the college
at Stanford, Ky. Mr. MILLS was elected a member of the State
Constitutional Convention in 1846. In November, 1854, he removed
to Evansville, where he engaged as stock agent for the Beloit
& Madison Railroad Company (now Chicago & North-western).
In 1851, he was appointed to fill a vacancy as Director of the
Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad; was afterward twice elected
to the same position. In 1858, he was elected Register of Deeds;
his duties required his removal to Janesville, where he remained
until the summer of 1863. Mr. MILLS was the founder of the Evansville
Seminary, begun in 1856, he having granted deeds of property
to a chartered corporation under the supervision of the Methodist
Conference of Wisconsin. Mr. MILLS is at present engaged in
the practice of law and conveyances in Janesville. He married,
in the town of Vienna, Oneida Co., N.Y., May 2, 1852, Miss Lucia
S. PARKER, a native of the county in which she was married;
have two children, and lost three.
-
- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 862.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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