Background
Mills, Abbot Low was born on January 13, 1858 in Brooklyn. Son of Ethelbert Smith and Ellen Porter (Low) Mills.
Mills, Abbot Low was born on January 13, 1858 in Brooklyn. Son of Ethelbert Smith and Ellen Porter (Low) Mills.
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1868-1873. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1881.
With Goodrich & Benson, tea brokers, New York, 1873-1874. With J. C. Phillips & Company, tea importers, New York, 1874-1876. Senior member Mills & Samuels, tea merchants, Richmond, Virginia, January-November 1876.
With West. A. & A. M. White, New York, 1881-1882.
Member Mills & Howe, stock raisers, Oregon, 1882-1885. Member Perkins & Mills, bankers, Colfax, Washington, 1885-1890.
Vice president Security Savings & Trust Company, Portland, 1890-1903. President First National Bank, Portland, April 9, since 1903.
Also president Oregon Life Insurance Сompany.
Vice president Security Savings & Trust Company President Portland Open Air Sanatorium for Consumptives. Director National Association Study and Prevention Tuberculosis (president Oregon Branch). Chairman Board Public Works, Portland, 1901-1903.
Member Oregon House of Representatives, 1904-1905 (speaker, 1905).
Member Mills & Samuels, tea merchants Member Mills & Howe, stock raisers, Oregon Member Perkins & Mills, bankers, Colfax, Washington
Member Oregon
Married Evelyn Scott Lewis, June 29, 1891.