Lewis Mills

Background

Mills, son of Lewis and Sarah A. Mills, was born in Morristown, New Jersey (U.S.), August 13, 1836.

Education

He graduated from Yale College in 1856. He studied law at first in Morristown, and later completed his studies in Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in November 1858.

Career

He joined the Union Army late in the Civil War, as a volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of General R. B. Potter, and served in the Army of the Southwest during that year"s campaign, which included the siege of Vicksburg. He published a revision of Handy"s Reports of the Superior Court of Cincinnati (in 1877), and printed privately (in 1867) a volume of Glimpses of Southern France and Spain.

He went to Europe (for the fourth time) in the summer of 1877 After traveling in Normandy and passing the winter in Brussels, he reached Florence, Italy, in an invalid condition.

There while wasting away from a disease of the kidneys, he died from a sudden attack of heart-disease on April 10, 1878, at age 42. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

Connections

Partner:

A. T. Goshorn