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The Susan Lincoln Mills Memory Book
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
Clara K. Wittenmyer
Press of Hancock Bros., 1915
Poetry; American; General; Birthday books; Literature; Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills was an American missionary and educator.
Background
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills was the third in a family of six children, five of whom were girls. On her father's side, she was descended from Thomas Tolman, a native of England, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. In 1835, her parents, John and Elizabeth (Nichols) Tolman, moved from Enosburg, Vermont, her birthplace, to Ware, Massachusetts.
Education
Mills received her early education in Massachusetts. She entered Mount Holyoke Seminary, now Mount Holyoke College in 1842, and graduated in 1845.
Career
Mills taught at Mount Holyoke Seminary under the direction of Mary Lyon. During the years from 1848 to 1884, she assisted her husband in missionary and educational work. Their first engagement was at Batticotta Seminary in Ceylon, India, an institution devoted to the education of native teachers and preachers. Besides helping in administering the affairs of the seminary, she also supervised the work of several day schools. After six years, which sorely taxed their health, they returned to the United States. With improvement in health came the old urge for foreign service, and in 1860 they went to the Hawaiian Islands. Cyrus Mills became president of Oahu College in Honolulu, and his wife taught English and natural sciences. During the four years of their sojourn, she established an enviable reputation among the young people of the school and of the community by her wholesome advice and her cheerful disposition. Returning to the United States in 1864 they settled in California the following year, and purchased a young ladies' seminary from Mary Atkins at Benicia. The acquisition of this school opened the field to which Mrs. Mills dedicated the remainder of her active life the "Christian education" of young women. Benicia was not the most desirable place for such a school, however, and they acquired about sixty acres of land five miles south of Oakland and just east of the south end of San Francisco Bay, erected a comfortable building which would accommodate about one hundred and twenty-five students, and moved to the new site in 1871. Mills Seminary for this was the name given to the school at that time was favorably regarded from the very beginning. In 1877, the property was deeded to a board of trustees. When Cyrus Mills died in 1884, his wife was appointed to the board in his place and was practically in charge of the institution until Homer B. Sprague assumed the duties of president in the autumn of 1885. In the meantime a four years' college course was added to the curriculum, a college charter was secured from the state of California, and Mills Seminary became Mills College. In 1890, Mrs. Mills became president, and during the nineteen years she held the office, she proved an efficient executive. In 1901, she transferred property to the trustees valued at about $200, 000, which was to be administered by the board for the benefit of the college. Beginning in 1906, the seminary classes were eliminated, one each year, and the institution was devoted entirely to the higher education of young women. Mrs. Mills retired from the presidency in 1909. She died at Oakland, California.