Background
Mills, William Hayne was born on September 12, 1872 in Winnsboro, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Wilson and Sarah Edith (Smith) Mills.
Mills, William Hayne was born on September 12, 1872 in Winnsboro, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Wilson and Sarah Edith (Smith) Mills.
Bachelor of Arts, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1892. Bachelor of Divinity, Columbia (South Carolina.) Theological Seminary, 1897.
Ordained ministry Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1898. Pastor Clarendon and Williamsburg counties South Carolina., until 1902. Home missionary under Synod of South Carolina., 1903-1906.
Pastor Presbyterian Church, Clemson College, South Carolina., 1907-1918. Professor rural sociology, Clemson Agricultural College, since 1918, also specialist in rural organization and agricultural economics for same college In charge department rural economics and sociology, A.E.T., University of Beaune, France, 1919. Specialist and consultant in Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Trustee Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School, St. Helena Island, South Carolina.
Author of Reports on the Country Church, to Presbyterian (South) General Assembly, 1924, 25. Wrote: (bulletin) South Carolina Agriculture and Industry, 1925. The Taxation System of South Carolina, 1926.Joint editor of History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina Since 1850, 1927. South Carolina: The Comfortable State, 1926-1927. Twelve Great South Carolina Farmers.The One-Crop System in the Cotton Belt. History of the Agriculture of South Carolina, 1669-1940.
Member Kappa Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Emma Louise Pressley, April. Children: Edith Louise, William, Mary Leighton, Annie Pressley (deceased), Eleanor Geddes (deceased).