Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Mills, Richard 1824 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

RICHARD MILLS.—A native of Lancashire, England, and born in 1824. He resided in
his native county until twenty-eight years of age. He then emigrated to America,
and engaged in mining in the coal-fields of Pennsylvania, remaining there until
1853. He next came to California and followed gold mining until ten years later,
when he came to Contra Costa county, locating at the coal mines of Somersville
in the Spring of 1863, where he has since resided, engaged in mining until
recently, when he started his present business. Mr. Mills has been twice
married, and has three living children and four step-children. The names of his
own are: Richard, James (deceased), Sarah A., and John; his step-children are:
Oweny, Patrick, Ellen and Kate McVery.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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