Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Mills, D. B. 1846 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

D. B. MILLS, blacksmith, Palestine, was born August 4, 1835, in Muskingum
County, Ohio.  His father was James Mills, a farmer by occupation; he died in
Ohio. He was joined in matrimony to Eliza Wright, born 1807, in Zanesviile,
Ohio. She died 1875, in Wells County, Ind., and was the mother of nine children.
 Mr. Mills went to school in Allen County, Ind.; he served his apprenticeship in
Fort Wayne, Ind.; after that he rambled for some two years. April 26, 1858, he
came to Palestine, and has called that place home ever since, following his
trade. One season he ran a woolen factory. He enlisted, August 12, 1862, in the
Ninety-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Company E; his regiment was mounted
during the second year of service. He was mustered out June 27, 1865, at
Nashville, Tenn. After the war, he came back to Palestine, where he has followed
his trade, and was married November 8, 1864, while home on a furlough, to Miss
C. P. Griffith, a distant relative of ex-President Franklin Pierce. She was born
April 30, 1841, and died October 31, 1868; she was the mother of one child,
living, named Pierce, born October 21, 1868. Mr. Mills was married a second
time, December 5, 1872, in Adams County, Ohio, to Miss T. E. McColm, born
February 18, 1842; she died December 14, 1878. She is a daughter of John and
Hannah (Beech) McColm; her grandparents came  from Ireland in 1795; they were
robbed on the high sea by pirates, supposed to have been French privateers, and
were landed in the United States in a very destitute condition, even hatless and
coatless. Mrs. McColm is the mother of one boy, named Orville, born January 7,
1875. Mr. Mills has traveled extensively in the United States, having been in
twenty-four States.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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