Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Mills, George A. April 20, 1845 - 
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Author: 1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

GEORGE A. MILLS, farmer, section 20, Sherman Township, is a son of Stillman 
and Joanna (Harrington) Mills, 

the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New York; and was born in New 
York, April 20, 1845.  At 

the age of 12 years he went to live with a brother, whre he remained until he 
was 17, and 
Sept. 15, 1862, he enlisted in the 149th N.Y. Reg., and served till June 12, 
1865, receiving an honorable 

discharge at Bladensburgh, Md.  Owing to serious sickness he was confined to 
the hospital for some time, 

and was then detailed on detached service at Philadelphis.  He afterwards 
rejoined his regiment in 

Tennessee and remained until his discharge.  He returned to New York, and was 
employed in a paper mill 

nearly four years.  In the fall of 1869 he came to Hillsdale County, this 
State, and worked for his 

brother-in-law one year, and afterward rented a farm three years.  In the 
spring of 1864 he came to 

Newaygo County and purchased 80 acres of partly improved land in Sherman 
Township, where he now resides, 

and has about 45 acres under the plow.

Mr. Mills was married in Auburn, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1867, to Esther A., daughter 
of George C. and Esther 

(Wilkins) Haward, the fomer a native of New Hampshire and the latter of 
Massachusetts, and she was born in 

 Mendon, Monroe Co., N.Y., Dec. 17, 1845.  Mr. and Mrs. Mills are the parents 
of one child, BUrton H., orn 

Oct. 15, 1873.  In politics Mr. M. is a Republican.

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