DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: MILLS, JAMES & PUTNAM, DAVID (published 1900)
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A Biographical History of Darke County Ohio, published in
Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1900. p.545


      JAMES MILLS (within the bio of Colonel David Putman)

     On the 15th of November, 1842, he [Col. Putman] was united
in marriage to Miss Sarah Mills, who was born two miles from New
Madison, on the 17th of January, 1822, and was a daughter of
Colonel Mark T. Mills and a grand-daughter of General James
Mills, who belongs to a prominent family of the county that was
established in Ohio at an early epoch in its history, coming here
in 1816 and settling on land two miles north of New Madison.  He
was a native of New Jersey, and emigrated to Hamilton, Butler
county, Ohio, in 1800.  He was one of the first settlers in the
county and was colonel of the First Ohio Militia, Third
Detachment, in the war of 1812.  He left Hamilton, Ohio, February
5, 1813, in command of the First Ohio Militia, and marched to
Dayton; from there to Piqua, Loramie, St. Mary's, and finally, on
the 7th of April, was ordered to Fort Meigs, where his regiment
remained on guard duty till discharged from service.  We find the
following entry in his regimental book:

     Colonel Mills with a portion of his command, having
     honorably served out the period for which they were
     called into the service of their county, are hereby
     discharged and permitted to return to their respective
     homes.  Events not within the control of the present
     commander-in-chief of this army or of our government
     have rendered it necessary that the militia of the
     western states should compose a considerable portion
     of the northwest army.  Ohio stands conspicuous for
     the great zeal and promptness with which her citizens
     have yielded the comforts of private life for the toils
     and privations of the camp.  In the return of this
     detachment of Ohio troops to their families and homes,
     it is due to Ohio and her sons to record their honorable
     service.  To Colonel Mills and his staff, and his
     respective commissioned and non-commissioned officers
     and privates, whose term of service has expired, and to
     whose promptness in the discharge of every duty he has
     been an eye witness, the commanding general gives his
     sincere thanks.
              "By command of Gen. Greene Clay."

     Colonel J. Mills served in both branches of the Ohio
legislature.  He died of cholera in 1833, at Fort Jefferson, and
is buried on the land he first settled.  His wife was a physician
of much note in the early history of this county.  Colonel Mark
T. Mills, son of the former, was one of the early sheriffs of
this county, and while serving his second term was elected a
member of the legislature.  He was continued a member of that
body for four or five years by the suffrage of the people.  He
was married to Miss Lydia Burdge March 29, 1821, and died in
March, 1843, his wife surviving him until March, 1886.