Lincoln-Uinta County WY Archives Biographies.....Mills, Stephen A. 1859 - 
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Author: A. W. Bowen (Publisher)

STEPHEN A. MILLS.

   A somewhat unusual circumstance in the nativity of an American citizen
occurred at the birth of Stephen A. Mills, the well-known merchant of
Diamondville, Wyoming, who, although of American parentage, was born in the city
of Paris, France, on December 17, 1859, a son of Stephen T. and Mary (Garnier)
Mills, the latter being a member of one of the most prominent families of that
gay capital. Wickham Mills, the paternal grandfather of Stephen A. Mills, was a
conspicuous citizen of New York and in an early day he was identified with the
steamboat navigation of the Hudson River in conjunction with Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the founder of the great Vanderbilt railroad system. Wickham Mills,
a native of New York, was a descendant of the renowned Hudson family of Colonial
days, which descended from Hendrick Hudson, the famous discoverer of the Hudson
River. Many members of this family were conspicuous patriots of the war for
American independence. The Wickham Mills above alluded to was accidently killed
on a steamboat of which Commodore Vanderbilt was the pilot, his remains being
interred on Staten Island. Stephen T. Mills, the father of Stephen A. Mills, was
a native of Staten Island, N. Y., and as an inventor was associated with the
renowned Goodyear in his successful experiments in connection with rubber and
being also quite noted as a public man, especially as an U. S. consul in France,
where he was living when his son, Stephen A. Mills, was born. In 1861 he
returned to the United States, and from that time was in rapidly failing health
until his death in 1864 at the age of thirty-six years, his remains also being
interred on Staten Island. Mrs. Mary A. (Garnier) Mills survives her husband,
resides in New York and enjoys an enviable reputation, being dearly beloved by
her children and by all her acquaintances. She is the mother of three surviving
and two deceased children, all of whom were reared in the faith of the Episcopal
church. Stephen A. Mills, the eldest of these children, was educated in the
public schools of New York, began business life as a machinist and at the age of
nineteen years he had traveled nearly all over the United States and Canada,
later passing two years in Omaha, Neb., and coming to Wyoming in 1898.
Previously, however he had lived in Bear Lake county, Idaho, where he held
several public offices and enjoyed the confidence of his constituents, whom he
served as an assessor and collector, etc., for four years, having been a
business man and merchant since 1878, in 1880 becoming a farmer and entering 320
acres of land close to Cokeville, Wyo., which he still owns. Mr. Mills is a
Democrat in politics and in 1890 was nominated by his party as its candidate for
state senator but was defeated by a trifling majority. In Masonic circles he is
known as a Knight Templar, a Scottish Rite Mason and a noble of the Mystic
Shrine. He also holds fraternal relations with the Knights of Pythias at
Montpelier, Idaho. Mr. Mills has been engaged in conducting a general store in
Diamondville for years and has won an enviable reputation as an upright and
honorable merchant. His happy marriage was celebrated in Evanston, Wyo., on
December 15, 1878, when Miss Annie Bisbing became his wife. She is a daughter of
Emanuel S. and Mary E. (Wackerly) Bisbing, natives of Philadelphia, Pa., and of
Colonial stock who came to Evanston when the Wyoming territory was first
settled. They have one child, Stephen Claude, who is studying electricity at a
college in California.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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