Taylor Mills

Brief Life History of Taylor

When Taylor Mills was born about 1820, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Mills, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Raley, was 29.

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Joseph Mills
1791–1847
Sarah Raley
1792–1864
Eli Raley Mills
1814–1855
Elizabeth Mills
1816–
Taylor Mills
about 1820–
Edmund Mills
1824–
Martha Mills
1830–
Henry Mills
1816–1878
Mary Ann Mills
1819–1890
Joshua Lupton Mills
1821–1882
Pusey Mills
1824–1882
Abel Mills
1829–1919
Sarah Mills
1832–1848

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    World Events (3)

    1819 · Panic! of 1819

    With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

    about 1820 · Making States Equal

    The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

    1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

    The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .

    English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

    Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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