Stewart Mills

Brief Life History of Stewart

When Stewart Mills was born on 30 August 1873, in Mills Mills, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States, his father, Stanley Mills, was 30 and his mother, Lucina A. Fuller, was 24. He married Rowena Holland on 14 February 1893, in Fillmore, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States. He lived in Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1900 and Salamanca, Cattaraugus, New York, United States in 1920. He died on 5 November 1926, in Salamanca, Allegany Indian Reservation, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Alger Cemetery, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States.

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Stewart Mills
1873–1926
Rowena Holland
1873–1923
Marriage: 14 February 1893

Sources (8)

  • Stewart Mills, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Stewart Mills, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
  • Stewart Mills, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"

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World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1875 · A New Civil Rights Act

During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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Stewart Mills, 53 years old, music director at the Andrews theater here (Salamanca), died at the city hospital Friday after an illness of 10 weeks. He was born at Mills Mills, Allegheny county, August …

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