Leroy Bradley Mills

Brief Life History of Leroy Bradley

When Leroy Bradley Mills was born about 11 December 1868, in Weston, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Walter Sherwood Mills, was 53 and his mother, Eunice Squire, was 44. He married Marie Rhoda Baldwin about 1894, in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870 and Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1900. He died on 13 September 1908, in Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Easton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.

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Leroy Bradley Mills
1868–1908
Marie Rhoda Baldwin
1875–
Marriage: about 1894
Chester LeRoy Mills
1898–1968

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  • Leroy B Mills, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Leroy B. Mills, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
  • LeRoy Mills in entry for Chester Le Roy Mills and Mildred E Reynolds, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"

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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1876 · Pope Manufacturing Co. Begins Automobile Manufacturing

Pope Manufacturing Company produced bicycles, motorcycles, and automobiles. The main office is located in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1915, the company ceased producing motorcycles.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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