Robert Mills

Male19 May 1877–1910

Brief Life History of Robert

When Robert Mills was born on 19 May 1877, in Wayne, Wayne, West Virginia, United States, his father, James Martin Mills, was 24 and his mother, Cynthia J. Napier, was 26. He lived in Stonewall District, Wayne, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1910, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

James Martin Mills
1852–1932
Cynthia J. Napier
1851–1922
Mary Virginia Mills
1872–1899
Oliver E. Mills
1875–
Robert Mills
1877–1910
Charles Enslow "Charley" Mills
1880–1962
Archimades Mills
1883–1948
Jamison H Mills
1885–1886
Sarah J Mills
1887–
Bertie Mills
1891–1976
Lucian Monroe Mills
1893–1953

Sources (5)

  • Robert Mills in household of James M Mills, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Robert Mills, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
  • Robert Mills in household of James M Mills, "United States Census, 1880"

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World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Age 4

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.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

Age 5

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

Age 13

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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