Brief Life History of Edwin Griffith
When Edwin Griffith Mills was born on 18 January 1861, in Lansing Township, Mower, Minnesota, United States, his father, Hugh Daniel Mills, was 29 and his mother, Abby A Sargent, was 29. He married Lena, Mrs Mills about 1900, in Windom Township, Mower, Minnesota, United States. He lived in Windom Township, Mower, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years and Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 May 1934, at the age of 73, and was buried in Austin, Mower, Minnesota, United States.
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- Ed Mills, "United States Census, 1910"
- Edwin G Mills, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Edwin G Mills, "Minnesota Will Records, 1849-1985"
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1862 · The Dakota Conflict/War
The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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