Brief Life History of James Thomas
When James Thomas Mills was born on 29 January 1863, in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Richard Isaac Mills, was 26 and his mother, Charlotte Giles, was 23. He married Sarah Buck on 29 March 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Bancroft, Bannock, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 27 April 1944, in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in West Weber, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- James T Mills, "United States Census, 1910"
- James T Mills, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
- James Thomas Mills, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1885
Historic Boundaries 1885: Bingham, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Bingham, Idaho, United States 1893: Bannock, Idaho, United States 1948: Caribou, Idaho, United States Squaw Creek changed to Bancroft in 1892
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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