Harvey Edwin Mills

Brief Life History of Harvey Edwin

When Harvey Edwin Mills was born on 26 July 1903, in Pratt, Kansas, United States, his father, Harvey Lincoln Mills, was 42 and his mother, Laura Belle Purdy, was 35. He had at least 1 son with Rowene Violet Ahrens. He lived in Seward, Kansas, United States in 1935 and North Delta, Delta, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 20 September 1940, in Hugoton, Stevens, Kansas, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Hugoton, Stevens, Kansas, United States.

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Harvey Edwin Mills
1903–1940
Rowene Violet Ahrens
1916–2006
Larry Roger Mills
1935–2023

Sources (7)

  • Harvey Edward Mills, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Harvey J. R. Mills, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Harvey Mills in household of H L Mills, "Kansas State Census, 1915"

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World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1914 · The Ludlow Massacre

On April 20, 1914, the Colorado national Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards, attacked striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 25 people, including miners, women, and children.

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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