Herbert Lee Mills

1868 - Unknown

• Name	Herbert Lee Mills
  Born	26 Feb 1868	Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT
  Christened	Oct 1868	Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT
  Gender	Male
  Died	Unknown
  Notes	HERBERT LEE MILLS, son of Lieutenant-Governor Lyman Allen Mills and Jane Louisa Andrews, his wife, born at Middlefield, Conn., February 26, 1866, was baptized October, 1868, by Reverend Spafford D. Jewett, former pastor of the Congregational Church at that place. He was prepared for college at the Wilson Grammar School and Dr. Holbrook's Military College, at Briar Cliff, below Peekskill, N. Y. In 1887 he entered Yale College, where he remained one year, taking the academic course, being ranked throughout his stay in the first of the five divisions into which the students were organized. He has always been interested in athletics, and while in the preparatory school was a member of a base-ball nine and captain of a foot-ball team.  On leaving Yale in 1889, he became a clerk for the Orr & Lockett Hardware Company, the largest retailers in that line in Chicago, and later removed to New Britain, Conn., where he is established on North Main St. and has one of the largest stocks of hardware in the city. Mr. Mills is a progressive business man, and in politics is a Republican, but has never been actively interested in party management. He married at Chicago, Ill., Aug. 31, 1892, BESSIE DELANO KENDALL, born at New York, Jan. 2, 1873, daughter of Joseph Kendall, born at Sterling, Mass., and Catherine Wellsman, his wife.
  Person ID	I12947	Stedman/Steadman/Steedman Families of the New World
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2006

  
  

  Father	Lt. Gov. Lyman Allen Mills,   b. 25 Feb 1841, Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT ,   d. Aft 1905  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Jane Louisa "Jennie" Andrews,   b. 10 Aug 1847, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT ,   d. Aft 1905  (Age 58 years)
  Married	7 Jan 1866
  Family ID	F5419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bessie Delano Kendall,   b. 2 Jan 1873, New York, New York Co., NY ,   d. Unknown
  Married	31 Aug 1892	Chicago, Cook Co., IL
  Children	1. Katherine Lyman Mills,   b. 28 Oct 1896, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT ,   d. Unknown   2. Kendall Andrews Mills,   b. 14 Jan 1903, New Britain, Hartford Co., CT ,   d. Nov 1968  (Age 65 years)
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2006
  Family ID	F5446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 26 Feb 1868 - Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT Christened - Oct 1868 - Middlefield, Middlesex Co., CT Married - 31 Aug 1892 - Chicago, Cook Co., IL  = Link to Google Earth