Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a27.
 
EDWARD D.  MILLS

   father was born in Casey county, Ky., where he married Eliza Tinsley, and
then moved to Iowa.  There the family resided until the death of Mrs. Mills,
leaving seven children.  One of these was Edward D., who was born in Fairfield
county, Iowa, January 29, 1842.  The father moved back to Kentucky and was
married to Martha Edwards, who was a Christian woman and a good mother to the
seven little ones.  In 1854 the family moved to Clay county, Mo., near Kansas
City, and accumulated considerable property.  When the war broke out Mr. Mills
lost the bulk of his property and enlisted in the Union army.  He served three
years, during which his second wife died, having borne him four children.  He
now resides near Eureka Springs, Ark.  Edward D. left home April 27, 1899, and
crossed the plains to California.  He lived in Shasta county till the spring of
1865, and then went to Idaho in November of the same year, he came to Walla
Walla, and in the spring of 1868 took up a homestead in Spring valley, Walla
Walla county, where he still resides.  November 29, 1870, he married Mary M.
Dickinson and has now a family of five children.  Mr. Mills' farm, which forms
one of our illustrations, contains 240 acres of fine sub soil land, of the best
class in the county.  This year he has raised 2,000 bushels of wheat and 800 of
barley.  Mr. Mills is one of the successful farmers of the county, and has by
his own exertions, created for himself a comfortable and pleasant home, which is
shown on another page.  A fine spring of water is one of the many conveniences
he possesses.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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