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MILLS. 518 MILLS. ish-American War participated in the Santiago campaign as captain and assistant adjutant ;,'cn- eral of volunteers. In Au<;ust, 1S!)8, lie was made superintendent of tlu; United States ilili- tarj' Academy, West Point, with the rank and pay of colonel, and in October of the same year was promoted to the regimental rank of captain. MILLS, Charles Kars.n'ek (1845—). An American neurologist, born in Philadelphia and educated at the Central High School and 'the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania. He began to practice in 18G9; was professor of physics in Wagner Institute (1870- 73) and lecturer on electric therapy and neu- rology in the Philadelpliia School of Anatomy and Surgery. He lu^Id a like position in the University of Pennsylvania (1877-87) and then became professor of the same subjects. He at- tained a high reputation as an alienist both in practice and in legal cases. He wrote several monographs on mental and nervous strain, and edited a valuable Treatise on the yervous i^ystem and Its Diseases. MILLS, Clarke (181,5-83). An American sculptor, bom in Onondaga County, N. Y., December 1, 181.5. In his youth he followed the trade of a plasterer, at the same time modeling ideal heads in clay. In 184(i he com- pleted a bust of .John C. Calhoun, which was purchased by the city of Charleston for the City Hall. In 1848 he furnished a design for an eipiestrian statue of General .Jackson, to be placed in Lafayette Square. Washington. There being no bronze foundry for such work in the United States. Jlills erected in Washington an experimental foundry, where in 1852 he sucee«>ded in prcKlucing a perfect cast. It was formally accepted .January 8. 1853 — the anniversarv- of the battle of Xew Orleans. He was next engaged on the colossal eqiiestrian statue of Washington, which was formally unveiled February 22. 18(50. Mills's last work was the casting of the colossal statue of Liberty (1863), modeled by Crawford, which crowns the dome of the Capitol at Wash- ington. In the light of contemporary' sculptors, the works of Mills seem inferior, but they mark a stepping-stone in the advance of -American art. He died at Washington, D. C .January 12. 1883. MILLS, Datd (1831—). A Canadian states- man. Iioni in Orford. Kent County. Ontario, lie graduated in law from the University of Michi- gan in 1855. After teaching for a time, he was school superintendent for Kent County tintil 18G5. and Liberal member for Bothwell. Ont.. in the Dominion Parliament from 1807 until 1806, when he was raised to the Senate. He was Jlin- ister of the Interior (187(!-78) and Minister of .Justice (18n7-inoi). He i)raeticed law in Lon- don. Ont.. edited the fumulu Dnilii Adirrtisrr in that city (1882-87). and liesiiles magazine articles published The Eitfilish in Africii (1000). From 1SS7 to 1000 he was professor of interna- tional and constitutional law in Toronto TTni- versity. and he was made a judge of the Supreme Couil'in loni. MILLS. Lawrence HETWOBTn (1837—). An English Orientalist. He was born in Xew York City and graduated at the University of the City of Xew York in 1857. He then studied for orders at the Fairfax County Episcopal Seminary near .Alexandria. Va., and was ordained in 1801. after which he held a charge in Brooklyn until 1867. Retiring from the ministry, he went to Europe in 1872, where he devoted himself first to a study of Gnosticism and then to the .A vesta, which was to prove his life-work. In 1887 he went to Oxford at the request of Max Miiller, and in 1898 he was made professor of Zend philologj' there for five years, an appointment which was renewed in 1903. The researches of Mills have been devoted chietly to the older portion of the Avesta texts, the Gathas ( q.v. ) , ihich he studied exhaustively, adhering in the main to the system of the traditional school of interpretation. He also publislied many con- tributions on the early phases of Zoroastrianism (see the article Avesta), and nuist Ixi reganled as one of the foremost of Iranian schohirs. Among his works the most important are: "Zend Avesta, part iii.," in Jliiller, .Vocrcd Books of the East, vol. x.xxi. (Oxford, 1887); Htudy of the Five Zarulhushtrian { Zoroast riati) Guthdsi 1894) ; Gdlhus of Zarathushira (Zoroaster) iti Metre and Ithiilhiii (WOO); Dietiunarij of the (Jtilhic Langtuuje of the Zcnd-Aiesta (1902); and Zo- roaster, I'hilo, and Israel (1003). MILLS, RonERT (1781-18.55). An American engineer and architect. He was born in Charles- ton. S. C. and studied tuider Benjamin H. Latrohe. He erected several custom-houses and marine hospitjils. and in 1820 was appointed State architect and engineer of South Carolina. In 1837 President Jackson made him the archi- tect of the General Government. L'nder this and the next Administration, Mills designed and had charge of the erection of the Treasury Buihling, the General PostOlTice. the Patent 0"nice Build- ing, and the Xational Washington Monument. MILLS, Roger Or ABLES (18.32—). An Amer- ican soldier and politician, born in Todd Comity, Ky. He removed to Palestine, Tex., in 1S40, studied law. and was admittid to the bar when only twenty years of age. He was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1850. but en- tered the military service of the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War. and took part in the battles of Arkansas Post (.January 11, 1803), Chickamauga (September 19-20. 1863), where he conunanded a brigade. Xew Hope Church (May 27. 1S64). and Atlanta (July 22, 1864). In 1873 he was elected to Congress, where he continued as a member of the House until 1802, when he was chosen to lill an unexpired term in the Senate, and the next >ear was reelected for the full term. In 1884-88 he was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, in which capacity he drafted the 'Mills Bill' for the regulation of the tariff. This measure was de- feated in the Senate. MILLS, Samiel .John (1783-1818). An American missionary. He was born at Torring- ford. Conn.. .April 21. 1783. and graduated at Williams College in 1800. While in college he formed an association among students who were considering the question of entering upon for- eign missionary work. After spending a short time in the study of theologA- at Xew Haven, he entered .Andover Theological Seminary in 1810. With .ludson. Hall. Xewell. and Xott he united in a memorial to the (Jeneral Association of Massachusetts (Congregational), which re- sulted in the formation of the .merican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was licensed to preach in 1812, and spent two