MILLS
MILLSPAUGH
resulted in the formation of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was
licensed to preach in lbi2, and with the Rev.
F. Schermerhorn of the Reformed Dutch church,
made a missionary tour through southwestern
United States under the patronage of the Con-
necticut and Massacliusetts Missionary societies.
He made a second tour in 1814-15, accompanied
by the Rev. David Smith, and while in New
Orleans, La., finding it impossible to purchase a
Bible, he procured a supply in both French and
English and distributed them. He was ordained
at Newburyport, June 31, 1815 ; resided success-
ively in Albany, N.Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and in
Washington, D.C., 1815-17, and was influential
in establishing the American Bible society in
May, 1816, and afterward the United Foreign
Missionary society. He devoted himself to the
elevation of the colored race in the United States
and Africa. It was chiefly through his efforts
that the synod of New York and New Jersey
established a school for the training of young
colored men as preachers and teachers of the
African race in 1816. He served as the agent of
this institution in the middle states, and in Jan-
uary, 1817, on the organization of the American
Colonization society was chosen to explore the
western coast of Africa and select the most
eligible place for a settlement. The Rev. Ebene-
zer Burgess accompanied him on this mission,
and they sailed for London, England, in Novem-
ber. 1817, and for Africa in February, 1818, reach-
ing their destination in March, 1818. After ful-
filling the duties of his mission Mr. Mills took
passage from Sierra Leone for London in the
brig Success, May 22. 1818. He published an ac-
count of his missionary tours in the southern
and western parts of the United States in 1815.
See Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills by Gard-
ner Spring (1854). He died at sea on the voyage
from Sierra Leone to London, June 16, 1818.
MILLS, Susan Tolman, educator, was born in Enosburgh. Vt., Nov. 18, 1825 ; daughter of John and Elizal^eth (Nichols) Tolman ; granddaughter of Desire and Sarah (Howe) Tolman, and of Levi and Relief (Boutell) Nichols, and a descend- ant of Thomas Tolman, who landed at Nan- tasket, Mass., May 29, 1630, and was a member of the party that bought from the Indians the tract of land on which Dorchester and adjacent towns in Massachusetts were built. Her family removed from Vermont in 1836 to Ware, Mass., and she attended the public schools, the seminary at West Brookfield, Mass., was graduated from Mt. Holyoke seminary, Mass., in 1845. and was an instructor at Mt. Holyoke, 1845-48. She was mar- ried, Sept. 11, 1848, to the Rev. Cyrus Taggart Mills, and accompanied her husband to India, where she assisted him in his educational work.
She was a teacher at Batticotta college, Jaffna,
Ceylon, 1848-55 ; at Oahu college, Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands, 1860-64 ; returned to America,
and removed with her husband to California in
1865. She was associated with Dr. Mills as a
teacher at the Young Ladies' seminary, Benicia,
Cal., 1865-71. They removed the seminary from
Benicia to Seminary Park, Alameda county, Cal.,
in 1871, and she continued as Dr. Mills's assistant
until his death in 1884, when she succeeded him
as president and treasurer, also serving as teacher
of Bible and tlieism. She donated the Mr. and
Mrs. John Tolman scholarship of $5,000 in mem-
ory of her father and mother, and the Mr. and
Mrs. Lucian A. Tolman scholarship of $5,000 in
memory of lier brother and sister.
MILLSON, John S., representative, was born in Norfolk, Va.. Oct. 1, 1808. He attended an academy, began the study of law in 1824, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. He settled in prac- tice in Norfolk, was a presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844, and on the Cass and Butler ticket in 1848, and was a representa- tive from the first Virginia district in the 31st- 36th congresses, 1849-61. He took no part in the civil war. He died at Norfolk. Va.. Feb. 26, 1873.
MILLSPAUGH, Frank Rosebrook, third bishop of Kansas and 176th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Nichols, Tioga county, N.Y., April 13, 1848 ; son of Cornelius and Elmira (Rosebrook) Millspaugh, and of Dutch descent, his great- grandfather, Peter von Miltzbach, set- tling in Orange coun- ty, N.Y., with his wife, Elsie Kimbark, a French Huguenot refugee who boast- ed of royal blood. The next generation changed the name. His father removed to Faribault, Minn., in 1857, and there
Frank attended the ^ — TT^ ^ * >» y
parish school kept by ^^aa:^^/5%^^^^/^^< the Rev. James Lloyd
Breck (q.v.). He was graduated from Shattuck Hall in 1870, and from Seabury Divinity school, B.D., 1873 ; was ordered deacon, June 22, 1873, ordained priest, June 21, 1874, and was a mission- ary in Minnesota, 1873-76. He was dean of Trinity cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1876-86; con- tinually represented the diocese as president of the standing committee and delegate to the gen- eral convention ; was rector of St. Paul's church, Minneapolis, 1886-94, and dean of Grace cathe- dral, Topeka, Kan., 1894-95. He was elected
