Obituary Notes. 9 



They are a mine of information, and the descendants of the persons 

 who figured in these old law-suits, now scattered all over the United 

 States, from time to time apply for copies, with the result that 

 what was regarded at the time of their publication as a liberal 

 edition is not far from exhausted. 



Theodore A. Mills. 

 Born April 24, 1839, Died December 11, 1916. 



Theodore A. Mills was the son of Clark Mills, the eminent 

 sculptor, and Eliza S. Mills his wife. He was born on April 24, 

 1839, at Charleston, South Carolina, the native place of his mother. 

 His father was born in Hamilton County, New York. Eliza S. 

 Mills, his mother, died in 1854 at Lancaster, Pa., and was buried 

 there. Clark Mills, his father, died in Washington, D. C, in 1873. 

 Besides Theodore A. Mills, who was the eldest, three other sons 

 were born to Clark Mills, John, Clark, and Fish, only one of whom 

 (John) survives at the present time and resides in Washington, 

 D. C. 



At the age of fourteen Mr. Mills entered the Brookville Academy 

 in the City of Washington. Here he completed a course with 

 credit, and subsequently, after having spent some time in his 

 father's atelier, in i860 entered the Royal Academy of Art in 

 Munich. He distinguished himself as a student at the Academy, 

 and was the first American to take the highest honors in the 

 Biennial Competition proposed to students in that institution. 

 Having won the first prize, it became necessary for him under the 

 rules to remain for six months longer than the regular time, in 

 order to make a life-size figure for presentation to the Academy. 

 He returned to America in 1865, and almost his first task was to 

 assist his father, Clark Mills the elder, in taking a life-mask of 

 Abraham Lincoln. This was just sixty days before the assassina- 

 tion of the great President. The original cast made from the 

 life-mask was presented by Mr. Mills to the Carnegie ^luseum, 



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