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associates. He could be relied upon to do whatever was entrusted 

 to him with skill and in the most artistic manner. He was gentle, 

 kind, abounding in good humor, and endeared himself to those 

 about him by his affectionate and warm-hearted disposition. 

 Though he had passed the scriptural limits of life when he came 

 to the end, his eyes and fingers had lost none of their cunning, 

 and he was busily at work to the last. His final illness was of 

 very brief duration. He was seized with pneumonia and passed 

 away almost before those about him realized that he was ill. He 

 is interred in the Allegheny Cemetery. 



Mr. Mills was married in 1875 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Frederick 

 of Georgetown, who died on July 16, 1899, in Pittsburgh. The 

 issue of this marriage was three daughters, Margaret, Clara, and 

 Lillian, of whom only Lillian (Mrs. Frank J. Reed, of Cleveland, 

 Ohio) survives. He also leaves four grandchildren: Theodore 

 and Edward Armiger, of Washington, D. C, sons of his daughter 

 Margaret, Theodore H. Wills, of Pittsburgh, the only son of his 

 daughter Clara, and Frank J. Reed, Jr., of Cleveland, the son of 

 Lillian. 



The death of Mr. Mills removes from the staff of the Museum 

 a friend and fellow-worker, whose place it will be exceedingly hard 

 to fill. 



Edward Manning Bigelow. 

 Born November 6, 1850, Died December 6, 1916. 



The death of Mr. E. M. Bigelow has robbed the city of Pitts- 

 burgh of one of its most prominent and useful citizens. His 

 achievements during the many years in which he successfully 

 filled the office of Director of Public Works are destined to per- 

 petuate his memory in this city which he loved, and the great 

 work which he accomplished as Commissioner of Highways for 

 the State during recent years will leave its mark forever upon the 

 face of the Commonwealth. He was aptly styled "the Father of 

 the Parks." To him, perhaps more than to any other individual 



