COLLEGE FOUNDER DEAD. 



Mrs. Susan Lincoln Mills Succumbs 

 at Age of Eighty-Seveuy^^^ 



OAKLAND, Cal., December 13.— Susan 

 Lincoln Mills, founder of Mills College, 

 the first college for women on the Pacifies 

 coast, died here last night at her home, 

 on College campus. Less than a month 

 ago she celebrated her eighty-seventh 

 birthday anniversary. 



Mrs. Mills was born in Massachusetts 

 in 1825. She was graduated from Mount 

 HHolyoke Seminary in 1845, where she 

 taught until 1849. With her husband, the 

 Rev. Cyrus T. Mills, she went to Benicia. 

 CaL, in 1855 and purchased a young la-, 

 dies' seminary. In 1871 the present site 

 was obtained. 



