Fig. 2604. James Mills, M. A. LL. D. 



JAMES MILLS, M. A. LL. D. 



" God might have made a better man than an Irishman, but he never did."— -4non. 



DR. JAMES MILLS was born of 

 North of Ireland parents, in the 

 County of Simcoe, Ontario, in the 

 year 1840. There, until he reached twenty- 

 one years of age, he received a most thor- 

 ough training in all the practical details of 

 Canadian farm work, as the farm upon 

 which he was brought up, and upon which 

 he worked, was one of the best managed 

 and best cultivated in the province. So far 

 his life had been intensely practical. A 



serious accident formed the turning point 

 in his career. At twenty-one he lost his 

 ^ight arm in a threshing machine, and, thus 

 handicapped, he stood upon the threshold 

 of his life work with responsibility, and 

 what some might call disaster, staring him 

 in the face. He then entered the public 

 school and began his education at the time 

 when the majority of young men have al- 

 ready finished. Hitherto his training had 

 been manual or physical ; now he began to 



