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In the absence of the author, the following memoir was read b}" J. S. 

 Diller: 



MEMOIR OF JAMES E. MILLS* 

 BY J. C. BRANNER 



James Ellison Mills, son of Doctor Preserved Brayton and Jane Lunt 

 Mills, was born in Bangor, Maine, February 13, 1834, and died at San 

 Fernando, Estado de Durango, Mexico, July 25, 1901. The boj^hood of 

 Mr Mills was spent at home, in the public schools and in the woods 

 with crews of lumbermen working for his father. He prepared to enter 

 Harvard College at the age of seventeen, but his father desired that he 

 should first learn what he could of his country by traveling, and accord- 



*For the data of this notice I am indebted chieflj' to Mr Mills' surviving brother, Hiram Mills, 

 of Lowell, Massachusetts. 



