Genealogical And Personal History Of Fayette And Greene Counties Pennsylvania PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...Pennsylvania, April 29, I877. He was educated in the public schools of that city. and began business life as a clerk in a grocery store. In 1905 he established for himself at the corner of North Pittsburgh and Peach streets, where he has since conducted a successful grocery business. In politics he is a Democrat, and is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. He is unmarried. This branch of the Mills family MILLS was founded in the United States by Joseph Mills, born in Eng land, about the year 1830. He obtained an expert knowledge of coal mining in his native land, later coming to the United States and settling in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, Lackawanna county. He obtained employment in the mines, where his knowledge of mine gases and proper methods of tunneling enabled him to secure the highest wages. He died in I878. He married Jane iIcDugall. born in the North of Ireland in 1831, died 1883, of Scotch ancestry. She grew to womanhood in Ireland, emigrating to the United States with a colony of ScotchIrish Presbyterians, locating in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she was married. Their only child who survived infancy was Thomas, of whom further. (I1) Thomas, son of Joseph and Jane (McDugall) Mills, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, February 25, 1871. He was several years of age when his father died, and twelve years of age when his mother died, leaving li;ni without a relative in the United States. Thrown thus early upon his own resources, he was obliged to take such work as offered. He worked among the farmers of the country in different places until he was nineteen years of age, receiving at first very small wages and often nothing but his board. In I890 he secured a position with the Scranton Electric Light and...