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Mr. Mills was born at Burleson, Johnson County, Texas, on January 24, 1878. He is a son of W. F. and Cora (HIX) Mills, and is one of their large family of ten children. W. F. Mills was born in Illinois in 1841 and died in Greer County, Oklahoma, in 1898. When he was yet a boy his parents moved from Illinois to Mississippi, and in 1851 they came to Texas, settling at Burleson, Johnson County, and there he continued to live for many years. He married there and his children were all born at Burleson, where he carried on a farming and stock-raising business. Mr. Mills served three years in the Confederacy as a member of a Texas regiment of volunteer infantry, and he was a life-long democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South County, Oklahoma, and there homesteaded 160 acres of Government land, which he later increased to 320 acres, and which his wife sold after his death. The land was situated sixteen miles south of Mangum. In 1869 Mr. Mills married Cora HIX. She was the maternal granddaughter of the LEE family. Her great grandfather was of English birth and ancestry. She was born in Kentucky in 1851 and is now living in Mangum. Their children are here briefly mentioned as follows: Rosa, the first born, died at the age of eighteen years. Mollie married J. B. ROBERSON and lives in Martin County, Texas, where Mr. Roberson is engaged in farming. Price lives in Springfield, Colorado, and is a stock raiser. Annie married J. B. HACKER and resides in Hollis, Oklahoma, where Mr. Hacker owns and operates the telephone exchange. The fifth child was M. H. of this review. William lives in Springfield, Colorado, and is a farmer. Alice married J. F. EDDLEMAN, and they have their home at Cleburne, Texas. Walter is a machinist and lives at Marshall, Texas. Mattie married H. E. GALBRAITH, and lives at Hollis, Oklahoma, where her husband is a manufacturer of soft drinks. Queen married Charles BROCK, a machinist of the oil mill at Mangum. M. H. Mills was raised on his father's farm and attended the schools of Greer County. He was twenty years old when he left home in 1898 for the first time. He went to Montana and worked on cattle ranches and in the mines for four years, and in 1902 returned to Greer County, Oklahoma, and spent a year in work on a farm there. He then entered the Tyler Commercial College in Tyler, Texas, and finished a thorough business course, after which he entered the office of Judge J. L. Carpenter in Mangum and began the study of law. He also read law in the office of G. A. BROWN, now a judge of the Supreme Bench, and in several other offices did he get some training. He spent something like five years in study and in 1909 was admitted to practice. For three years he conducted an independent practice, and then, in 1912, joined forces with Judge Carpenter, and they have since worked together under the firm name of Carpenter & Mills. They have their offices in the Mangum National Bank Building. Mr. Mills is a democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and of Lodge No. 1169, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1908 Mr. Mills was married to Miss Edna DERRICK, daughter of W. A. Derrick, for many years a minister of the gospel of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Reverend Derrick is now an old man and resides in Wheeler County, Texas. Mr. Mills and wife have one child, Frances Byron, born October 10, 1914. It may be said here that the Mills family is one of the old ones that came to this country from England in early Colonial days, settling in Pennsylvania, where many of the name are to be found today. Jonathan Mills, grandsire of the subject, was born in Illinois, whither a branch of the family had migrated, and he later lived in Mississippi and still later in Texas, where he died in advanced years. He was a farmer and a successful merchant, and like all the family, of the Methodist faith. His wife was a Miss BOND, born in Illinois, and she died in Burleson, Texas. Typed for OKGenWeb by by Connie Ardrey, 20 July 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).