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resulted in the formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was licensed to preach in lbi2, and with the Rev. F. Schermerhorn of the Reformed Dutch church, made a missionary tour through southwestern United States under the patronage of the Con- necticut and Massacliusetts Missionary societies. He made a second tour in 1814-15, accompanied by the Rev. David Smith, and while in New Orleans, La., finding it impossible to purchase a Bible, he procured a supply in both French and English and distributed them. He was ordained at Newburyport, June 31, 1815 ; resided success- ively in Albany, N.Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and in Washington, D.C., 1815-17, and was influential in establishing the American Bible society in May, 1816, and afterward the United Foreign Missionary society. He devoted himself to the elevation of the colored race in the United States and Africa. It was chiefly through his efforts that the synod of New York and New Jersey established a school for the training of young colored men as preachers and teachers of the African race in 1816. He served as the agent of this institution in the middle states, and in Jan- uary, 1817, on the organization of the American Colonization society was chosen to explore the western coast of Africa and select the most eligible place for a settlement. The Rev. Ebene- zer Burgess accompanied him on this mission, and they sailed for London, England, in Novem- ber. 1817, and for Africa in February, 1818, reach- ing their destination in March, 1818. After ful- filling the duties of his mission Mr. Mills took passage from Sierra Leone for London in the brig Success, May 22. 1818. He published an ac- count of his missionary tours in the southern and western parts of the United States in 1815. See Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills by Gard- ner Spring (1854). He died at sea on the voyage from Sierra Leone to London, June 16, 1818.

MILLS, Susan Tolman, educator, was born in Enosburgh. Vt., Nov. 18, 1825 ; daughter of John and Elizal^eth (Nichols) Tolman ; granddaughter of Desire and Sarah (Howe) Tolman, and of Levi and Relief (Boutell) Nichols, and a descend- ant of Thomas Tolman, who landed at Nan- tasket, Mass., May 29, 1630, and was a member of the party that bought from the Indians the tract of land on which Dorchester and adjacent towns in Massachusetts were built. Her family removed from Vermont in 1836 to Ware, Mass., and she attended the public schools, the seminary at West Brookfield, Mass., was graduated from Mt. Holyoke seminary, Mass., in 1845. and was an instructor at Mt. Holyoke, 1845-48. She was mar- ried, Sept. 11, 1848, to the Rev. Cyrus Taggart Mills, and accompanied her husband to India, where she assisted him in his educational work.

She was a teacher at Batticotta college, Jaffna, Ceylon, 1848-55 ; at Oahu college, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, 1860-64 ; returned to America, and removed with her husband to California in 1865. She was associated with Dr. Mills as a teacher at the Young Ladies' seminary, Benicia, Cal., 1865-71. They removed the seminary from Benicia to Seminary Park, Alameda county, Cal., in 1871, and she continued as Dr. Mills's assistant until his death in 1884, when she succeeded him as president and treasurer, also serving as teacher of Bible and tlieism. She donated the Mr. and Mrs. John Tolman scholarship of $5,000 in mem- ory of her father and mother, and the Mr. and Mrs. Lucian A. Tolman scholarship of $5,000 in memory of lier brother and sister.

MILLSON, John S., representative, was born in Norfolk, Va.. Oct. 1, 1808. He attended an academy, began the study of law in 1824, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. He settled in prac- tice in Norfolk, was a presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844, and on the Cass and Butler ticket in 1848, and was a representa- tive from the first Virginia district in the 31st- 36th congresses, 1849-61. He took no part in the civil war. He died at Norfolk. Va.. Feb. 26, 1873.

MILLSPAUGH, Frank Rosebrook, third bishop of Kansas and 176th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Nichols, Tioga county, N.Y., April 13, 1848 ; son of Cornelius and Elmira (Rosebrook) Millspaugh, and of Dutch descent, his great- grandfather, Peter von Miltzbach, set- tling in Orange coun- ty, N.Y., with his wife, Elsie Kimbark, a French Huguenot refugee who boast- ed of royal blood. The next generation changed the name. His father removed to Faribault, Minn., in 1857, and there

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Breck (q.v.). He was graduated from Shattuck Hall in 1870, and from Seabury Divinity school, B.D., 1873 ; was ordered deacon, June 22, 1873, ordained priest, June 21, 1874, and was a mission- ary in Minnesota, 1873-76. He was dean of Trinity cathedral, Omaha, Neb., 1876-86; con- tinually represented the diocese as president of the standing committee and delegate to the gen- eral convention ; was rector of St. Paul's church, Minneapolis, 1886-94, and dean of Grace cathe- dral, Topeka, Kan., 1894-95. He was elected