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* MILLS. 519 MILMAN. j-ears in mission work in the Soutiiern and Western States. He suggested the formation of a national Bible society, which resulted in the organization of the American Bible Society. To him was due the formation of the United Foreign Mission Society. Through his exertions in conjunction with T>i: Fiiiley, the American Colonization Society was formed in 1817, and ' he was appointed with Dr. Burgess to visit Eng- land in behalf of the society, and to explore the west coast of Africa for a suitable site for a colony of colored jicople from America. He sailed in November, 1817, and arrived on the coast March 12th. He embarked for the United States, May 22, 1818, and died at sea June 10th. He is called the 'father of foreign missions in America.' Consult the memoir by Spring (New York. 18.i4). MILLS, Seb.stian Bach (1838-98). An Anglo-American piano virtuoso and teacher, born at Cirencester, in England. He was trained by his father and inider Potter and Sterndale Ben- nett, and was regarded as the most precocious child musician in Great Britain. He completed his musical education under Moseheles. Plaidy, and the other distinguished teachers of the Leipzig Conservatory, After leaving Loij)zig he studied for a period under Liszt, who held him in higli estimation. He returned for a little' while to England, where he held the appointment of organist at the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Shellicld (1855). Three years later he returned to Germany, and played at a Gewandhaus con- cert (December 2, 1858). The following year he appeared in New York under the auspices of the riiilliarmonic Society, and thereafter made his home in this country. He was very successful as a teacher, and was as popular in Germany as in the United States as a concert pianist. His compositions are few and comparatively unim- portant. He died at Wiesbaden. MILLS COLLEGE AND SEMINARY. An educational institution for young women at Seminary Park. Alameda County, Cal.. founded in 1871 as Mills Seminary and chartered as a college in 1885. It comprises a collegiate depart- ment leading to the degree of A.B.. and a business dei)artment, ofl'ering courses in bookkeeping, stenography, and type-vriting. In in02 the stti- dents numbered 200 and the instructors 35. The endowment of the college is $150,000, and the value of the looperty $400,000. MILL SPRINGS, Battle of. A battle fought at Mill Springs, Ky.. about 10 miles west of Somerset, on January 19, 1862, between a Federal force of about 4000 men under General George H. Thomas and an approximately equal Coirfederate force under General George I?. Crittenden. The Confederates attacked with great energy, Init were finally driven in some confusion froni the field. The engagement is also sometimes called the battle of Fishing Creek, and the battle of Logan's Cross Roads. On the battleground a national cemetery was subsequently established, where 718 soldiers lie tniried. 352 knt)wn and ."iOG unknown. MILLSTONE. A wheel or circular mass of rock used in grinding wheat and other grains. For good millstones the rock must be tough, hard, and possess a cellular structure so as to maintain a rough grinding stirface. Several varieties of rocks have been found to possess these qualities in a greater or less degree, and have been extensively employed for millstones. In the United States the rock most commonly used is a coarse granular sandstone, which is obtained in Ulster County, N. V., in Lancaster County, Pa., and in .Montgomery County. Va. The celebrated French l)uhrstones consist of a cellular chert occurring in the Tertiary of the Paris basin. The German millstones are largely quarried from a sheet of basaltic lava found near Cologne. The foreign stone is imported into the United States in small pieces and is then built up into wheels, while the domestic stone is quarried and dressed to form a solid wheel. The introduction of the loller process for the manti- facture of Hour has ctirtailed the use of mill- stones to a great extent. In 1901 the production of millstones in the United States was valued at $57,179. See Abrasives. MILLSTONE GRIT. A hard siliceous con- glomerate with quartz pebbles. Its geological position is at the base of the middle Carboni- ferotis age. The beds along the Appalachian range in Pennsylvania are very coarse and are over 1200 feet thick. The rock here is a light- colored siliceous conglomerate known as the Pottsville Conglomerate, interstratified with some sandstone and thin lieds of carbonaceous shells. The formation is represented also in New York and as far south as Alabama. See Carboniferous System. MILL'VALE. A borough in Allegheny County, Pa,, on the Allegheny River, opposite Pitt.sburg, and on tlie Pennsylvania, the Pitts- burg and Western, and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsbtirg railroads (Map: Pennsylvania, B 3). It has important iron manufactures, foundries, saw works, stone works, lumber mills, brew-eries. etc. The government is vested in a btirgess. elected every three years, and a borough council. The water-works and electric light plant are owned bv the munieipalitv. Population, in 1890, 3809: in 1900, 0736, MILL'VILLE. A city in Cumberland County. N. J., 40 miles south of Philadelphia: on the JIattrice River, at the head of deep-water navigation, and on the Pennsylvania Railroad (Map: New Jersey, B 5). It has city and high- school libraries, and a fine high-school building, also a large jniblic park at Union Lake, a beau- tiful sheet of water, three miles long and one and a half in width, in the noi-thern part of the city. Millville is essentially a manufacturing centre, having extensive glass fai^tories, iron foundries, cotton mills, and bleach and dye works. Under a revised charter of 1873, the government is vested in a mayor, elected every three years, and a common council, the thirteen members of which are all, except one, elected by wards. Millville was incorporated as a town in 1801 and was chartered as a citv in 18C6. Population, in 1890. 10,002; in litOO, 10,.583, MIL'MAN, Henry Hart (1791-1868), An English poet and ecclesiastical historian. He was the youngest son of Sir F^rancis ililman. physician to George III., and was born in Lon- don, Fel)ruary 10, 1791. He was educated at Eton and afterwards at Brasenose College, Ox- ford, where he obtained the Newdigate Prize with an English poem on the Apollo Belvidere in 1812 and graduated B,A. in 1814. He published Fazio, n Tnir/edy, which was successfully brought upon the stage at Covent Garden in 1815; took