California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 MRS. LUCINDA MASON MILLS.� The ex-president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Kelseyville, who is also a member of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian Church and one of its leaders in mis- sionary and philanthropic enterprises as well as a potent factor in its Ladies' Aid Society, is perhaps one of the best known and most highly hon- ored women in Lake county, where since the death of her husband, William H. Mills, a gallant soldier of the Civil war, she has superintended the large estate that was their community property, the results of their united efforts and laborious toil through many years. Born and reared in the great middle west, she possesses the strength of mind and body that was not ordy a family inheritance, but a heritage of the sons and daughters of the vast northwest territory. Her parents, Jacob and Amanda (Harroun) Mason, natives respectively of Crawford county, Pa., and Genesee county, N. Y., married in the Keystone state and later removed to the frontiers of Wis- consin, establishing a home in Rock county. In 1855 a removal was made to Dodge county, Minn., where the young daughter, Lucinda, formed the acquaintance of William H. Mills, a member of an old eastern family of high reputation, himself a native of Jefferson county, N. Y., born March 3, 1840. At the age of sixteen years he had accompanied his parents to Wisconsin and settled at LaCrosse. When he was eighteen the family moved to Minne- sota and settled among the pioneers of Dodge county. At the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Mills offered his services to the Union as a private soldier, assigned to Company M. Minnesota Heavy Artillery, he took part in the memorable engagements at Fort Donelson, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, Resaca, Atlanta, Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Numerous lesser battles also found him in the front holding his place with gallant but positive footing. Nor did he ask for discharge, even when almost exhausted by forced marches and the privations of war. Some months after the close of the war he received an honorable discharge at Nashville, September 27, 1865. and then returned to Minnesota, where. May 2, 1866, he married Miss Lucinda Mason. After their marriage they con- tinued to live in Dodge county, being for a time at Mantorville and later at Concord. In 1872 they came to California and settled in Cobb valley, Lake county, where Mr. Mills had two uncles. Removing to Big: valley in October 1873, they bought one hundred and sixty acres, which they afterward sold, then purchasing one hundred and sixty-four acres. Before the death of Mr. Mills all but sixty-nine acres had been sold, and it is on this tract that Mrs. Mills now lives. The place bears excellent improvements, and since the death of Mr. Mills, July 18, 1904, has been under the personal control of Mrs. Mills, who directs the work of cultivation with energy and intelli- gence. Her older son. William J., is now assisting her; the second son, Charles E., who married Lucy Mathis, is engaged in ranching at Fallon, Nev. ; the older daughter, Daisy L.. Mrs. Walter Grantham, died, leaving one son, Harold M. ; the youngest child, Ida L., is the wife of Lyon Fraser, of Lakeport, sheriff of Lake county, and they have four children.