California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


MILLS, WILLIAM H. Is a native of Jefferson County, New York, and was born March 3, 1841. When 
fifteen years of age, he, with his parents, moved to Minnesota, where he followed farming until June, 
1873, when he came to California, and settled in Cobb Valley, Lake County. Here he spent one year, 
and then moved upon the place where he now lives, about five miles from Lakeport, in Big Valley, 
where he is engaged in farming. Mr. Mills married, May 22, 1866, Miss Lucinda Mason, a native of 
Pennsylvania. They have four living children : Willie Jay, Charley E., Daisy L., and Ida L.