SOURCE: History of the upper peninsula of Michigan : containing a full account of its early settlement, its growth, development, and resources, an extended description of its iron and copper mines : also, accurate sketches of its counties, cities, towns, and villages ... biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers.
Collection: Michigan County Histories Pages 504

NORRIS D. MIHILLS, general supply merchant, was born in St. Mary's, Ohio, in 1857; came to Wisconsin in infancy, with his parents; was educated at Buffalo, N. Y.; in 1872, went to Fond du Lac, in the lumber business, where he remained until 1879. In the meantime, he was burned out several times, with losses from $300,000 to $500,000. Came to Florence in 1880, where he engaged in the grocery and general supply business, and was again burned out in May, 1881; rebuilt, and was again in business in about two months; was married to Miss Mary E. Coburn, of Fond du Lac, in 1876.