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WILLIAM HENRY MILLS, M. D. of Folsomville, was born on Independence Day, 1852, and is one of four children born to John A. J. and Susan (Kelley) Mills, who were of Irish and Irish-Scotch descent respectively. John Andrew Jackson Mills, father of our subject, was born September 17, 1819, in Kentucky, came with his father to Indiana about the year 1830, and in 1846 was married. He died February 3, 1857, His widow was born in this county December 7, 1829, and is yet living an active member of the Baptist Church. Dr. W. H. Mills, subject of this biography, was raised to manhood on a farm, receiving a good common school education in youth. The winters of 1872-73-74-75-76 and 1877, he was engaged in school teaching in Skelton Township, and during the summer, months of the first three years farmed. He also officiated as Township Assessor several summers, and in June, 1876, began the study of medicine, with Drs. Scales and Tyner, of Boonville, with whom he remained two years. For two years he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, which graduated him March 28, 1880, and since then has been busily engaged in the practice of his profession. The winter of 1884 he returned to his alma mater at Cincinnati, and took a special course in surgery and gynecology. Dr. Mills is a thorough student in his profession, is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Masonic brotherhood.