• Lived in Marysville all his life and died in Port Huron.95

• When Nelson Mills and Mary Williams married in 1863 they bought and lived in the house vacated by the Hubbard family. In 1868 the house burned. Myron Mills, then one and one-half years old, miraculously escaped being trapped in the fire. N. Mills then began building the brick home that stood sixty-five years as a landmark on the St. Clair River.315, p 2

• My first work, beginning at about age 14, and during vacations until I finished school, was running logs in booms on river, operating small steam engine and firing boiler in cut-off mill, deck-wolloping, sealing lumber, clerking in general store, telegraph operator, blacksmith’s helper, and other sundry jobs in my father’s saw-mill operations at Marysville.
1888-1896, book-keeper in N. & B. Mills lumber office.
1896-1904, lumber inspector and salesman, same concern.
1904-1920, engaged in electric railway development and operation.
1916-1923, held office of Supervisor in Township of Port Huron. Marysville was detached from the township in 1923, and I became disqualified for the office then.
1929-1933, Postmaster at Marysville.
1904-1929, Director in Port Huron Bank (now 1st Nat. Trust & Savings Bank). Declined re-election when things went bad with me.290

• His schooling finished, Mr. Mills was in the employ of his father, who was extensively engaged in the lumber, mill and transportation business. With the death of his father, Mr. Mills became one of the executors of the estate left by Nelson Mills, which was both large and extensive. Mr. Mills has private interests of a considerable magnitude in St. Clair county, a farm of four hundred acres in Kimball and St. Clair townships being one of his possessions. He is identified prominently with a number of industrial and transportation corporations in the county. In 1903 he became interested in electric railway construction. He was one of the promoters in the development of the Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Railway and with his associates acquired ownership of the street railways in Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, which afterwards developed into the Michigan United Railways Company, of which company he is president. Mr. Mills is a director in the Commercial Bank of Port Huron, and has interests in various enterprises outside the confines of St. Clair county and of Michigan. He has never taken much active interest in politics, the only public office ever held by him being that of justice of the peace in his home township. He has resided continuously at his country home on the banks of the river St. Clair, to which he is greatly attached.
Mr. Mills is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters, and is a Detroit clubman of considerable prominence.12, p 750

• There you have my side of the family tree. I was born 1866, the second child of Mary and Nelson Mills.281

• I am enclosing original of the agreement of Mills Heirs, assigning to your company, Great Western Petroleum Corporation, portion of royalties that may be obtained from wells you are drilling and propose to drill on our land in Richland township; viz,
N 1/2 of SE 1/4 of SW 1/4
Section 31,
Town 21 N - Range 4E331

• Beth’s dad was a millionaire at one time in his life -- owning oil wells, property, railroads, etc. But his brother John, who (I think) was an attorney, invested Myron’s money in a railroad that either didn’t exist or went defunct. He ended being the postmaster of the post office.332

• DEATH TAKES MYRON MILLS
Former Marysville Postmaster Ill More Than Year
[excerpts] Myron W. Mills prominent Marysville resident and son of Nelson and Mary Mills, Marysville pioneers, died early today in Port Huron Hospital after an illness of more than a year. He was 80 years old.
Mr. Mills was removed from his home, 1050 River Road, to the Hospital Monday. Weakened by ill health, he failed to rally and died shortly after 7 a. m.
His death marked the passing of a member of one of Marysville’s most prominent pioneer families. A factor in the City’s industrial growth, Mr. Mills had widespread interests. For several years he was Postmaster of Marysville.
Marysville, originally Vicksburg, was named in honor of his mother.
He is survived by his widow, Mabel Mills, a daughter, Mrs. Thomas D. Currie, Marysville, a sister, Mrs. Emeline M. Elliott, Port Huron, a brother, David W. Mills, Pasadena, Cal., two nieces, Miss Margaret M. Elliott, Port Huron, and Mrs. Hally M. Elliott, Tucson, Ariz., and a nephew, Nelson Mills, San Marino, Cal.333

• David and Gretchen Mills visited his former home on River Road in Marysville in June, 1989.

• 1870 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 3, b MI.302
• 1880 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 12, b MI.101
• 1884 Michigan Census: Port Huron Township, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 16, b MI.102
• 1900 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 39, b Apr 1866, MI. Clerk in office. Father b Canada (Eng); mother b MI.334
• 1910 Census: Port Huron Township, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 44, b MI. President, Electric Rail. Father b Canada (Eng.); mother b MI.335
• 1920 Census: Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 53, b MI. Real Estate; Dealer. Father b Canada Eng; mother b MI.336
• 1930 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 64, b MI. Post Master. Father b Canada Eng; mother b MI.337
• 1940 Census: Marysville, St. Clair, Michigan. Age 74, b MI. Writing; for self.338

• Married six years in 1900.334