History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

MILLS, LEONARD M.,  a descendant of Vermont ancestors, was born in 
Sutton, P.Q., April 25, 1843, the second of eight children born to Reuben 
and Ruth Mills.  The older residents of Richford will remember when 
Reuben Mills had charge of the grist-mill there, but it is not generally known 
that the grandfather of our subject, Moses Mills, hewed the timber used in 
the construction of the original mill on the site in 1797.  Leonard M. Mills 
was brought up to the trade of his father, and at the age of twenty-four years 
went to Wisconsin, where he became engaged in this business, and remained 
six years.  In 1872 he came to Richford and purchased the William Goff 
grist-mill, which he has since owned and operated.  In 1886 the structure 
was substantially rebuilt and it is now known as one of the best feed and 
grist-mills in the county.  In 1882 Mr. Mills married Ruth, daughter of 
Ephraim Hawley, of which marriage one child, a daughter, has been born.

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