Joseph Trotter Mills
{{short description|19th century American politician and judge.}}
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|honorific-prefix = The Honorable
|name = Joseph T. Mills
|image = Joseph T. Mills.png
|caption = Portrait from History of Grant County Wisconsin (1900)
|office = {{nowrap|Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge}} {{nowrap|for the 5th Circuit}}
| term_start = January 2, 1865
| term_end = January 1, 1877
| predecessor = Montgomery M. Cothren
| successor = Montgomery M. Cothren
|office1 = Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
|constituency1 = Grant 2nd district
| term_start1 = January 6, 1879
| term_end1 = January 5, 1880
| predecessor1 = Thomas J. Graham
| successor1 = John A. Klindt
|constituency2 = Grant 3rd district
| term_start2 = January 6, 1862
| term_end2 = January 5, 1863
| predecessor2 = Hanmer Robbins
| successor2 = J. Allen Barber
|constituency3 = Grant 4th district
| term_start3 = January 7, 1856
| term_end3 = January 4, 1858
| predecessor3 = William W. Field
| successor3 = Charles K. Dean
|office4 = District Attorney of Grant County, Wisconsin
| appointer4 = Alexander Randall
| term_start4 = August 1861
| term_end4 = Summer 1864
| predecessor4 = Allen R. Bushnell
| successor4 = Allen R. Bushnell
| term_start5 = January 3, 1859
| term_end5 = January 7, 1861
| predecessor5 = Edward D. Lowry
| successor5 = Allen R. Bushnell
|party = Republican
|birth_date = {{birth date|1812|12|18}}
|birth_place = Cane Ridge, Kentucky, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1897|11|22|1812|12|18}}
|death_place = Denver County, Colorado, U.S.
|restingplace = Hillside Cemetery, {{nowrap|Lancaster, Wisconsin}}
|spouse = {{unbulleted list
| {{marriage|Evalina Warner||1841|end=died}}
| {{marriage|Rebecca Warner|1842|1857|end=died}}
| {{marriage|Mary Ann Coumbe|1860|1893|end=died}}
}}
|children = {{unbulleted list
| Mary Evelina Warner Mills
| {{sup|(b. 1844; died 1845)}}
| Evalina (Anderson)
| {{sup|(b. 1846; died 1930)}}
| Jared Warner Mills
| {{sup|(b. 1852; died 1907)}}
| Benjamin Mills
| {{sup|(b. 1857; died 1858)}}
}}
|relatives = Benjamin Mills (uncle)
}}
Joseph Trotter Mills (December 18, 1812{{spaced ndash}}November 22, 1897) was an American attorney, jurist, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served four one-year terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, and was Wisconsin circuit court judge for the 5th circuit from 1865 through 1877.
Biography
Born in 1812 in Cane Ridge, Kentucky,{{cite news|title=An Old Resident Gone: Judge Joseph Mills of Manitowoc Passes Away in Denver|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10840660/joseph_trotter_mills_18121897/|newspaper=The Daily Tribune|date=November 27, 1897|page=6|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 8, 2017}} {{Open access}} near Paris, Joseph Trotter Mills as a youth lived and studied with his uncle Benjamin Mills, who was a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Moving west, in 1831 Mills studied at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
He worked as a tutor in 1834 and 1835, teaching the children of Colonel Zachary Taylor, then commanding officer of Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory. Later Mills married and had a family.
He prepared to change his work by reading the law with an established firm; in 1844, he was admitted to the Wisconsin bar. He practiced law in Lancaster, Wisconsin. From 1865 to 1877, Mills served as Wisconsin Circuit Court judge. In 1856, 1857, 1862, and 1879, Mills served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican.Wisconsin Blue Book 1879, "Biographical Sketch of Joseph T. Mills," p. 493 His son-in-law, James Sibree Anderson, was also a member of the Assembly.
Mills died at his son's home in Denver, Colorado.Report of the Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin State Bar Association, Madison, Wisconsin, February 2–3, 1901, Tayor and Gleason Book and Job Printers, Madison, Wisconsin: 1901, "Biographical Sketch of Joseph Trotter Mills," pg. 326
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|217987746|Joseph Trotter Mills}}
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Category:People from Paris, Kentucky
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