Daniel Webster "Web" Mills (1838-1904)

"No doubt a number of our older citizens remember D. W. Mills, better known as Web Mills, who was born and raised at Lytle and continued a resident of Wayne township until about the year 1866, and was well known. He did not marry until after moving to Chicago, but remained a gay society man, always drove a fine team and was very obliging and generous in taking parties of young people to social or public gatherings. He followed merchandising for a time in what is now the Kilbon store at Corwin. A few days ago, the Gazette received from C. M. Cartwright a clipping from a late Chicago paper which reads as follows:
“Daniel W. Mills, former congressman, alderman and prominent real estate agent died December 16 at his home, 1510 Washington boulevard from a complication of diseases. An operation was performed Wednesday, but the strength of the patient was so impaired that he succumbed.
For many years Mr. Mills was identified with political and other public affairs in Chicago. He was born in Waynesville, Ohio, in 1838, a descendant of a member of the Quaker band that settled in America with William Penn in 1682. He served in the civil war and at the end of the struggle retired with the rank of captain in Company D, One Hundred and Eighth Ohio Volunteers. Coming to Chicago in 1866, he became a manufacturer of candies, and later entered the lake shipping trad. He became a fixture in politics, and from 1877 to 1881 served as warden of the Cook County Hospital. He was elected alderman of the old Twelfth ward for two terms, and in 1896 was sent to Congress from the old fourth district. For many years, he was engaged in the realty business. Mr. Mills was a member of several fraternal societies and of the Menoken, Lincoln and Hamilton clubs. The funeral was in charge of Columbia Posts, G. A. R., and the honorary pall bearers were members of the Masonic fraternity, in which Mr. Mills was a 32° member.""

Source: D. W. Mills Obituary, Miami Gazette (Waynesville, Ohio), Wednesday, December 28, 1904, p.8 c.3-4
Copy from the Obituary Collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society,

by
Arne H Trelvik
8 November 2016