Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Mills, George J. 7 June 1850 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 551-552

   GEORGE J. MILLS. One of Savannah's leading citizens is George J. Mills, who
has come to attain an admirable and influential position among the able
financiers of the city. The success attained in his business enterprises has
been greatly owing to his steady persistence, stern integrity and excellent
judgment, qualities which cause him to take rank with the eminent men in this
section of the state, besides winning for him the confidence and esteem of the
public to a marked degree. Mr. Mills was born in this city on the 7th day of
June, 1850, the son of Capt. J. G. and Hettie Mariah (Cope) Mills. Captain Mills
was born at St. Marys, Camden county, Georgia. For a long number of years before
the war he was a prominent figure in maritime affairs on the Atlantic ocean.
Starting as a youth before the mast, he was promoted through his own merit and
efficiency to higher positions and became the master of a sailing vessel. Later
Captain Mills went into the ocean shipping business for himself; he established
and for several years was the owner of the Mills line of sailing vessels,
operating between Savannah and Liverpool, and in this business he accumulated a
comfortable fortune, all the more creditable from the fact that he started in
with nothing. The Mills line of sailing vessels had to go out of business on
account of the war, and after the termination of sectional hostilities, Captain
Mills became a member, with his brother, of the firm of T. R. & J. G. Mills,
cotton merchants of Savannah; which business was continued until about 1874,
when Captain Mills retired from active business life. He died on September 24,
1880.

   Mr. Mills is bound to Savannah by all the most important associations of
life. He was reared and educated in the city of his birth and has been in
business here ever since he became of age. He found his first field of
occupation in his father's cotton business, and afterward, with the elder
gentleman went into the private banking business, in which he continued after
the demise of Captain Mills. His unusually fine business qualifications have
brought success to a number of enterprises. He is a capitalist, having large
financial interests in various important commercial and industrial concerns and
he is one of the financial bulwarks of Savannah. He is chairman of the Sinking
Fund Commission of Savannah. He was made a member of this commission in 1907,
and has served upon it continuously since that time. He is a director of the
Central ofi Georgia Railway; a director of the Merchants' National Bank; and a
director, or stockholder in various other corpora-tons. He has also acted
efficiently and with public spirit in various philanthropic movements in the
city and is president of the Savannah Hospital Association and a director of the
Savannah Port Society. He is chairman of the board of trustees of the
Independent Presbyterian church. Regarded as a citizen, Mr. Mills belongs to
that useful and helpful type of men, whose ambitions and desires are centered
and directed in those channels through which flows the greatest and most
permanent good to the greatest number. His sympathies are ever with his less
fortunate brothers and with no one is the betterment of the "other half" a more
vital issue.
   Mr. Mills was married in Savannah, Miss Euphemia F. Postell, member of a
prominent South Carolina family of that name, becoming his wife. Mrs. Mills is a
sister of that well-known gentleman, Col. C. Postell, of Savannah. Their
daughter, Sarah C., is the wife of Henry W. Hodge, a civil engineer and bridge
builder of New York City.



Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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