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  Wabash College: History
The first faculty member of Wabash was Caleb Mills, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Seminary, who arrived in 1833 and immediately established the character of the school.
Each fall, Caleb Mills' bell is used to "ring in" the freshman class as students of Wabash College, and each spring the bell "rings out" that year's class of Wabash men as they move on to new challenges.
Caleb Mills declared the aims of the college to be learning, virtue, and service.
www.wabash.edu /aboutwabash/history.cfm   (308 words)

  
 Delaware Chapter XLVI
MILL CREEK HUNDRED is situated in the north-western part of New Castle County, and is bounded on the north and west by the Circle, on the east by Red Clay Creek and on the south by White Clay Creek.
The mills are the chief means of livelihood for many of the residents of this section of the hundred, employment being given to one hundred and fifty operatives.
After the long period of thirty-nine years, the old mill was found to be in such a dilapidated condition, and so far behind the needs of the continually increasing demands for more and better, as well as the cheaper paper, that the new firm reluctantly concluded to erect a larger and more modern plant.
www.accessible.com /amcnty/DE/Delaware/delaware46.htm   (10726 words)

  
 Mills Ancestry, Mills family genealogy from colonial America and Canada up to 1900, Westchester Co., Long Island, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Children: 17 F i Clarissa Mills, born on 6 Jan 1787 at Mills Pond, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., New York; died on 7 Jan 1821.
23 M vii Caleb Mills, born in Jan 1801 at Mills Pond, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., New York; died on 24 Jun 1801 at Mills Pond, Smithtown, Suffolk Co., New York; buried at Mills Graveyard, Mills Pond, Smithtown, Li, Ny.
Children: 41 F i Anna Mills, born on 14 Jun 1793; died on 20 Mar 1794; buried at Mills Graveyard, Mills Pond, Smithtown, Li, Ny.
www.geocities.com /millsancestry/m202.htm   (2415 words)

  
 Caleb Mills
The college had been founded because the trustees felt there was a need in what was then the far west of the United States for a college to educate teachers and preachers.
Mills was a strong advocate for a public education system, and he later became the second superintendent of public education for the state.
He served at Wabash as a professor of languages—he was the first Lafayette Professor of Greek Language and Literature—and as principal of the normal school.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0901745.html   (170 words)

  
 CDPL:Library Building Project
Caleb Mills was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in1806, one of eight children born to a wealthy farmer.
Mills himself was the second to hold that office, and helped establish the system he had designed and promoted.
Caleb Mills is widely acknowledged to be the father of public education in Indiana.
www.cdpl.lib.in.us /newlib/writers/writers.html   (5297 words)

  
 CALEB MILLS FAMILY PAPERS, 1834-1880
Mills married Sarah Marshall in September1833 and moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, two months later.  Their son, Benjamin Marshall Mills (1846–69), figures prominently in the collection.  Benjamin Mills first enrolled in Company C, 108
The collection centers on the papers of Caleb Mills but includes those of his son, Benjamin Marshall Mills, as well.
Included with the original manuscripts are photocopies made in 1963 from selected Mills items in the Lilly Library, Wabash College.  There are twenty-four items including the letters of Mills to Edmund O. Hovey (1801–77), one from Selina Wyatt concerning the establishment of a female seminary in the Wabash valley in 1849, and several sermons.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0207.html   (538 words)

  
 Paul B. Mills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She was born Oct. 13, 1893 in Farmington to the late Henry A. Mills and Mary Ann Moore Mills.
She was born Dec. 31, 1906 in Flat River, the daughter of the late Henry A. and Mary Moore Mills.
Two relatives of Mrs Mills died and were buried on the two previous Easter Sunday, the first of them, two years ago, the other a year ago.
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 MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Indiana
In the late 1840s and early 1850s the need for free tax-supported schools in Indiana was strongly urged by Caleb Mills, a prominent Indianan educator, and in 1851 his recommendations were incorporated in a new state constitution.
Although the development of a public school system was delayed by legal complications within the state and by the American Civil War (1861-1865), many public elementary schools were in use by 1870.
In Spring Mill State Park, in the southern part of the state, some of the state’s largest tulip trees and white oaks form part of the park’s extensive area of woodlands.
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 December 11 -15
Caleb Ronald Edward Anderson, 13-month-old son of Kathie P. Anderson and Ronald E. Luecht, died Tuesday (Dec. 9, 1997) at his home, Lake Mills.
Caleb Ronald Edward Anderson was born Nov. 1, 1996, at Mercy Hospital, Mason City, the son of Kathie Anderson and Ronald Luecht.
Survivors include her mother, Senora Brunsvold, Lake Mills; two sons, Kevin and Jeff; one granddaughter, Taylor Chose, and one step-granddaughter, Krystal Benson, all of Kiester.
www.pafways.org /obituaries/mcgg/1997/dec3.htm   (5456 words)

  
 The End of a Hundred Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hopkins, accompanied by his wife and two daughters of high school age, moved into the old Caleb Mills home at No. 2 Mills Place.
The Caleb Mills house, former home of the college's first professor, was donated to the college by the Mills family to be the home for the college president.
The Caleb Mills home still, to this day, serves as the residents of the College President.
www.wabash.edu /orgs/sphinx/Hundred.htm   (530 words)

  
 Wabash College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wabash College is a small private liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
It was founded in 1832 by a number of men including several Dartmouth College graduates and Caleb Mills, the man who would later become the father of the Indiana public education system and would work throughout his life to improve in the Mississippi Valley area.
Although Mills, like many of the founders, was a Presbyterian minister, they were committed that Wabash should be independent and non-sectarian.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wabash_College   (1315 words)

  
 History of Indiana, The State's Development to 1836; Education, Wabash College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As has been said in a previous section the Presbyterians of Indiana stood pre-eminently for education, and as the Hanover school was established for the promoting of an education clergy so was the original of Wabash College founded for the training of teachers.
This school, under the name of "The Wabash Manual Labor College and Teachers' Seminary," was opened at Wabash on the 3rd of December 1822, with an attendance of twelve pupils and with Professor Caleb Mills at its head.
Like Hanover this embryo college languished for want of support and struggled under debt, to which was added the misfortune of a fire in 1838 that all but wiped it out.
www.countyhistory.com /history/143.htm   (137 words)

  
 Study Questions: Day 14
How did Mills present his ideas to the General Assembly and the delegates to the second Constitutional Convention ?
Why, according to Caleb Mills's 1846 "Address to the Legislature," was the revenue derived from the federal land grants in each township inadequate for the establishment and maintenance of a common school system?
What relationship between literacy and support, or lack thereof, did Mills discover in the 1847 referendum on legislation to establish a free public school system?
www.bsu.edu /classes/doyle/hist415/day14.htm   (638 words)

  
 Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis
Today we still have different levels of membership, but tickets are sold at the door also.
Our 1st Sustaining membership concert was on April 12, 1948 at Caleb Mills Auditorium of Shortridge High School.
The majority of concerts, if you had to name one place, were given at Caleb Mills Auditorium of Shortridge High School.
www.philharmonicindy.org /main.php?page=aboutPhil   (987 words)

  
 The Caleb Pusey House and Landingford Plantation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Built in 1683 and occupied by Caleb Pusey, this is the only building still standing which can claim documented association with the Proprietor, William Penn, and which he is known to have visited on several occasions.
"Landing Ford" was the name Pusey gave to the 100 - acre plantation adjoining the mill site which Penn had deeded to him and which he cultivated to raise food for his large family.
Pusey had come to Pennsylvania in 1682 to serve Penn as manager and agent for the Chester Mills, the first official Proprietary saw and grist mill to be established by Penn in the colony.
www.delcohistory.org /fcph   (159 words)

  
 Mills Family Genealogy
Ancestry.com users - See Mills Family Tree for individual charts.
- her sister Sarah Mills married Nathaniel Cloyes.
Caleb Kimball II on 15 Jun 1704 in Wells, York Co., Me.
www.aritek.com /hartgen/htm/mills.htm   (440 words)

  
 The Presbyterians and Congregationalists in 19th Century Indiana
At the same time, Congregational missionaries John F. Schermerhorn and Samuel J. Mills were also traveling in the area.
The sentiment was so strong on campus that Professor Caleb Mills encouraged his son, Benjamin Marshall Mills to enlist.
Young Mills joined the war as an officer in an African American regiment, knowing he faced immediate execution if ever captured by Confederate forces.
www.connerprairie.org /historyonline/presby.html   (3235 words)

  
 Sample   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1911 a new school was built on the site, which became Crawfordsville High School (Cline, 58).
The old Mills faced Main; the new Mills faces Pike Street (Cline, 62).
In 1911 a new school was built on the site [of Central School], which became Crawfordsville High School.
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 Barkhamsted Hollow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The earthen Saville Dam was built to stem the east branch of the Farmington River, thus creating the reservoir.
The dam was named for the project's chief engineer, Caleb Mills Saville.
According to Paul Hart, Barkhamsted Historical Society, as quoted at Connecticut Routes:
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barkhamsted_Hollow   (317 words)

  
 The Private Sea - Chapter 9
Later we left the shop together, heading for Robinson's temporary digs at the Caleb Mills House, and the balding, pink-cheeked bishop seemed a lonely figure as he walked across the campus through a misty rainfall, his macintosh flapping in the wind.
Some three years before, with the publication of a little book titled Honest to God, he had been attacked as a heretic, a traitor to the faith and a false prophet; now—bitter pill—there were some who regarded him as a theological square: in fact a real cube.
At Wabash I had a long talk with Robinson in the library of the Caleb Mills House, and I asked him, among other things, "However that word God is finally translated, do you believe that it transcends our Being?" He replied, "Yes.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/braden9.htm   (7039 words)

  
 Issues in Economics Today | About the Author
He has worked extensively in the area of pharmaceutical economics suggesting that the private market's patent system, while necessary for drug innovation, is unnecessary and inefficient for production.
In 1998, Dr. Guell was the youngest faculty member ever to have been given Indiana State University's Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award.
His talent as a champion of quality teaching was recognized again in 2000, as he was named Project Manager for the Lilly Project to Transform the First-Year Experience, a Lilly Endowment funded project to raise first-year persistence rates at Indiana State.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072345772/information_center_view0/about_the_author.html   (262 words)

  
 IPT5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It made its debut on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 2, 1930 at Shortridge High School’s Caleb Mills Hall.
Its conductor was Ferdinand Schaefer, a native of Germany who had been brought to Indianapolis by the Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts in 1904.
He will be following the journey of the orchestra through the Caleb Mills years to the Murat, Clowes Hall and the restored Circle Theater, its home since 1984.
www.indyprimetimes.com /html/ipt5.html   (1271 words)

  
 M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The old flour mill stood for over sixty years and was destroyed by fire Sunday evening, May 20, 1911, and the woolen mill was abandoned and taken away many years ago.
The Magee home was for many years on the lots now occupied by the Lougbry Brothers Milling and Grain Company.
There the family lived for more than a quarter of a century until the death of both parents in 1875, when the family home was abandoned.
www.brookston.lib.in.us /WhiteCo/biographies-M.htm   (12506 words)

  
 Minutes, Indianapolis Greenways Development Committee
In partnership with DPW, the Caleb Mills Organization, IUPUI, the Indianapolis Foundation, local neighborhoods, schools, and local arts groups, Indy Greenways will develop and manage the basin as an art and nature park.
DPR Greenways is working with trail neighbors to develop trail amenities, and with DPR Planning to hire a design firm for a site master plan, install a sign recognizing partners, and resurface the trail.
The Caleb Mills Organization just received a $5,000 grant from the Noyes Foundation for Pogues Run, and they raised $1,200 at their second annual Pogues Run fundraiser September 18, 2004.
www.indygreenways.org /igdc/igdc-min_feb05.htm   (720 words)

  
 The plain truth: We love vanilla - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Food - A&E
Starting young at the Ice Creamsmith in Dorchester Lower Mills are Caleb Buon (front), 3, with Elijah Joseph, and Ivan Rutkowski-Ansell, 2, with Mary Rutkowski.
Three giggling and whispering teenage girls study the big signboard covering the back wall of the Ice Creamsmith in Dorchester Lower Mills.
The Ice Creamsmith, 2295 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester Lower Mills, 617-296-8567.
www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2005/06/29/the_plain_truth_we_love_vanilla?page=2   (966 words)

  
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Dec 26 1860, d Dec 8 1948, married Caleb Christopher Mills, b.
Jan 27, 1904 begat Caleb Christopher Mills who married Dulcen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DOUG MOORE (moore@asu.edu) ***** My ggg-grandfather Joel MOORE settled in Monroe (Barren) Co, KY, in 1800 and was joined there by his brother John MOORE several years later.
The descendants of John MOORE were studied extensively by Lunelle Moore in the 1960s and these were published in David Trimble's book, "Hiestand Family of Page County, Virginia" in 1974.
www.public.asu.edu /~moore/news/newsb06a   (3052 words)

  
 Caleb Mills --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
American educator known as the father of Indiana's public schools.
Mills, the son of a farmer, was educated at local schools and at the Pembroke Academy before entering Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. He graduated in 1828 and then pursued theological studies at Andover Theological Seminary in Andover, Mass., completing his…
"Mills, Caleb" Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9052739   (82 words)

  
 Carson-Tahoe Hospital official contract extended (printable version)
He has been Carson-Tahoe’s CEO since August 2001 and has been with the company since 1994.
Board Chairman Caleb Mills lauded Epperson’s work to run the hospital and oversee plans for a new regional medical center.
“Running a hospital while building a hospital is no simple feat and Ed has done it well,” Mills said.
www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=46121   (135 words)

  
 Filings begin Monday for important Carson and Douglas seats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At Carson-Tahoe Hospital, chair Tom Metcalf, and trustee Caleb Mills said they plan to run again.
Caleb Mills, 60, said his occupation as the human resources director at Employers Insurance Company of Nevada allows him to have a different viewpoint from the rest of the five-member board.
In Minden, the three men elected in 1996 to form a new majority on the Douglas County Commission said they all plan to file for re-election first thing Monday morning.
www.rgj.com /cgi-bin/printstory.cgi?publish_date=20000429&story=956984100   (1306 words)

  
 The Official Site of Author D. H. Schleicher
With its shady, crime-laden past and uncertain future, the denizens of Notlingburg are sent adrift into a twilight realm where the lines between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, daydream and nightmare are increasingly blurred.
His only escape from his uncertain and harsh realities is the local rumor mills and old ghost stories that haunt his town.
One mystery concerning the disappearance of a young woman named Dorina Sayler some twenty years earlier becomes his de-facto spiritual quest.
www.angelfire.com /nc3/crematorium   (301 words)

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