A. J. Mills

Andrew Jackson Mills (May 8, 1841 – December 25, 1925) was an American politician and farmer from Dakota Territory and Washington. He served in the Dakota Territorial Legislature from 1870 to 1872 and served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897.

Early life Andrew Jackson Mills was born on May 8, 1841, on a farm in Lake County, Illinois. He attended a village school until the age of 17. He then attended a school in Chicago until the American Civil War broke out. From 1865 to 1868, he worked in real estate in Chicago. From the fall of 1868 to 1880, he raised livestock and farmed in the Dakota Territory. He helped erect the school building in Lake Shore and plant the maple trees around it. He was a member of Ellsworth Post No. 2 of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was a member of Washington Lodge No. 4, the Free and Accepted Masons, Martha Washington Chapter No. 42 of the Order of the Eastern Star, and the Lake Shore Grange.

Mills fell off the steps of the Vancouver Public Library striking the cement sidewalk in December 1925. He died the following week on December 25, 1925, at his home in Lake Shore. He was buried in Vancouver Masonic Cemetery.