Samuel Sylvester Mills Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Hon.
Samuel Sylvester Mills
Office:Senator for Ontario
Appointed:Royal Proclamation
Term Start:October 23, 1867
Term End:January 24, 1874
Office2:Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada
Term Start2:1849
Term End2:1867
Birth Date:1 December 1806
Birth Place:Hamilton, Upper Canada
Death Place:Hamilton, Ontario
Party:Conservative

Samuel Sylvester Mills (December 1, 1806  - January 24, 1874) was a Canadian businessman and politician.

He was born in Burlington Bay, later Hamilton, in Upper Canada in 1806. He went into the business of selling hardware, also expanding into shipping, construction, mills and real estate, and quickly became one of the richest people in the area at the time. He served on the town council for Hamilton. Mills also served as president of the Gore Bank. In 1849, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. At Confederation in 1867, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada. He died while still in office at Hamilton in 1874.

He donated land to the city of Hamilton for use as a cemetery, which later became part of Harvey Park.

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