| 词条 | Hiram Mills |
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Major Hiram Mills ({{circa|1796}}–1882) was an American-born philanthropist. Originally from Virginia, Mills moved to Montreal at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.[1][2] Mills inherited a substantial sum from his father, who had been a plantation owner, but generally declined to discuss his previous career and asked that no obituary be published for him.[1] Mills was a generous, but eccentric, philanthropist.[2] The Irish Canadian newspaper reported that he had been a board member of every Protestant charity in Montreal,[1] and in 1879 he helped finance the establishment of a new hospital in the western end of the city.[3] At one point, Mills offered $20,000 to the city to purchase bread for the poor, but attached so many conditions to the bequest that it was refused.[2] Mills joined a Southern Masonic Lodge in 1819 and, upon his death in 1882, it was reported that he had been amongst the oldest, if not the oldest, Freemason in Canada.[1][2] Mills bequeathed $43,000 to McGill College (now McGill University) to establish a gold medal, a scholarship, and an endowed chair in classics.[4] Mills left a further $30,000 to the Western Hospital and $20,000 to the Anglican church, but left no provision for his widow.[5] McGill College and the Anglican synod established a pension of $450 per annum for Mrs. Mills.[5] Mills is interred in a mausoleum at Mount Royal Cemetery.[6] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JIADAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QSoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4821,285446 | title=Home and Foreign News | work=The Irish Canadian | date=10 August 1882 | accessdate=8 September 2013 | pages=2}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Hiram}}2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1882/08/04/archives/canadas-oldest-freemason-dead.html | title=Canada's Oldest Freemason Dead | work=New York Times | date=4 August 1882 | accessdate=8 September 2013}} 3. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jV15rHknPuoC&pg=PA331 | title=Bishop's University, 1843-1970 | publisher=McGill-Queen's Press | author=Nicholl, Christopher | year=1994 | pages=351–352 | isbn=9780773511767}} 4. ^{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKkRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495 | title=Thirty-eight Years of M'Gill | author=Dawson, William | journal=The Montreal Medical Journal | year=1894 | volume=22 | pages=495}} 5. ^1 {{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1h4HAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YzYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3177,517506 | title=Educational Notes | work=The Toronto Mail | date=29 June 1883 | accessdate=8 September 2013 | pages=6}} 6. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DIPMAe-d4sC&pg=PA49 | title=Respectable Burial: Montreal's Mount Royal Cemetery | publisher=McGill-Queen's Press | author=Young, Brian J. | year=2003 | pages=49 | isbn=9780773570986}} 7 : 1796 births|1882 deaths|People from Montreal|People from Virginia|Canadian philanthropists|Canadian Freemasons|19th-century philanthropists |
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