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Weymer Jay Mills

American, 1880 - 1938

BiographyWeymer Jay Mills was born in 1880 in Jersey City, NJ. He was the son of Mortimer Mills (b. 1847) and Lillie Wilcox Mills, the brother of Hazel Abercrombie Mills, and a descendant of Revolutionary War era poet Philip Freneau. He lived in Jersey City and New York City. He wrote a number of magazine articles and books, including Historical Houses of New Jersey, Through the Gates of Old Romance, and Caroline of Courtlandt Street. He edited the 1903 publication, Glimpses of Colonial Society and the Life at Princeton College, 1766-1773. He wrote the introduction to Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora by Philip Freneau, which was published in 1889. For a brief time, he was also an antique dealer in London, England, who specialized in miniatures. He died in Merano, Italy in 1938.
https://jerseyhistory.org/guide-to-the-weymer-j-mills-collection-1899-1923/; accesssed 5/13/2021
NYTimes obituary says he died in Munich Germany, May 26, 1938

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