Simeon Mills

1810 - Jun 1, 1895

Madison's 4^th and 7^th Village President 1851, 1854

Mills first Madison home was on the square at the corner of Monona Avenue & West Main Street.

Later he owned extensive lands on the northeast shore of Lake Monona; his magnificent mansion, Park Place still stands. He eventually sold it and moved back downtown because his wife Maria didn't like living so far from town.

Mills last home on Monona Avenue

Interred at Forest Hill Cemetery

Mills was one of the men who drafted the city charter.

Reached Madison on June 10, 1837, only hours after the workers who would build Madison’s first capitol building, and stayed the rest of his life

Mills was Madison's first entrepreneur. The day of his arrival he contracted with some of the workers to build him a store, then headed to Galena to acquire goods to fill it

Appointed the first justice of the peace in 1837, he was elected county commissioner in 1839 and later clerk of court

Mills introduced the bill that became the charter of the UW; he was a member of the first board of regents, purchasing the site of the university and supervising the erection of its first building, North Hall.

He was a trustee for the State Hospital for the Insane, a paymaster general during the Civil War, a founder of the Wisconsin Argus newspaper in 1844, and a director of the Madison & Beloit Railroad and the Madison & Portage Railroad.

He built a stone business block on King Street in 1855.