Millard Enos Mix ¹

   Another name for Millard was Millard Enos (M.E.)

   General Notes:

1860 census of Osceola Township, Stark Co., Illinois 1484/1451 Enos Mix age 33, Male born Canada East Hannah Mix age 30, female born Canada East Enos M. Mix age 9, male, born Canada East *** Samuel P. Mix age 7, male born Canada East Marvin W. Mix age 4 male, born Illinois Hannah Page age 66, female, widow, born New Hampshire James Campbell age 30, male farmer, born Indiana Nancy Campbell age 24, female, born Ohio Leonard Campbel age 7, male, born Iowa Benjamin Campbell age 6, male, born Iowa Thomas Campbel age 4, male born Iowa Catharine Campbell age 2, female, born Illinois

I do not know who the Campbell family is.


A page from the MIX Memorial in Decatur County, Kansas History Book page 455

Millard Enos Mix was born to Enos and Hannah (Page) Mix 24 August 1851 in Lower Canada. The Mix Family was of English ancestry having settled around New Haven, Conn. in early Colonial Times. Thomas Mix arrived from London as early as 1643. Connecticut and New Hampshire were the early settlement areas of Hannah's families, the Pages and Libbeys. John Page and John Libbey, the earlies emigrants arrived in Scarsbourough, Maine in the 1640's before moving on toNew Hampshire. The families remained there until after the Revolutionary War when, after shedding their blood to free their new country from the British rule, they relinquished their freedom to emigrate to the fertile, open lands of Lower Canada just north of Vermont border, east of Lake Memphremagog. Enos Mix and his family reentered the Untied States with three Brothers, Joh, Samuel, and Eli, in 1854, settling in Stark County, Illinois and engaging in farming. Millard Enos, laster known as M.E. traveled all over the midwest in his younger days until he decided Western Kansas was the place to settle. He homesteaded in Decatur County just west of Oberlin, in 1879, with is wife Mary McPeak. This farm is still operated by the family, over a hundred years later. M.E. was soon engaged in various enterprises in Oberlin including a billiard parlor and a freightline from Buffalo Park Station. He is said to have brought the first tombstone to town, hauled the press and type for the Oberlin Herald, and assisted in settling them up and helping get out th first issue of the paper in 1879. Later, he was associated with Sidney Morrish and helped put up the first windmill tower in town. The cattle business soon attracted him. He was to ship the first carload of cattle from Oberlin when the B&M R.R. came. Drifting into feeding cattle and hogs, the Daily Drover's Telegram quotes "For many years he fed more cattle and hogs than any other man in Decatur County, his shipments of cattle and hogs, coming in trainload comsignments." In the early 1890'3, M.E. became interested in the First National Bank in Oberlin and was elected it's President in 1896, an office he retained until 1915, during which time it became nationalized and changed it's name to Farmer's National Bank. Mr. Mix was the firest president of the Decatur County Fair Association but always favored exhibition of livestock above the racing and amusements. He was a member of the Mountain Slope Lodge A.F.& A.M., joining in 1903. He died 17 January 1927 following a short illness. "From the time of his coming to Oberlin in 1879 until he gave up active work, Mr. Mix was one of the leaders among Oberlin's businessmen and also very successful financially." from the Oberlin Herald Obituary. "He was of kind disposition, although he spoke in a gruff tone of voice. Beneath his coat beat a warm heart, a heart that often went out in sympathy to those about him. Like a tru pioneer that he was, he could always be counted to do his part toward the cause that was worthy and for the benefit of the community." Norton Daily Telegram. Although Mr. Mix spent the last few years of his life traveling extensively, spending winters in California and taking in most World Fairs and visiting almost every corner of the Untied States, he never lost intrest in Oberlin and always considered it his Home Tow, he helped to build it and during his lifetime,never failed to stand up and be counted for the town. M.E. Mix and Elizabeth Mead were married on 17 October 1888 in Beloit, Kansas, his first wife, Mary having died a few years earlier. Elizabeth, daughter of John and Edna Porter nee Hodges Mead was born in Arkansas 1861 while her parents were enroute to the home of relatives in Iowa, from the war-stricken South, the father being a northern sympathizer who later joined the Union Army. The Hodges and Mead families were long time residents of Eastern Tennessee, having settled there in the early 1790's, following the Revolutionary War. After the Civil War, Elizabeth and her family settled on a farm near the city of Beloit., where Elizabeth taught school nine years and helped the Mitchell County Superintendent establish the country shcool grading systerm, before her marriage. Mrs. Mix passed away 1 April 1940 at Oberlin. She was a woman of culture and refinement always eager to assist in the building of better things for the community. She took an active part in helping establish the public library in Oberlin, and was a charter member of Monday Evening Club, was Vice President of District Federation of 'Women's Clubs, Past Marton of Eastern Star. One daughter, Edna was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mix on October 17, 1890 at Oberlin. Edna married Floyd Lee Lotker 19 December 1917.

   Marriage Information:

Millard married Mary McPeak.

   Marriage Information:

Millard also married Elizabeth Orlena Meed on October 17, 1888 in Beloit, Kansas ¹⁰. (Elizabeth Orlena Meed was born in 1860 and died on April 1, 1940 in Oberlin, Kansas.)