We are very happy to report that we still have the entire original PATENT files of the violano for the company and can share these if a reader is researching a certain item. The two brothers had a number of patents to their name. In 1929, at age57, Herbert Mills died leaving a fortune to his wife and eight children. The Mills brothers were raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and continued to live in that area until the mid 1930s. His younger brother, Hayden ('Bill') Mills, was born two years later in about 1902. In about 1900, Herbert Mills, the third son of Herbert Stephen Mills was born. Mills, Herbert's second son, was born circa 1898. Mills, the first of Herbert Mills' sons, was born. Mills, the youngest of Mortimer Mill's children was born. One son, Herbert Stephen Mills, was born in 1872 when his father was about 27. By the late 1930s, vending machines were being installed by Mills Automatic Merchandising Corporation of New York.įamily The origins of the business lie with Mortimer Birdsul Mills, who founded the company in the 1880’s and went on to produce coin operated machines. The slot machine division was then owned by Bell-O-Matic Corporation. By 1944 the name of the company had changed to Mills Industries, Incorporated.
