Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Lumberman Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Joseph Mills Photograph of Joseph Mills (died July 6, 1913). Veteran Decatur lumberman. He bought land at the corner of N. Main and William Streets in 1853 and started a carpenter shop. He was a contractor and building until 1878. During this time he erected,… Tags: biography, carpenter, contractor, D. S. Shellabarger House, Decatur IL., Herald and Review, Home Mfg. Co., James Millikin House, Joseph Mills, Lumberman, Lyon Co., Mills Lumber Co., N. Main St., Old First Methodist Church, Stapp's Chapel, Van Deventer Studio, Vandeventer Studio, W. B. Hary, William St.