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Anson Mills (August 31, 1834 – November 5, 1924) was a United States Army officer, surveyor, inventor, and entrepreneur. Engaged in south Texas as a land surveyor and civil engineer, he both named and laid out the city of El Paso, Texas .
Anson Mills hired Henry C. Trost of the Trost and Trost architectural firm to design and construct the building. Trost was the area's foremost pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete . Built in 1910–1911, the building was only the second concrete-frame skyscraper in the United States, and one of the largest all-concrete buildings.
The general ordered his men to go on half rations. Soon, many of the men resorted to eating mule and horseflesh. A column under Captain Anson Mills was dispatched to Deadwood, a Black Hills mining town, to find supplies, and en route stumbled onto the Miniconjou Sioux village of American Horse.
To accelerate the advance, Crook ordered Captain Anson Mills, commanding six troops of the 3rd Cavalry, to charge the Lakota. Mills' mounted charge unnerved the Indians and they withdrew along the ridge line. Mills quickly re-formed three troops and led another charge, driving the Indians northwest again to the next hill.
A second battalion, Companies E and M of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry, under the command of Captain Anson Mills, was to attack the village simultaneously from the west, and the remaining Cavalry battalion, Company E, of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry, and Company F of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry, under the command of Captain Alexander Moore, was to occupy the ridges ...
Captain Anson Mills. Company E, 3rd Cavalry: First Lieutenant John B. Johnson; Company M, 3rd Cavalry: Captain Anson Mills, First Lieutenant Augustus C. Paul; 2nd Battalion Captain William Hawley Company A, 3rd Cavalry: Captain William Hawley, First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson, Second Lieutenant Charles Morton, Detached as adjutant
The Anson Mills Building, which is considered to be one of the city's first skyscraper, was completed in 1911. [4] This 12-floor, 145-foot (44 m) structure stood as the tallest in El Paso until 1921. [5]
Mills Building may refer to: Mills Building (San Diego) Mills Building (San Francisco) Mills Building (New York City) Anson Mills Building, El Paso, Texas; Mills Building, historic building at South Carolina State Hospital; Mills Building (Longview, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Cowlitz County, Washington