Susan Tolman Mills

In October of that year they departed to teach in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), on an assignment from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Mrs. Mills contracted amoebic dysentery during their tour abroad, and was in distinctly ill health by the time they returned to the United States.

[2] In 1860 the couple traveled to Honolulu where Cyrus Mills became president of Oahu College (now known as Punahou School).

Susan served as a teacher at the school, instructing in geography, geology, chemistry, and botany.

[2] Mills College was initially founded as the Young Ladies Seminary at Benicia in 1852.