Mills, Frederick Allen

Frederick Allen Mills Publisher and composer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1, 1869; Hawthorne, California, December 5, 1948. Mills wrote under the name of Kerry Mills . He composed cakewalks as “Kerry” (and published them as “F. A.”) through the 1890s, concentrating almost exclusively on this new, slightly syncopated dance craze. Popularized by the San Francisco team of Williams and Walker on the New York stage, and by Genaro and Bailey in vaudeville , Kerry Mills turned out a string of…