Rob Deland ...

> I have a photocopy of the sheet music ("Whistling Rufus") with an
> interesting introduction printed above the title; it's quaint, so I'll
> copy it here.  I wonder if Mills wrote it or if the publisher
> came up with it.

   I thought Mills ("Kerry") was the same as the publisher: Mills
(F.A.).  He also composed some religious music under the name FA Mills,
but had another publisher issue it.

   BTW, most reference books state that Mills was the head of the
violin department at Univ. of Michigan.  I once checked this out &
found that the university did not have a music department in the 1890s,
& Mills is not found on any of the staff listings.  He *did* teach
violin at a nearby music school -- the University Music School -- but
this was a separate institution without any official connection to the
Univ. of Michigan.

    Ed Berlin