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Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago - 1895

              [369-370]

              JOHN McMILLAN, a merchant of Dollarville, Michigan, was one
           of the first men to engage in business in this village. As one
           of its leading business men and representative citizens and as a
           man who has for years been prominently identified with its pub-
           lic affairs, it is eminently fitting that some personal mention
           be accorded him in this work.
              JOHN McMILLAN was born in Simcoe county, Ontario, Canada,
           January 8, 1848. He was brought up on a farm, performed the
           usual routine duties of the average farmer boy in the '50s, and
           secured a limited education in the district school adjacent to
           his home. At the age of seventeen he began his term of service
           as a blacksmith apprentice in the shop of WILLIAM CALDWELL, of
           Barry, Simcoe county. He did journeyman work in several towns in
           that county, and lastly, and before coming to Luce county, was
           in the employ of the H. H. Cook Lumber Company, later the
           British Canadian Lumber Company, for eight years. August 1,
	   1882, he came to Dollarville, Michigan, as blacksmith for the
	   Dollarville Company, and in this capacity he remained until
	   August, 1894, when he laid down his hammer and went i1 to his
	   store as sole proprietor, this store having been a partnership
	   affair from its inception some months before until the time he
	   took full possession. During his more than a dozen years of
	   residence at this place he has made a wide acquaintance, and in
	   his present business he is enjoying the success he so justly
	   merits. A man of sterling integrity, MR. McMILLAN was early
           looked up to as a leader in the community and has been chosen to
           fill various positions of trust and importance. He is now
           serving as Justice of the Peace for his township, has been
           Moderator of the Board of Education for ten years, and is now
           Treasurer of the township school fund.
              MR. McMILLAN'S parents, DUNCAN and MARGIRET(McKERROLL)
           McMILLAN, both natives of Argyleshire, Scotland, crossed the
           Atlantic in 1828 and cast their lot with the settlers of Simcoe
           county, Canada, where he is still living, having reached the
           extreme old age of eighty-nine years. The subject of our sketch
           is the youngest of their eight children, five of whom are
           living, viz.: MARIAN, wife of JAMES EMMS; MARGARET, widow of
           NIEL McMILLAN; Christina, wife of PETER WIGGINS, - all in Simcoe
           county; ARCHIE, of Idaho; and JOHN, the gentleman with whose
           name we began this sketch. JOHN McMILLAN married, in his native
           county, June 17, 1872, CATHERINE Ann McDONALD, a daughter of
           HUGH McDONALD. MR. McDONALD is of'Scotch lineage and a tiller of
           the soil. The children composing Mr. and Mrs. McMILLAN'S family
           are JOHN A., aged twenty-one years; DUNCAN A., eighteen; HUGH
           H., sixteen; and MAGGIE, thirteen.
              Of a genial and social nature, Mr. McMILLAN has identified
           himself with fraternal organizations and has attained prominence
	   therein. He is District Deputy in the I. O. O. F., and Court
	   Deputy, High Chief Ranger for Court 1285, Independent Order of
	   Foresters,

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