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 MACMILLAN

MCMILLAN

Botanique de France ; the Society for Plant Morphology ; the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; and several other learned societies. He was married Aug. 6, 1891, to Maud Sanborn. He is the author of : Metaspernice of the Minnesota Valley (1892); Vegetation Alongshore at Lake of the Woods (1897); and Minnesota Plant Life (1899).

MACMILLAN, Qeorge Whitefield, educator, was born in York county, Pa., Aug. 19, 1827. He attended the West Alexander academy and the College of New Jersey, and was graduated from Princeton Theological seminary in 1854. He was ordained by the presbytery of Albany, Nov. 17, 1857, and was pastor at Prinoetown, N.Y., 1857- 63. He was married in 1858 to Nancie Josinah MacMillan. He was stated supply at Lithopolis, Ohio. 1863-66 ; pastor at Brunswick, 111., 1866-69; supply at Butler, Mo., 1870-73 ; and pastor at Perrineville, N.J., 1873-88. He was elected pres- ident of Riclimond college, Ohio, in 1888. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Richmond college in 1888 and the degree of Ph.D. by the College of New Jersey the same year. He is the author of : Coming Millennium ; Creation and Development ; Moral Science^ and contriWutions to periodical literature.

MacMILLAN, James, senator, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, May 12, 1838, of Scotch parents. His father, William MacMillan, was prominent in railroad and business circles. In 1855 he re- moved to Detroit, Mfch. , where he engaged in the

hardware business. Through his father's influence he became purchasing agent of the Detroit and Mil- waukee railroad. He was married in 1860 to Mary Wetmore of Detroit. In 1863 he was one of the organ- izers of the Michi- gan Car company, of which corporation,

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^^h^^^^^/K/Ha^Z^ e'lterprises in various ^^ cities, he had the

general direction. He built, an(i until entering the senate, was president of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic railroad ; and he became interested in ship-building and lake transportation, and was elected president of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company. In 1886 he succeeded Zach- ariah Chandler as chairman of the Michigan Republican state central committee, and from that date was actively identified with politics. In 1889 he was elected to the U.S. senate, and was

re-elected in 1895 and 1901. He became chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia, and a member of several important committees. He was elected president of Grace hospital, Detroit, of which he was a founder and to which he largely contributed, and a trustee of the De- troit Museum of Art. He presented a Shakspere library and a building for the use of Presby- terian students, to the University of Michigan ; a chemical laboratory to Albion college, an ento- mological collection to the State Agricultural college and a dormitory to Mary Allen seminary, Crockett, Texas. He died at Manchester-by-the- sea, Mass., Aug. 10, 1902, leaving a widow, three sons and one daughter.

McMillan, James Winning, soldier, was born in Clark county, Ky., April 28, 1825 ; son of Rob- ert and Nancy (Winning) McMillan and grandson of Col. Robert McMillan, an officer on the staff of General Washington during the Revolution. He removed to Illinois ; served as a soldier in the war with Mexico, 1846-47. He was married in 1860 to Minerva Foote of Bedford, Ind. Upon the outbreak of the civil war he was commissioned colonel of the 21st Indiana volunteers by Pres- ident Lincoln, and he engaged w^ith the army under Gen. B. F. Butler, which co-operated with the naval force under Farragut in the opening of the Mississippi, and he captured the Confederate blockade-runner Fox, one of the richest prixes of the war. He was brevetted major-general in March, 1864, and in April, 1864, commanded the 2d brigade, 19th army corps, in the Red River campaign. When General Franklin was wounded and General Emory assumed command of the corps. General McMillan assumed command of the 1st division, which at Sabine's Cross Roads held the ground, covered the retreat of Banks's army, and saved it from destruction. General McMil- lan was appointed a member of the board of review of the U.S. pension office.

McMillan, John, educator, was born in Fagg's Manor, Pa., Nov. 11, 1752. He was prepared for college by Dr. Samuel Blair at Fagg's Manor academy, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, then Nassau Hall, in 1772, and was licensed to preach in 1774. He was a missionary in Maryland, western Virginia and western Penn- sylvania, and in 1775 organized churches at Pigeon Creek and at Cliartiers, Pa., and was ordained by the Presbytery of Donegal in 1776. He soon after married, built a single-room log cabin and in it established a Latin school and theological seminary, which was transferred to Canonsburg academy in 1791, and from which were sent out nearly one hundred young men, many of whom became distinguished preachers. The school developed into Jefferson college, Jan. 15, 1802, and he was appointed by the legislature