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 MILLAR

MILLEDOLER

MILLAR, Alexander Copeland, minister and educator, was born in McKeesport, Pa., May 17, 1861 ; son of William John and Ellen (Caven) Millar ; grandson of Alexander and Amelia (Coale) Millar and of William and Jane (Langliead) Caven, and a descendant of John Millar, who came from Ireland and settled in Chester, Pa., about 1798. He removed with his parents to Mis- souri in 1867 and was graduated from Central college, Fayette, Mo., A.B., 1885, A.M., 1889. He taught in public schools and in Brookfield acad- emy ; was professor of English and German at Grove's high school, Dallas, Texas, 1885 ; pro- fessor and president of Neosho Collegiate in- stitute, Missouri, 1886 ; and was elected presi- dent of Central Collegiate institute, Altus, Ark., in 1887, which afterward moved to Conway, Ark., and became Hendrix college and over which he retained the presidency. He was married, June 27, 1887, to Elizabeth Frances Har wood. He was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episco- pal church, south, in 1888. He was at the head of the movement for good roads in Arkansas, which resulted in a county road tax in 1889, and he led the movement to secure legislation regulat- ing the bestowal of college charters and degrees. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical conference on foreign missions; presiding elder of Morrilton district, 1899, and became a member of the gen- eral board of education, M. E. Church, south, in 1898. He is the author of Twentieth Century Educational Problems (1901).

MILLARD, Joseph Hopkins, senator, was born in Hamilton, Canada, in April, 1836 ; son of Isaiah K. and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Millard. He removed to Nebraska Territory in 1856, and settled in Omaha. He founded and was president of the Omaha National bank and for many years a director of the Union Pacific railroad. He was elected U. S. senator as successor to J. M. Thurs- ton, whose term expired Mai'ch 3, 1901, Senator Millard's term expiring Marcli 3, 1907.

MILLEDQE, John, senator, was born in Savan- nah, Ga., in 1757 ; son of Capt. John Milledge, who emigrated from England with Oglethorpe in 1733 became prominent in the colony and served in the colonial assembly. The son acquired a good education, studied law in the office of the king's attorney and at the outbreak of the Revo- lutionary war joined the Continental army. He was one of the party that rifled the powder mag- azine at Savannah of the powder subsequently used in the battle of Bunker Hill. He assisted Joseph Habersham in the capture of Gov. James Wright, in his own dwelling, June 17, 1775 ; and upon the capture of Savannah by the British, and the escape of Governor Wright, Milledge fled to South Carolina, where he was taken prisoner by a party of patriots and but for

the timely interference of an officer to whom he was known, would have been hanged as a spy. He participated in the assaults upon Savannah and Augusta. Governor Howley appointed him attorney-general of the colony in 1780 and he assisted the governor in removing the archives out of the colony for safety. He was a repre.sentati ve in the state legislature after the reorganization of the state government, for several years, and a representative in the 2d, 4th, 5th and 7th con- gresses, 1792-93, 1795-99 and 1801-03. He helped in 1795 in exjKJsing the " Yazoo fraud," and was Georgia commissioner with James Jackson and Abraham Baldwin to negotiate with the three U. S. commissioners the treaty by which the owners of the land were compensated by the United States, and the Mississippi territory be- came the property of the Federal government. He was governor of Georgia, 1803-06 ; U. S. senator as successor to James Jackson, deceased, 1806-07,and was re-elected in 1807 for a full term, but resigned in 1809 and was succeeded by Charles Tait. He was one of the founders of the University of Georgia and in 1801 gave to the trustees for the benefit of the institution 630 acres of land upon which the university buildings were situated and the city of Athens was built. The original intention of the legislature was to erect buildings for the university at Louisville, in Jefferson county, but Milledge's donation changed the plan. Milledgeville, the state capital from 1807 to 1868, was named in his honor. He was a trus- tee of the University of Georgia, 1800-06. He died at his home, near Augusta, Ga., Feb. 9, 1818. MILLEDOLER, Philip, educator, was born in Rhinebeck, N.Y.,Sept. 22, 1775 ; son of John and Anna Milledoler, who emigrated from Geneva, Switzerland, in 1751. He was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1793, A.M., 1797 ; and was ordained by the synod of the German Re-

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formed church. May 17, 1794. He was pastor of the German Reformed church on Nassau street, New York city, 1794-1800 ; of the Third Presby- terian church of Philadelphia, 1800-04 ; of the