A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 172

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612


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His son, Jonathan, was with him and conducted himself with great bravery, although a lad of only fifteen years. This is on the tombstone of Capt. Timothy Barron, Jr. at Bath, N. H. "This stone is placed here by Timothy Barron, of Bath, in memory of his grandsire Capt. Timothy Barron who died Nov. 7, 1797 in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He was one of the first settlers of this town, and the first person interred in this burying ground. He was seized and possessed of the land he was buried on and there is never to be any conveyance from him or his heirs."


JESSE YOUNG HURD, (No. 3 above) born near Lisbon, N. H., in 1818, came to Ohio with his father's family in 1820. He resided at the different fur- naces in Scioto county. He married a Miss Rogers of Bloom Furnace. His eld- est child was James Murfin Hurd, born August 31, 1843, at Bloom Furnace. He was married to Mary Frances Edmunds, Dec. 8, 1877, at Rahway, N. J. He died July 9, 1891, at Jersey City. N. J. His wife was born March 22, 1852, and died at the New Jersey State Hospital, Mont Plains, N. J., July 29, 1893, of hemmor- rhage,


Their children were Arthur Lontrel, born March 18, 1880. He attended school at Jersey City, removed to Milwaukee in 1892, and attended school at Jersey City, removed to Milwaukee in 1892, and attended schools there and at the Military Academy at Fairibault, Minn. He clerked five years in Milwaukee for the T. G. Chapman Co. and worked for the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul R. R. and the Wisconsin Building & Loan Association. In 1899, he went to Chicago and was employed there till April, 1900, when he shipped in the Navy for four years. He is now on the steamship Yorktown and when last heard from was at Yokohama, Japan.


James Murfin Hurd's second son was Victor, born Nov. 5, 1882. He at- tended the public schools in Jersey City. He moved to Milwaukee in 1892 and finished school there. He is traveling for C. M. Paine of Milwaukee, Wis.


Irving Hurd, the third son of James Murfin Hurd, was born June 18, 1884. He attended school in Jersey City, N. J., till 1892, and then at Milwaukee, Wis. He is stenographer for the H. W. Johns' Manville Co., Milwaukee, Wis.


Another son, Lon R. Hurd, married Fannie Simpson, of Milwaukee, Wis. They had four children, of whom Chester and Edward are deceased. Dorothy and Rodger reside at West Superior, Wis.


Capt. Hurd had three other children, but they are all deceased. In 1848 he made Portsmouth his home and became a master on Steamboats. He fol- lowed the river, usually the Mississippi. He died in Portsmouth, in October, 1867, having contracted the yellow fever while on a trip there to recover the remains of his son, Arthur, who had died at Millikin's Bend, Miss., of the same disease.


The King Family.


1. JOHN KING came from County Kent, England, soon after the year 1700, to America, and settled at Boston.


2. His son RICHARD was a Captain under Governor Shirley, in the spring of 1745, in the expedition against Cape Breton. Richard went to Louis- burg and was present at the capture of that fortress and the French army there. Richard King settled in Scarboro, Maine, then a province of Massa- chusetts, and married Isabella Bragdon, of York, Maine.


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3. Their oldest child was RUFUS KING, who was born at Scarboro, Maine, March 4, 1755. He attended school at Byfield Academy, Newburyport, Massachusetts, at the age of twelve. At eighteen he entered Harvard College, in August, 1773. He graduated in 1777, and went to Newburyport to study law under Theophilus Parsons. In 1778, he became Aide-de-Camp, with rank of Ma- jor, to General Glover, in General Sullivan's expedition to retake Rhode Island from the British. His service was short and in September, 1778, he was dis- charged with the thanks of General Sullivan, the Commander-in-Chief, the ex- pedition being over and the volunteer part of the army, to which Major King belonged, being disbanded. This brief service was the only military connection of Rufus King with the Revolution. He served his country continuously in other occupations, and died in New York, April 29, 1827.


4. EDWARD KING, the fourth son of Rufus and Mary Alsop King was born in New York, March 13, 1795. He was educated in that city and read law for two years at Mr. Reeves' Law School at Litchfield, Connecticut. He wished to practice in one of the western states, and his father thought it wise that he should pass the last years study in the state in which he proposed to live (Ohio) and so familiarize himself with the modes of practice and become ac- quainted with the members of the Bar. In May, 1815, Rufus King wrote to Gov. Thomas Worthington, at Chillicothe, asking him to assist in arranging for Edward King's studies and residence in that city and to present him to those who could help him in his profession and to introduce him to social intercourse with their families. This, Governor Worthington promptly agreed to do. Ed- ward left New York for Ohio in October, 1815, and settled at Chillicothe. See his sketch p. 283.


The Lawson Family.


1. The first one of whom we have any account was THOMAS LAWSON, a young man, born and reared in England. He had an excellent education and was of a good family. He accepted the position as steward for an Irish gentle- man named Farley and went to Ireland to fulfill the duties of the position. Mr. Farley had a handsome and attractive daughter Hannah and young Thomas Lawson discovered the fact and fell in love with her. She appeared to recipro- cate. The parent Farley discovered the situation and at once assumed the role of an indignant father. Young Thomas Lawson eloped with the girl, married her and took ship to America. He was a fine Latin scholar and opened a Latin school in Philadelphia and taught there. He afterward went to York, Penn- sylvania and seems to have made money there. He had a son Thomas, who be- came the ancestor of all the Portsmouth Lawsons and of the Greenup county, Kentucky Lawsons. Tradition has it that the Irish gentleman disinherited his daughter for her conduct in eloping with Thomas Lawson and left what he intended for her to a bachelor brother. This brother decided to give his prop- erty to his neice, but could not find her, and for that reason devised the prop- erty elsewhere.


2. THOMAS, the son of the Emigrant Thomas was born in 1718 and died October 20, 1795. aged seventy-seven years. He is buried at Alaska in Mineral county. West Virginia. He was brought up at York Pennsylvania. He bought large quantities of land in Hampshire county, Virginia and sent his sons there to locate on it. The second Thomas Lawson was in the Revolutionary War and his record will be found under the title "Revolutionary Soldiers." The follow- ing are the children of the second Thomas Lawson, Revolutionary Soldier: (1) William, b. December, 1761. (2) Jacob, b. November, 1763. (3) Catharine. (4) Mary, b. December 21, 1766; m. a Johnson in W. Va. (5) Jane, b. March 31, 1767; m. a Johnson of Va. also. (6) Anna, b. April 14, 1769; m. Samuel Walker of Ky. (7) James, b. March 13. 1770. (8) Elizabeth, b. February 21. 1771; m. a Conner in W. Va. (9) Sarah b. April 26, 1773, m. a Williams in W. Va. (10) Hannah, b. August 19, 1775; m. a McQuillin, in W. Va. (11) Mar- garet b. May 7, 1777; m. a Burton, of Ky. (12) Thomas, b. April 25, 1779; m. Barbara Earsom. (13) John, b. May 7, 1781. (14) Fannie or Frances, m. a Blue, of W. Va.


3. JOHN married Hannah Blue in Hampshire county, in 1800, and had two children. A daughter Hannah married Moses Mackoy of Greenup county,


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Kentucky. The other child died in infancy. The first wife died soon after the birth of her second child and he married Catharine Taylor in Hampshire coun- ty, Virginia, in 1806. The children of John Lawson's second marriage were: (1) Elizabeth, b. January 20, 1809, m. William Bryson. (2) Mary, b. September 26, 1812, m. Romulus Calver. (3) Jane, b. June 1, 1815, m. Holliday Waring. (4) John Taylor, b. June 13, 1818. (5) Thomas, b. September 5, 1820. (6) Susannah, b. January 16, 1823. (7) William, b. May 10, 1825. (8) Catharine, b. May 24, 1828, m. Robert Johnson.


4. The family of ELIZABETH and William Bryson were: (1) Lawson and (2) James of Mackoy, Kentucky. (3) Catharine married William With- row. (4) William lives in Sanger, Colorado. (5) Jane Elizabeth, wife of George N. Biggs of Huntington, West Virginia.


The account of William Lawson, the eldest son of Thomas Lawson, the Revolutionary Soldier will be found under this name in the Pioneer Sketches in this work. Thomas Lawson, his brother, was the third settler in Kentucky opposite the inouth of Munn's Run in Ohio. James another brother of William settled in Kentucky adjoining Thomas. One sister married Samuel Walker of Kentucky and another a Burton. Burton has two children Joshua and Han- nah, who married Hezekiah Morton.


The Leete Family


can be traced to Gerard Leete who held lands in Morden, Cambridgeshire, in 1209. The family coat of arms is: argent, on a fesse, gules, between two rolls of matches, sable, fired proper, a martlet; or, crest on a ducal coronet, or, an antique lamp, or, fired proper.


1. THOMAS LEETE of Ockington, Cambridgeshire, England, married Maria Slade, of Rushton, Northamptonshire, daughter of Edward Slade. He named two of his sons John. The eldest was John of Dodington, the father of Governor William.


2. JOHN LEETE of Dodington was a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Desiring to provide for his son, William, he was bred to the law and se- cured his appointment as Clerk in the Bishop's Court at Cambridge where the Puritans were tried for ecclesiastic offences. William Leete listened to the op- pressions and cruelties practiced upon them until he was converted a Puritan to the disgust of his family.


3. GOVERNOR WILLIAM LEETE b. 1612, m. in England, in 1638, to Anne Payne, daughter of Rev. John Payne, of Southhoe. He emigrated to New England and located in New Haven, July 10, 1639. He was a deputy to the General Court from 1643 to 1650. He was magistrate of the town from 1651 to 1658, and Deputy Governor of New Haven from 1658 until 1664 when New Haven was united to Connecticut. From 1664 to 1669 he was assistant of ' Connecticut. From 1669 to 1676 he was Deputy Governor to the Connecticut Colony. In 1676 he was chosen Governor, which position he retained by con- tinuous re-election until his death in 1683. When elected Governor of Con- necticut, he removed to Hartford and died and was buried there. His tomb was lost till 1830 when it was discovered and a new monument erected. He was noted for his integrity and wisdom. He always governed well. He was a marrying man and married three times in the course of his life. He had nine children by his first marriage. His second and third wives were widows when he married them. He was the first Puritan in the family. He died April 16, 1683.


4. ANDREW LEETE, son of Governor Leete, was b. in 1643. He mar- ried Elizabeth Jordan June 1, 1669. In 1677 he became Colonial Governor of Connecticut and was re-elected annually until his death. He d. October 31, 1702 and his wife d. March 4, 1701. He secreted the charter of the colony when it was sought to destroy it.


5. WILLIAM LEETE, son of Governor Andrew Leete, b. March 24, 1671 and d. January 26, 1736, aged sixty-five, m. Hannah Stone, daughter of William Stone, of Guilford. She was born July 26, 1678.


6. SOLOMON LEETE, son of the second William Leete, was b. in Sep- tember, 1722, m. Zipporah Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone and Mercy Rowlee, of Guilford. She died June 25, 1800, aged eighty. He died, aged eighty-one, September 6, 1803.


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7. SOLOMON LEETE, son of the above, was b. December 3, 1746, m. Hannah Norton, daughter of Daniel Norton and Sarah Bradley, of Guilford. They removed to Granville, New York and to Tioga county, Pa. He died in 1822, and she died September 22, 1820.


8. URIAH LEETE, son of Solomon, m. in 1815, Mary Ives, daughter of Timothy Ives, of Cambridge, Mass. He had the following children: Betsey Emily, b. February 16, 1816, m. Samuel Chapman, father of Hon. Horace Leete Chapman. She resides in Jackson, Ohio. Horace, b. May 25, 1818, has a sketch herein; Ralph, b. January 12, 1823, m. Harriet E. Hand, has a sketch herein; Timothy J., b. February 11, 1829; Sarah, b. April 11, 1833, m. Walter C. Hood; John R., b. February 22, 1838.


[The above was taken from a book entitled, "The Family of William Leete, one of the first settlers of Guilford Connecticut, and Governor of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies." Compiled by Edward L. Leete, Guilford, Connecticut. New Haven. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers. 1884.]


The Lummis Family


came from Lancashire, England in 1690, landing near the Cape of Delaware, settled near Cape May afterwards, and then moved to Cumberland county, New Jersey.


MINOAH LUMMIS was born in 1712, in Cumberland county, N. J., and lived near Cape May. He had four sons, one of whom,


1. PARSONS L., was b. in 1740, and d. at seventy-eight years of age. This one was a private in Captain Richard Howell's Company, 2nd New Jersey Regiment, Revolutionary War. He had three children: Hannah, James and George. His son


2. JAMES was born in 1784 in Cumberland county, N. J., married Eliz- abeth Woods in 1810, and died in 1860. They had eight children:


3. JOHN WOODS was the oldest. He was born in 1813, in New Jersey, and came to Ohio and married Elizabeth Chaffin, February 4, 1849. Their oldest child,


4. SARAH, now the wife of Simeon E. Evans of Jackson, Ohio, was born March 22, 1851. They have two children living: Arthur L., and John Er- nest. [John Wood Lummis and his sons, Shadrach Chaffin and Jacob Wood all have sketches herein.]


The McFarland Family


is traced as far back as the year 1150. Gilchrist, ancestor to the Laird Mac- Farlane, obtained by grant of his brother Maldwin, Third Earl of Lenox, large landed estates of Arrochar and four islands in Lake Lochlomond in the High- lands of Scotland, the charter for which is confirmed in the records of the privy seal. These estates remained in the possession of the clan MacFarlane for six hundred years.


Maldwin's son and successor was Partholin, (Gaelic for Bartholomew)- which came to be written Pharlan and Pharlane-(Mac., that is, the son of)- MacPharlan, and MacPharlane, which became MacFarlan or McFarlane, and was adopted as the patronymical surname of the clan. The name became Mc- Farland in the Seventeenth Century by the emigration of some of the Scotch to the north of Ireland, where the pronunciation of MacFarlane became gradual- ly changed to McFarland.


The Highland chiefs of the clan bore an active part in the border wars between England and Scotland. Malcolm, Fifth Earl of Lenox supported by his chiefs of his clan, fought for Robert Bruce at the battle of Hallidon Hill, and lost his life in defense of his friend and companion.


Robert Bruce was crowned at Scone, Scotland, March 27, 1306. Miss Em- ma Bell, of Portsmouth, Ohio, is a lineal descendant of Bruce, and has in her possession a piece of heavy silk, part of which formed a dress worn at the cor- onation of Bruce, by Mrs. Heslet, one of Miss Bell's ancestors. A large silver spoon, once belonging to Bruce, is also owned by a brother of Miss Bell.


Sir John MacFarlane was knighted the evening before the battle of Flodden, and lost his life in that conflict. Andrew MacFarlane, with 500 of his clan opposed Queen Mary's forces at Longside, and was victorious, for


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which the crest of the clan was conferred upon him on the evening of the battle. The armorial bearings of the MacFarlane clan are sculptured upon the marble tomb of Margaret Douglas Stuart, Countess of Lenox, in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, bearing the inscription: "Countess of Lenox, 1577." The tomb was erected by King James VI. grandson of the countess. She was the mother of Lord Darnley, who married Queen Mary of Scotland.


The Countess of Lenox was married to Mathew Stuart, Eleventh Earl of Lenox, a Scotch noble of the clan MacFarlane, June 15, 1544, and by this alli- ance became the foundress of the English royal family of Stuart. She was a cousin of Queen Mary of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth of England, and a niece of King Henry VIII.


The MacHoy Family.


The Mackoy family is of Scotch extraction, being descended most probably from the Highland Clan Mackay, which occupied the extreme North of Scot- land, and which is said to have had a fighting force at one time of four thous- and men at arms.


1. JAMES MACKOY, the first of the name in this country, emigrated to Virginia after the unsuccessful insurrection of the Earl of Mar and settled in King William county, with his widowed mother and two sisters some time prior to 1718. He became a farmer and later, in 1718, married Sarah Gresham, the daughter of Charles and Anna (Lawrence) Gresham, of King and Queen County. Mrs. Gresham was a daughter of John Lawrence and his wife, Mary Townley, of England. The issue of this marriage was two sons, James and John, and two daughters, who married brothers by the name of Mason.


2. JOHN MACKOY, son of James, was born in 1722, and resided in King William County, Virginia, as a farmer. In 1760, he married Martha, daughter of Benjamin Roberts (she was born 1740; died February 22, 1800) and shortly before the Revolution moved with her and his family to the state of Georgia. In November, 1774, he died and his widow returned to Virginia with her chil- dren, settling in Campbell county, on the Little Falling river some thirty miles east of Lynchburg, Virginia. where her five children grew to maturity. The youngest of these children was John, born December 25, 1772.


3. JOHN MACKOY, the second, born December 25, 1772, married, January 29, 1795, Lavinia Fuqua, daughter of Captain Moses and Judith ( Woodson) Fuqua, of Charlotte county, Virginia. He lived in Campbell county, Virginia, until 1799, when he emigrated westward, settling for a while on the Kanawha river. In 1801, he moved further west and located on a farm in Greenup county, Kentucky, on the bank of the Ohio river about ten miles below the town of Greenup. Here he resided until his death September 28, 1843, rearing a large family of ten children. Of these, John, the fourth child, was born September 8. 1802.


4. JOHN MACKOY, the third, born September 8, 1802, lived in Greenun county, until 1829, starting in life as a clerk in the iron business. In that year he left home and went first to Boone and Grant counties, Kentucky. The year following he located in Covington, Kentucky, and resided there until his death, April 6, 1882, becoming a successful merchant of the place and a citizen promi- nent in everything pertaining to the advancement and development of the com- ยท munity. He was a member of the first city council, serving ten years; he aided in building the Covington and Lexington turnpike and was a director of the company from 1840 to his death. He was Deputy Clerk of both the Circuit and County courts from 1840 to 1854; he was a director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky, from 1843 to his death, and for more than thirty years was an elder in the First Presbyterian church. On October 25, 1838, he was married to Eliz- abeth Gravit Hardia, daughter of William Hardia, formerly of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Elizabeth, his wife, (nee Timberlake) and by her had seven chil- dren. The oldest child was William Hardia Mackoy, born November 20, 1839.


5. WILLIAM HARDIA MACKOY, of Covington, Kentucky, was born in that town November 20, 1839. He was educated in the private schools of Cov- ington, and at the University of Virginia, from which he graduated with the de- gree of Master of Arts. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1866, since which time he has been actively engaged in his profession in the states of Ohio and Kentucky. Having his office in Ohio, his practice is about equally di-


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vided between the two states. In 1901, he was elected the first President of the Kentucky State Bar Association. In 1890 and 1891, he was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention, and as such served on the Committees on Corporations and Municipalities, drafting the articles of the Constitution relating to those subjects. Mr. Mackoy was married November 18, 1868, to Margaret Chambers Brent, of Paris, Kentucky, daughter of Hugh Innes Brent and his wife, Margaret, nee Chambers. He has two children now living, Harry Brent Mackoy and Elizabeth Cary Mackoy.


6. HARRY BRENT MACKOY, of Covington, Kentucky, was born July 18, 1874. He received his education in the private schools of Covington, and af- terwards at the University of Virginia, and at Yale. He graduated from the latter institution in 1894, and then entered the Law School of the Cincinnati College, from which he received his degree in 1897. He was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio in May, 1897, and in Kentucky the following June. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in both states. His office is in Cincinnati, but he resides in Covington. He is unmarried.


The Millar Family.


JOHN WILLIAM MILLAR was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, October 31, 1781. He was brought up to the trade of a tanner. He was of an adventurous spirit and he and his two brothers, Abram and Cornelius Elton, determined to try their fortunes in the northwest territory. Their German an- cestors had settled in the valley of Virginia in 1730. John William's father was William Millar, born November 2, 1744. His wife was Elizabeth Ferree, born November 2, 1747. He died in Virginia, October 22, 1790. She died on the Du- gan farm in Valley township. William Millar's father was an emigrant from Germany, first to Pennsylvania, and then to Virginia. The location of the Vir- ginia home is now in Warren county, Virginia, formerly Shenandoah.


John W. Millar first visited Kentucky in 1799, and in 1802, he and John I. Vanmeter bought three sections of land, at government price, $2.00 per acre in the Scioto valley. John W. Millar's share was 900 acres. The terms of pur- chase are stated in the article herein in Congressional lands. John W. Millar died owning the same land and it passed to his son, Abram F. and from him to George B. so that the land has been in the same family since 1802. John W. Millar was a man of great determination, and quick action. As soon as he had secured his land he made up his mind he must have a wife and found a family. He went back to Virginia and there on September 22, 1803, he married Polly Headley, and immediately began his wedding journey to the wilderness of the new state of Ohio, by wagons and on horseback. They crossed the Ohio at Wheeling by fording and went to Zanesville and thence south to their new home. From Chillicothe they had to make their own road. John W. and his wife each rode horseback. His team was driven by his brother-in-law, William Headley. Their wagon was loaded with their household goods brought from Virginia. Polly Headley Millar was born June 7, 1782.


It was in December. 1803, when the bridal party reached their new home. A squatter had built a pole cabin on the land and they took possession of it, and set up their household goods. The first baby came along promptly, as was usual in those days, July 9, 1804. It was a girl named, Elizabeth Elton. She grew to womanhood and married Franklin Reynolds, May 22, 1827. The second child was Sarah N. born September 17, 1805. She married James B. Turner, of Piketon. He died December 9, 1860, in his seventieth year. They had two children, Jane Elizabeth, born November 7, 1830, and John William, born April 29, 1834. Elizabeth married Dr. C. Blaser, October 20, 1850, and had two chil- dren, James Turner, born January 20, 1852, and Anna Maria, born February 22, 1854. The third child of John W. Millar was a son, William Headley, born Feb- ruary 28, 1807. The fourth child of John W. Millar, was Maria Minta, born January 13, 1815. She married Gideon Chenoweth, January 27, 1842. The fifth child of John W. Millar, died in infancy, Isaac Newton. The sixth child of John W. Millar was Abram Ferree born May 26, 1818 and died February 23, 1868. Ho was a well known farmer in Scioto county. He married Harriet F. Peters. March 3, 1840. They had four children: George Bliss Millar, who has a sep- arate sketch herein; Charles William, born November 16, 1844, died September


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6, 1863; Elizabeth Reynolds, born November 28, 1846, died in infancy; Franklin Ferre, born August 28, 1850. He married Mary Elizabeth Thomas, and died December 7, 1880, of typhoid fever in Portsmouth, Ohio, leaving no issue. The seventh child of John W .. Millar was Charles, born July 18, 1820. He married Rebecca Millar, October 12, 1844.


The strenous life of the early settlers, the miasma, the discomforts and bardships of the pioneer times, Mrs. Millar, the wife of John W. Millar, could not endure. She died on May 2, 1846, aged forty-three years and eleven months. She was a remarkable woman. The inscription on the grave-stone says, "leaving her disconsolate husband and six children to deplore their ir- reparable loss. She was a dutiful daughter, an affectionate wife, and prudent mother, a prompt and sincere friend." She was only ill seven days. Her hus- band had left home in March to go to New Orleans with a flat-boat load of produce and did not reach home till two weeks after her death. John W. Mil- lar survived until January 12, 1857, when he died aged seventy-six years, two months and twelve days. John W. Millar was a well educated man in his time. He was particularly ambitious to keep up with the times and took regu- iarly and carefully read the National Intelligencer, the Ohio State Journal and the old Scioto Gazette. It would be difficult at this time to describe all the qualities of John W. Millar, but with his lands, he transmitted his personal qualities to his son, Abraham F. Millar, who in turn transmitted the character and lands to his son, George Bliss Millar. Those who know the latter, know the qualities of John W. Millar.




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