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Author: S. J. Clarke

JOHN H. MCMILLAN.
    Admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1895, John H. McMillan has since made steady
progress in his profession and as a partner in the firm of McMillan & McMillan
he ranks as one of the leading attorneys of the state. Throughout the period
since admitted to practice he has made his home in Arkadelphia, his native city.
He was born March 27, 1871, and is a son of Henry W. McMillan, a prominent
lawyer and lawmaker, who served in the state legislature from his district on
two different occasions and was numbered among the foremost men of Clark county.
He was a native of North Carolina and pursued his early education in Chapel Hill
College at Raleigh, that state, there winning a literary degree and later his
degree in law. In young manhood, about a decade prior to the Civil war, he came
to Arkansas, settling first in Columbia county, where he taught school.
Subsequently he became a teacher in the schools of Camden and in that city he
was married. Later both he and his wife were teachers in the Camden schools. At
the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. McMillan enlisted for service in the
Confederate army as a private and rose to the rank of colonel of his regiment,
being on active duty throughout the period of hostilities. Following the close
of the war he took up his abode in Arkadelphia and entered upon the practice of
law, with which he was prominently identified to the time of his death. He left
the impress of his individuality and ability in large measure upon the history
of the city. He ranked with the ablest representatives of the bar here. He was
very thorough, careful and conscientious in the preparation of his cases and
presented his cause clearly and cogently before the courts, his reasoning being
at all times sound and his deductions logical. Moreover, he closely studied the
vital problems and issues of the day and did not a little to mold public thought
and action. His interest in the general welfare was of a most tangible character
and he became a recognized leader in the section of the state in which he made
his home. In young manhood he wedded Miss Fannie T. Williams, a native of North
Carolina, who was well known among the pioneer teachers of Arkansas. She, too,
has departed this life.

    John H. McMillan was educated in the public schools of Arkadelphia and in
Ouachita College, which conferred upon him the Bachelor of Science degree in
1893. He afterward began preparation for the bar as a law student in the
Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, from which he received his
degree in 1895. He was admitted to practice at the bars of Virginia and of
Arkansas in the summer of that year and entered upon his professional duties in
Arkadelphia, where he has become a prominent figure in the courts. For the past
twenty-six years he has been active in upholding the legal status of this
section of the state. Since beginning practice he has been associated with his
brother, Dougald McMillan, and for the past three years a younger brother,
David, has been a member of the firm, which has long held high rank as
representative of the Arkansas bar.

    On the 9th of September, 1901, John H. McMillan was married to Miss May
Boswell of Arkadelphia, and they have become parents of a son and daughter:
Boswell and Mary Ernestine. Fraternally Mr. McMillan is connected with
Arkadelphia Lodge. No. 1149, B. P. O. E., also with the Woodmen of the World.
His religious faith is that of the Baptist church, in which he is serving as
deacon, while in all the work of the church he takes an active and helpful
interest. Aside from his profession he is connected with the Merchants &
Planters Bank of Arkadelphia as a director and he is the owner of a farm of
thirty-five thousand acres in Clark county, of which Ave hundred acres is under
cultivation, being operated under the direct supervision of Mr. McMillan. His
interest in agricultural life forms a helpful diversion from his law practice
which makes heavy demands upon his time and energy. His devotion to his clients'
interests is proverbial yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher
allegiance to the majesty of the law.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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