Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....MacMillan, Thomas H. 1854 - living in 1913
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   THOMAS H. MACMILLAN. Noteworthy among the prominent business men and the
active and enterprising citizens of Savannah, is Thomas H. MacMillan, one of the
leading manufacturers of the city, a former member of the state legislature, and
an ex-alderman. A native of North Carolina, he was born March 11, 1854, at
Fayetteville, where he was brought up and educated.

   Learning the trades of a machinist and coppersmith when young, Mr. MacMillan
followed them in Fayetteville for several years. Locating in Savannah, Georgia,
in December, 1878, he embarked in the manufacture of copper turpentine stills, a
venture that proved so successful that he has continued it ever since, his plant
being one of the substantial industries of the city. Associated in business with
Mr. MacMillan is his brother, Ronald H. MacMillan, of Fayetteville, North
Carolina, the firm name being MacMillan Brothers. The business of this firm has
kept pace with the .growth of the naval stores industry of the South, and in
order to meet with greater facility the demands for their stills MacMillan
Brothers maintain branch establishments at Jacksonville, Mobile and Pensacola.

   The products of the MacMillan plants are notable throughout the turpentine
regions for first-class material, honest, durable workmanship, and resultant
satisfactory service to the user. In addition to the making of seamless stills,
the MacMillan copper shops in Savannah, and the branch shops in Jacksonville,
Mobile and Pensacola, manufacture other appliances used in the turpentine
industry, doing general coppersmith work.

   Mr. MacMillan has other interests of note, also. He established and for eight
years was president, of the Savannah Blow Pipe and Exhaust Company,
manufacturers of blow pipes systems. Withdrawing from that concern in 1911, he
founded, in 1911, a new organization to carry on the same line of industry, it
being the South Atlantic Blow Pipe and Sheet Metal Company, of which he is
president, the headquarters of the company being in Savannah, with branch
establishments at Jacksonville and Atlanta.

   Mr. MacMillan is one of the directorate of the Citizens and Southern Bank; he
is a member of the board of trade, of the chamber of commerce, and other
business and social organizations. Fraternally he is a prominent member of the
Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons, being a Knight Templar, a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Alee Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

   For many years Mr. MacMillan has taken an active and public-spirited part in
civic affairs. For two terms he served as alderman, and was chairman of the
committee which had in hand the completion of the new water works system. He is
a member of the Savannah park and tree commission, which is doing much towards
improving and beautifying the city. During the administration of Governor
Candler, Mr. MacMillan represented Chatham county in the state legislature, for
two terms rendering appreciated service as a member of the finance and
appropriation committees.

   Mr. MacMillan married, in Savannah, Gertrude Bliss, who was born and educated
in this city. Their union has been blessed by the birth of four children,
namely: D. B. MacMillan, who has charge of the MacMillan interests in Pensacola;
Thomas H. MacMillan, Jr., connected with the Savannah plant; Raymond H.
MacMillan, representing South Atlantic Blow Pipe Company in Jacksonville; and
Miss Alice MacMillan.



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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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