MCMILLAN, J. A., M. D.; N.C., then Acadia Parish, Louisiana --------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted for the LA GenWeb Archives by Mike Miller, Oct. 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------- * ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ J. A. McMILLAN, M.D., Bourque Point.--Dr. J. A. McMillan was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and reared in Alabama. He is the son of Neill and Agatha (Ford) McMillan, both natives of North Carolina. His parents removed to Texas in 1850, where his father was engaged in planting and stock raising. Both he and our subject's mother died in that State, the former in 1888, the latter in 1883. The subject of this sketch began life for himself at the age of nineteen, as a clerk in a store at Oxford, Mississippi. Here he was married, in 1845, to Mrs. Gillie (Alston) Moore, the widow of Arthur Moore, of Mississippi. The Doctor always had a decided predilection for the study of medicine, and in 1852 he entered the medical school of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, and in the same year he began practice at Jacksonport, Arkansas, in association with Dr. Jones. He only remained here a short while, however, when he removed to Houston, Texas, and at that place practised [sic] for two years. He located in Washington, Louisiana, in 1859, where he remained until 1869, when he returned to Texas, remaining there one year. In 1870, returning to Louisiana, he located at Church Point, but now resides near Crowley, at Bourque's Point. Dr. McMillan is a progressive citizen, as well as a physician of high rank. He has at different times served as member of the parish school board, and is at present deputy coroner. The Doctor's first wife died in 1856. He afterward married Miss Cleophine Lambert, who died in 1869, having become the mother of one son, Cook. As a result of the first union, four children were born, two sons and two daughters. The Doctor is now united in marriage with Miss Louise Bourque. They are the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters, four of whom are now living: Malcomb, Viola, May and Una. Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp. 268-269. Edited by William Henry Perrin. Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing Company. # # #