Bio of McMILLAN, John D. (b.1860), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 71-72
JOHN D. McMILLAN
Minneapolis has long since become the center of the grain trade of the country
and among the chief captains of industry here are those who are active in
connection with some feature of the grain business. In this field John D.
McMillan is well known as the president of the Osborne McMillan Elevator Company
and there is much in his life record that should serve as a stimulating
influence in the lives of others. Born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1860, he
pursued a public school education, and immediately after putting aside his
textbooks entered the employ of the Cargill Brothers Elevator Company in his
native city, there remaining for ten years. In 1887 he came to Minne­apolis and
soon after his arrival became associated with Edward N. Osborne in organ­izing
the Osborne McMillan Elevator Company. They built a large elevator on the line
of the Soo Railroad and later erected the Empire elevator on the Milwaukee
Railroad and the Northland elevator at another location on the Soo. This is
indicative of the steady growth and development of the business, which is now
one of mammoth propor­tions. Each step in the career of Mr. McMillan has been a
forward one and each forward step has brought him a broader outlook and wider
opportunities. In addition to his extensive holdings in Minneapolis he is also
largely interested in the International Elevator Company, which operates in
western Canada. The aggregate of the interests with which Mr. McMillan is
identified are large and in the management thereof he displays much prudence,
sagacity and unfaltering enterprise. In fact, he employs every feature that
contributes to progress and prosperity in connection with the grain trade and he
is classed with those men whose extensive and prominent interests have made
Minneapolis the grain center of the United States.
Mr. McMillan has been elected to the presidency of the Minneapolis Chamber of
Commerce, in which he has also served as a director. He is well known in the
leading social organizations of the city, including the Minneapolis Club, the
Minikahda Club and the Lafayette Club. Municipal welfare and progress are also
matters of deep concern to him and he is ever ready to give his support to any
undertaking established to advance the general good. Upon questions of this
character he brings to play the same keen sagacity and earnest purpose which
have characterized the conduct of his business affairs and his support of any
public measure is sure to win for it a large following.