Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....McMillan, J. L. April 8, 1859 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 February 7, 2009, 1:42 pm Author: Hardin & Willard McMillan, J. L., German Flats, was born in Cambridge, Washington county, April 8, 1859. He taught a year in the Putnam Institute, then was clerk for a time and subsequently engaged in manufacturing. He is the inventor of the type- setting machine and is manager of a company manufacturing them in Ilion. He has also invented a type-distributer. In 1889 Mr. McMillan married Miss Martha E. Weaver and they have one daughter. McMillan has been nine years in Ilion. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/mcmillan909gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb