Multnomah-Union County OR Archives Biographies.....McMillan, William Duncan 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 633 - 634
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIAM DUNCAN McMILLAN, secretary of the state board of dental 
examiners, was born in Ford River, Michigan, where his father, the late Duncan 
McMillan, was the general superintendent of a large lumber manufacturing 
concern which operated in northern Michigan and in Wisconsin, where the family 
subsequently resided. William D. McMillan entered the public schools of 
Escanaba, Michigan, and afterward attended the schools of Fort Howard, now a 
part of the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. When he was about ten years of age 
his parents removed to a large ranch near Crookston, Minnesota, where he spent 
the next ten years or more in living the glorious life of a farmer boy, 
alternately roasting in the summer and freezing in the winter, until he 
decided that the life was not suited to his liking, whereupon he turned to the 
city and spent the next few years largely in attending Macalester Academy, 
from which he was graduated, and Macalester College at St. Paul, in which he 
completed his sophomore year. In the succeeding two years he pursued a course 
in dentistry in the Northwestern University Dental College of Chicago and his 
final year's work in dentistry was taken at the North Pacific Dental College 
of Portland, Oregon, since which time he has made his home in this state. He 
first located in Union, where he remained for three years, and afterward went 
to La Grande, where in 1907 he married Miss Evelyn Seemann, a daughter of the 
Rev. S. W. Seemann, pastor of the La Grande Presbyterian church. Their two 
daughters were born at that place.

     In 1910 Dr. McMillan aided in organizing the Grand Ronde Chautauqua and 
for the next ten years was its secretary and one of its directors. In 1917 he 
was appointed by Hon. James Withycombe a member of the Oregon state board of 
dental examiners and at the end of his first term a reappointment was tendered 
him by Hon. Ben W. Olcott, following which Governor Walter M. Pierce 
reappointed him to two additional terms. During practically his entire 
incumbency in office he has served as secretary of the board and as such is 
well and favorably known to the dental fraternity of the northwest. In a 
professional way Dr. McMillan has served as vice president of the Oregon State 
Dental Society, has been delegate to the conventions of the national board of 
dental examiners held in various parts of the country and is always ready and 
willing to serve in any way that may be helpful to the profession.

     In 1921 Dr. McMillan removed from La Grande to Portland, where he 
continues to reside. For many years he has been a member of the various 
Masonic bodies and the Shrine and was secretary of the Shrine Luncheon Club 
during its existence. He is now interested in several business ventures which 
promise to become leading institutions in due course of time. He is also 
connected with the Elks and the Woodmen of the World and is a charter member 
of the Lions Club.

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