BIO: Edward McMillen, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 371-372.
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  McMillen, Edward, was born in Sussex County, N.J. When nine years old 
he desired to join the Church, but the pastor thought he was too young. 
At fifteen he joined the Church at Frankford Plains charge on probation 
and at sixteen was received into full membership in the Newton Church 
(Newark Conference). From early childhood he had a desire to become a 
minister of the Gospel when sufficiently educated. In 1885 and 1886 he 
was apprenticed to a pharmacist. From 1887-93 he was with his father on 
a farm. In September, 1893, he entered Centenary Collegiate Institute, 
at Hackettstown, N.J., where he graduated in 1896. In the fall of 1896, 
he entered Wesleyan University and graduated in 1900 with the degree of 
A.B. He received exhorter's license in September, 1893, and local 
preacher's license in 1894, receiving deacon's orders at Newark 
Conference in 1899. He supplied Palisade Avenue Methodist Episcopal 
Church during the vacation of the pastor in the summer of 1899. He also 
did some supply work in Sussex County, N.J., and in and around 
Middletown, Conn., during his college course. In 1900 he entered this 
Conference.
  On October 3, 1900, he married Miss Dora Isabel Blackman, A.B. 
(Wesleyan), of Middletown, Conn.
  His pastoral record is as follows: 1900, Campville; 1901, Franklin 
Forks; 1902-03, Newton.