BIO:  J. P. MILLAR, Tyrone Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 514

J. P. MILLAR, farmer, P. O. Heidlersburg, was born in Tyrone Township, this 
county, in 1826, and is a son of Peter and Anna Margaret (Yett) Millar; former 
of whom died in 1873, aged eighty-six years, and the latter January 30, 1873, 
aged eighty-four years.  Peter Millar held some of the offices of the township, 
and he and wife were members of the Lutheran Church, and are consistent 
Christian people.  J. P. Millar married, in 1863, Eliza Flickinger, and settled 
where he now resides.  He is the father of five children:  Maggie, wife of 
Franklin March; P. Emory, J. Harry, R. M., Katy and Emma.  Our subject is one of 
Adams County’s self-made men.  Having begun life with small means, he has 
succeeded admirably; carries on a farm of 100 acres, and owns another of 100 
acres, all well improved.  He and his wife belong to the Lutheran Church, with 
which they have been connected since quite young.  For the past three years Mr. 
Millar has been an elder in this church, having previously been deacon.  In 
politics he is a Democrat.