Mason County, West Virginia Biography of EVERETT F. MILLARD This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 611-612 EVERETT F. MILLARD. During a long and active career Everett F. Millard, sole owner of the Millard Sand Works of Berkeley Springs, has worked his own way to a position of prosperity and importance among his fellow men, by whom he is known as a citizen of public spirit and enterprise and a man who has proven his worth and loyalty as a friend. It has been his fortune to have chosen a field of endeavor for which his abilities eminently equipped him, and in the working out of his success he has never found it necessary to take advantage of another or to step from the straight path of legitimate dealing. Mr. Millard was born on a farm adjoining the Harris- burg and Middletown Turnpike, four miles from the state capital, a son of Michael Millard, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, in 1832, and a grandson of a native of England, who immigrated to the United States and settled in York County, where he married a lady of Pennsylvania-Dutch birth. The grandparents passed the rest of their days in York County, where they were well- known and very highly respected. Michael Millard after obtaining an ordinary educational training served an apprenticeship to the blacksmith trade, to which vocation he devoted his activities for a time after he acquired its mastery. Later he went to Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in a limestone quarry for a time, and at the breaking out of the war between the states volunteered for service in the Union army, but was rejected by the examin- ing physician. The Government, however, accepted his ser- vices as a blacksmith, and for the greater part of the war he was employed in shoeing horses at Washington, D. C. Following the close of the struggle he leased a limestone quarry at the Half Way House, four miles east of Harris- burg, and operated it several years, after which he moved to Steelton, Pennsylvania, where he lived in retirement until his death in his eighty-second year. He married Martha Orth, who was born in Germany and was but four years of age when she was brought to the United States by her parents, who settled in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and there spent the remainder of their days. Mrs. Millard died at the age of fifty-three years, having reared a family of five children: Jacob F., a resident of Lebanon, Pennsyl- vania; Everett F., of this notice; Charles and Michael, who are deceased; and Martha, who is the wife of Frank Davies and lives at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Everett F. Millard attended the public schools of his native locality and was reared to habits of industry. At the tender age of eight years he commenced work at the quarry with his father, and continued working with the elder man until he reached the age of twenty-one years, at which time he embarked upon a career of his own. As he had no capital he sought employment and found it at the Pennsylvania Steel Works, where he was employed for five years, then going to Lebanon County, where in the winter season he dealt in coal and during the rest of the year engaged in lime burning for the local market. Thus he accumulated some capital, and in 1898 came to Martinsburg and, with a younger brother, owned and operated the Standard Stone and Lime Company's quarries for two years. His brother at that time went to California for his health, and Mr. Millard continued to conduct the business alone for ten years, after which he founded the Millard Sand Works plant at Berkeley Springs, of which he has been sole proprietor ever since. He has made this a very successful enterprise, and while so doing has established a reputation for integrity and fair dealing that is proverbial. Mr. Millard was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Crook, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and to this union there have been born six children: Elizabeth, who is the wife of Frank C. Dunham, superintendent for the E. F. Millard Sand Works, and has four living chil- dren, Everett Millard, Anna Jane, Frank Taylor and Robert L.; Anna, who is the wife of Walter Trout; Frances, who is the wife of C. W. Cline; Jacob F., who married Isabella Dorn and has two children, Elizabeth and an infant; Albert E., who married Portia Salada and has one son, Everett; and S. Margaret, who is unmarried and resides with her parents. Mr. Millard is a member of the First United Brethren Church, and has served many years as a member of the Official Board thereof.