Hugh McMillan (1913)
BEZOLD, MCMILLAN
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 10/19/2010 at 16:23:15
The Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 5, 1913
Page 1Death of Hugh McMillan
Hugh McMillan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McMillan, of this city, died Thursday, Oct. 30, in Chicago, where he had gone to consult a specialist in regard to his health. Mr. McMillan had been ill for some time and on the advice of his physician, journeyed from Cheyenne to Chicago Oct. 25, to seek the advice of a specialist. It developed that he was suffering from acute diabetes. His father was summoned from here and he lived only a day after his arrival.
His remains reached here last Friday and the funeral occurred the following day. Mrs. McMillan was visiting her old home in this state when summoned to meet her husband in Chicago, which she did and was with him at the time of his passing away.
The deceased was born in Winterset February 19, 1883, graduated in the high school in 1899. He was married in 1911 to Miss Bezold, of Waterloo, Iowa.
Hugh first went to Cheyenne in the fall of 1905 and entered the employ of John Harrington. He remained continuously in the Harrington store until the spring of 1908, when, in the interest of his health, he joined a surveying party and spent nearly a year in the open. Thereafter he was for some time in Pueblo, Salt Lake and Chicago, working for leading clothing firms until February, 1911, he returned to Cheyenne to enter business by forming a partnership with Miles Shepherd, making the firm of McMillan & Shephard, clothiers. They were successful from the first and their store was one of the finest in Cheyenne. The writer had the pleasure of visiting him during the summer of 1911 and was very much gratified at the success and prosperity of one of Winterset’s best boys.
Hugh was a favorite among his associates here and the news of his sudden demise was a shock to his old friends and the source of the deepest grief to the whole community.
_______________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 5, 1913
Page 1, Column 1HUGH McMILLAN DIES IN CHICAGO
Dies in Presbyterian Hospital Thursday Morning. Had Gone There For Treatment
Hugh McMillan died in the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, Thursday, of acute diabetes. His father, Charles McMillan, and his wife who accompanied him to Chicago, were with him when he died. His serious condition was not known in time for his mother to reach Chicago. The body was brought to Winterset Friday morning and the funeral occurred at the residence, Saturday afternoon at two o’clock, Rev. Corkey of the First Presbyterian church officiating.
Hugh McMillan was in the clothing business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Concerning his death the Cheyenne Daily Tribune says: Friends of Hugh McMillan could not repress and explanation of sorrow and surprise today when the information spread rapidly about Cheyenne that the young business man, member of the firm of McMillan and Sheperd, had died at 7 o’clock this morning in Chicago. Only a very few people, even among his intimate friends, realized that when he left Cheyenne last Saturday to consult the Chicago specialist, he was then in a most precarious condition from diabetes, with which he has been afflicted for some time. So gradually had the malady made its attack that up to the time of his leaving the city he continued daily his duties at the store, though in so weakened a state that even the easiest tasks were performed with the greatest difficulty.
But in thus keeping on and shutting away from his friends and those about him his own ailments and difficulties, Hugh McMillan was manifesting one of the noteworthy traits of an exceptionally fine and manly character. It is rare, indeed, that one needs any avenues of life a man possessed of more genuine good sense, wholehearted public spirit, and progressive business ability than the untimely death of Hugh McMillan has quenched.
He first came to Cheyenne some years ago to take a position with the John Harrington Clothing company. He gave up this place after a time on account of needing a change for his health and subsequently went to Pueblo and still later to Salt Lake City to work. But Wyoming had impressed his foresight for possibilities and he came back again looking for a location in the state. It was about this time that he made arrangements to lease the room occupied in the Moffatt block by the firm of which he was a member and then formed a partnership with Miles Shepherd and the two entered the clothing business together.
It was three years ago that the firm opened his business and in that time, due to the energy and consistent work of the firm, it has taken a place by the side of the leading business of Cheyenne.
No one was ever heard to discount the success which attended Mr. McMillan in his business. It was clean, won by the integrity which was a part of the man’s character. As a member of the local lodge of Elks and also of the Wyoming Consistory and Shrine he had connections outside of his business that gave him an unusually wide acquaintance.
Besides a wife who remains with a very heavy portion of grief, are the father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McMillan, of Winterset, Iowa. The elder Mr. McMillan is a clothing merchant. At the time of his death in Chicago, Mrs. McMillan was with her husband, though she left Cheyenne several weeks ago to make a visit in the east.
Mr. McMillan first came to Cheyenne in the fall of 1905 and entered the employ of John Harrington. He remained continuously in the Harrington store until the spring of 1908, when, in the interests of his health, he joined a surveying party and spent nearly a year in the open. Thereafter, as above stated, he was for some time in Pueblo, Salt Lake and Chicago, working for leading the clothing firms until February, 1911, he returned to Cheyenne to enter business. It was in the following June that he was married to Miss Bezold, of Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. McMillan was not quite 31 years of age, having been born in Winterset, Iowa, in February, 1883. A sister died a year ago of typhoid and he was the one survivor of two children.
According to word received in Cheyenne, the funeral will be held on Saturday at Winterset, Iowa, where interment will also take place.
If a portion of the deep sorrow which is felt in Cheyenne for the death of this young man could reach the bereaved wife and parents the balm of sympathy would go forward lightening their sense of loss.
Hugh McMillan was born in Winterset in 1883 and graduated in the Winterset schools, class ‘99. The entered the state normal school at Cedar Falls and worked for a time afterward in Winterset in his father’s store. He was married to Miss Ova Bezold in Waterloo in June 1911. He was a young man of remarkable stature, standing 6 feet, 6 inches in his stocking feet and was a marked man in any assembly. He was clean and habits and morals and was endowed with far more than usual ability. Here where he grew to manhood he was extremely popular. In Cheyenne he had already won his way to the front rank in business circles.
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