McMillan, Griffith W.

MCMILLAN, MCLAUGHLIN, DUNHAM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/22/2007 at 00:18:25

Source: Monona County History 1890
Chicago National Pub

Griffith W. McMillan, one of the leading attorneys of Onawa, and one of its prominent citizens, came to that city in February, 1870, and engaged in practice with H.L. Evans. A few months later he commenced by himself, but in 1874 formed a partnership with S.B. Martin, which continued until 1884, when the present firm of McMillan & Kindall came into existence.
Mr. McMillan was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, February 3, 1841, and is the son of Dr. Griffith and Eliza (McLaughlin) McMillan, natives also of Ohio. His parents died, father in 1850 and the mother in 1851, but he remained in attendance upon the common schools until his seventeenth year, when he commenced to teach, in order to raise the funds to finish his own education. In 1861 he was graduated from Miller Academy, and then studied law with Albert Shober, at Carrollton, Ohio, and afterward with Gen. Negley.
Mr. McMillan, was admitted to the bar in 1863, after which he enlisted in Company F., Ninety-eighth Ohio Infantry, from which he was discharged at the close of the war. Most of the time from that date until coming to Onawa was spent by him in school-teaching.
Mr. McMillan was married, January 13, 1876, at Onawa, to Miss Abbie M. Dunham, who was born September 18, 1854, in Vermont. They are the parents of two children: Marie Louise and Bessie L.