JAMES MCMILLIN
James McMillin was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 28th of July, 1842, and is the son of David and Rachel (Welbans) McMillin. His mother died in 1880, and his father is now living in Knox county, Ohio. His boyhood days were spent in his native State until 1854, when he moved to Knox county, that State, and there followed farming. Not being satisfied with the country, he concluded to come to Iowa, where he could purchase and improve the wild land. Thus in 1876, he came to Cass county, Iowa, and in 1878, he purchased eighty acres of land, forty acres on section 5, and forty on section 6. He has since improved his land, and has built a fine house, raises grain and stock. Mr. McMillan was married in 1872, to Eliza Hearsh, a native of Ohio. They have three children--Lena, born June 29, 1873; Isaiah, born October 2, 1875, and Sarah, born September 28, 1879. Mr. McMillin is a man of superior character, and is honored and respected by his many friends. Eliza, wife of James McMillin, was born May 26, 1850, and is the daughter of Peter and Sarah (Suigart) Hearsh. Her father and mother are now dead, her father died July 11, 1857; her mother, July 19, 1883. Mrs. McMillan was born in Richland county, Ohio, and lived there until 1876, when she came with her husband, to Cass county, Iowa.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 690.
