THOMAS McMILLEN, son of ANDREW McMILLEN born in Ireland
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Re: JOHN McMILLEN, son of CHARLES McMILLEN
JoAnn Betten 9/15/12
JoAnn,
I am not related to your family.I found this.I don't do personal research.In the past I posted online information from books that I found.
Cathy
Title: Genealogical and personal history of western Pennsylvania, Vol. 1
Author: Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Pg. 251
From the north of Ireland came the immigrant ancestor of this line of McMILLENS, ANDREW, who settled in Pittsburgh, about 1790, accompanied by his family.He became the owner of a farm in the vicinity of the present town of Lawrenceville, and cultivated this land, also following the occupation of drover.It was in the pursuit of this latter calling that he lost his life.He had driven the stock, a large sum, had started alone upon his homeward journey, little concerned with his own welfare, for he had made the trip times without (pg. 252) number.On this occasion, however, he was probably followed from the place where he had transacted this business, and when favorable opportunity presented, he was attacked and murdered, his assailants stripping his garments of everything of value and then throwing the body into the river.Drifting slowly downstream, this was cast up on an island below Pittsburgh, where it was afterward found.After this tragedy his widow returned to Ireland, the land of her birth, in 1805 returning to Pittsburgh.
THOMAS McMILLEN, son of ANDREW McMILLEN, was born in Ireland, died in Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pa., buried in the old Bethany graveyard, one mile from Bridgeville.He accompanied his parents to the U. S. and grew to mature years in Pittsburgh, about 1820 becoming the owner of a farm at Bridgeville, Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny Co., Pa., where he died, in 1862.He continually added to his original tract, and at his death was one of the most prosperous men of the locality.He was twice married.Children of first marriage of THOMAS McMILLEN: 1. ANDREW, of whom further.2. WILLIAM C., died in 1887; was a farmer on the McMILLEN homestead all of his life; married (first) CATHERINE PORTER, (second) LAVINA PINCH.3. And 4. Daughters, who died in infancy.THOMAS McMILLEN’S second wife was a widow of considerable means.Children: 5. JACOB, a farmer of Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny Co., Pa.6. SAMUEL, died in 1886; was a farmer of Allegheny Co.7. WILSON, died in young manhood.8. RACHEL, married DANIEL WILLIAMS; died in Oakdale, Pa.9. And 10.Two daughters.
ANDREW (2) McMILLEN, son of THOMAS McMILLEN, was born in Bridgeville, Allegheny Co., Pa., and there died aged 84 years.He passed his entire life on the home farm, cultivating its acres with excellent success.His religious faith was the Presbyterian, to which the previous generations of the family had been adherents.He married RACHEL ESTEP, descendant of a German family that early settled in Pa., where the purity of their language was lowered by contact with the speech of the Dutch settlers in that locality.Children of ANDREW and RACHEL (ESTEP) McMILLEN: 1. THOMAS, a farmer of Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny Co., Pa.; married JANE CRUMB, both deceased.2. JESSE, married NANCY MACK, both deceased; lived on a farm in Upper St. Clair Township, Allegheny Co., Pa.3. JOHN, of whom further.4. ANDREW, married NANCY CRUMB, both deceased; lived on a farm in Upper St. Clair Township.5. ROBERT, a retired coal miner; married; resides at Bridgeville, Pa.6. RACHEL, married ROBERT DAWSON, both deceased; resided at Coal Bluff, Pa.7. MARGARET, married JOHN CHAPMAN, a farmer; lived near Canonsburg, Washington Co., Pa.8. SARAH, married DAVID PLYINGER, a contractor; lived and died in Bridgeville, Pa.
(IV) JOHN McMILLEN, son of ANDREW (2) and RACHEL (ESTEP) McMILLEN, was born in Bridgeville, Allegheny Co., Pa., in 1834, died in 1878.He was reared on the home farm, and finding agricultural (pg. 253) operations strongly to his liking he purchased property and established independently.Discovering coal upon his property he began to develop the resources of the deposit, realizing a substantial income from this manner of dealing, and also became a general contractor, performing contracting work of all kinds in the neighborhood, including county work on the roads.His life was cut short by a most unfortunate accident when he was 44 years of age, a fall of slate while he was at work in his mine causing his death.At various times he had been the incumbent of numerous county offices, always as the successful candidate of the Republican party, and was a member and regular attendant of the Methodist Episcopal Church.He married (first) ELEANOR EWING, born near Monaca, Beaver Co., Pa., in 1839, died in childbirth in 1864, daughter of THOMAS and ELLEN (ESTEP) EWING, her father of Dutch descent, born in Lancaster Co., later settling in Beaver Co., Pa.; her mother a sister of RACHEL, wife of ANDREW McMILLEN.He married (second) MARTHA EWING, a sister of his first wife, who died three years later.He married (third) MARGARET MACK, who later married a second time, her second husband being JOHN TRIMBLE, their present home Bridgeville, Pa.Children of JOHN McMILLEN’S first marriage: 1. MARGARET, married BENJAMIN ROSSER, deceased; resides in Carnegie, Pa.2. ANDREW W., of whom further.3. ELEANOR, married H. J. DIETRICH; lives in Carnegie.4. RACHEL, deceased; married MICHAEL McQUADE; their home was in Carnegie.Child of second marriage of JOHN McMILLEN: 5. SARAH, deceased; married JAMES D. WATTON.Child of third marriage of JOHN McMILLEN: 6. MAUD ST. CLAIR, married CRAWFORD J. CALDWELL; resides in Greensburg, Pa.
(V) ANDREW W. McMILLEN, son of JOHN and ELEANOR (EWING) McMILLEN, was born in Bridgeville, Allegheny Co., Pa., June 9, 1860.Until he was 15 years of age he attended the public schools of the place of his birth.He then obtained employment on a farm near Canonsburg, Washington Co., Pa., where he remained for one year.He then passed one year engaged in labor of the same sort on a farm near his home, later becoming an employee in Byers Sheet Iron Mill in Pittsburgh, South Side, whence he went to Swartz’s Mill, working for a few months as shearsman.The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad then claimed his services as a carpenter, after which he became one of the first crew to man the new steamboat, “Harry Brown,” which was launched on the Ohio River and put into commission on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.Leaving river work, he was for the following mining until 1882.He once more became a carpenter, working on the Panhandle Railroad, subsequently in Carnegie, and was next a brakeman on the railroad.In March, 1884, he was elected to the office of constable of Chartiers borough, later becoming chief of police, and in May, 1888, was elected to his present position of justice of the peace of Carnegie, his last commission expiring in 1920.His political party is the Republican, (pg. 254) which he has actively supported all his life.He and his wife are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while he holds membership in the Royal Arcanum and the Loyal Order of Moose.MR. McMILLEN is a respected and highly regarded citizen of Carnegie.
MR. McMILLEN married, Jan. 11, 1888, ELLEN CALLAHAN, born at Ewingville, Allegheny Co., Pa., daughter of WILLIAM and BRIDGET CALLAHAN, her father a native of Ireland, a miner in Pa.Children of ANDREW W. and ELLEN (CALLAHAN) McMILLEN: 1. ELEANOR PEARL, married CHARLES RAY, who was killed in a railroad accident; she lives at her parents’ home.2. WILLIAM GLENN, unmarried; resides in Staples, Minnesota; he was for two years a student in Yale University and served a two year term in the U. S. army.3. LEONARD H., married ELEANOR COLE; lived in Carnegie, Pa.
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