MACMILLAN, a name for many years prominently identified with English publishing interests. Most important was DANIEL MAC MILLAN : b. Upper Corrie, Isle of Arran, 13 Sept. 1813;
June 1857. He took service with a Cambridge bookseller in 1833, and with Seeley, Fleet street, London, in 1837. He set up in business in London in 1843, but soon removed to Cambridge, and by 1856 had de veloped a very prosperous trade. He pub lished Hughes'
McMILLAN, SIR Daniel Hunter, Cana dian administrator: b. Whitby, Ontario, January 1846. He was educated in Canada and in 1864 served with the Canadian Volunteers on the Niagara frontier. He afterward took part in the military operations during the Fenian Raid in 1866; the River Expedition of 1870; and in the Northwestern Rebellion of 1885 he was awarded a medal. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature from Winnipeg in 1880, and became a member of the Manitoba gov ernment in 1889. Since 1900 he has been lieutenant-governor of Manitoba and Keewatin. He was knighted in 1902, and formerly held the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Manitoba Grenadiers.
MacMILLAN, Hugh, Scottish Presbyteriw clergyman: b. Aberfeldy, Perthshire,
17 Sept. 1833; d. 1903. He was minister of the Free West Church, Greenock, N. B., 1878-1901. He was a brilliant writer and preacher, and among his published works may be mentioned 'Bible Teachings in Nature> (1867) ; 'Holidays in High Lands' (1869) ; 'The Ministry of Na ture' (1871); 'The True Vine' (1871); 'The Mystery of Grace' (1893); 'The Daisies of Nazareth' (1894) : 'The Clock of Nature' (1896) ; 'The Touch of God> (1903) ;
McMILLAN, James, American capitalist and senator: b. Hamilton, Ontario, 12 March 1838; d. Manchester, Mass., 1902. He entered business at Detroit, Mich., in 1855, since which he enjoyed a prosperous career as organizer of the Michigan Car Company, and general manu facturer in the railroad business. He was elected to the United States Senate as a Repub lican in 1889, and re-elected in 1895 and 1901. He was active in many commercial enterprises and was president of the Detroit Iron Furnace Company, which employed more than 3,000 men. He gave the city of Detroit a thoroughly equipped hospital, costing $250,000, and endowed it with $300,000; to the University of Michigan a fine Shakespearean library, and added to the college buildings McMillan Hall. He bestowed substantial benefactions on several other institu tions.
McMILLAN, James William, American solider : b. Clark County, western Virginia, 1826; d. 10 March 1903. At the time of his death he was a member of the board of review of the Pension Bureau. He was brevetted major-general in March 1865, commanded the 1st and 2d brigades of the Nineteenth Army corps, served with Butler in the Gulf campaign, and captured the blockade runner Fox, one of the richest prizes of the Civil War.
McMILLAN, Thomas, American Roman Catholic priest of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle: b. Ayr, Scotland, 13 June 1851. He is of Irish descent, and when three years old came with his parents to America. In 1874 he entered the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle. His chief work has been in Sunday schools. In 1886 he instituted a °reading circle° movement, which has extended over all the country. In 1889 he was largely instrumental in bringing together, at New York, a large number of editors, jour nalists and authors from different parts of the United States to discuss ways and means of making the press more effective in uplifting humanity. This meeting was known as that for the promotion of the °Apostolate of the Press.° In 1892 he was made chairman of the board of studies of the Catholic Summer School of America. In 1897 he was the prime mover in the organization of the °Child Study Congress° held in New York City.