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Notes for DR. ROBERT MCMILLAN:
Information on Dr. Robert McMillan was obtained from the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco, California which gives some interesting biographical information on one of Chester County, South Carolina's earliest families, the family of Dr. Robert McMillan.
It is copied from "Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men", by Alonzo Phelps, 1882 and made available to the Chester News and Reporter by William A. Cuthbertson of Girard, Kansas, a descendant, and Mrs. J. W. Crowder of Chester, S.C.
Dr. Robert McMillan was born in Northeastern Chester County near Lands Ford on November 27, 1804. He and his twin sister were the youngest of a family of twelve children.
His paternal grandfather was a Scotchman and migrated in early life to London, England, where his father William McMillan was born. The occupation of his grandfather was that of a Paisley weaver.
His father, William McMillan, married a lady in Ireland, the daughter of James Walker, a gentleman of prominence and the owner of large landed estate. His maternal grandmother's name Wyle. Both his mother and grandmother were natives of Ireland, although of English Ancestry.
William McMillan and his young wife soon after their marriage migrated to the United States and settled near Land's Ford in Chester County, South Carolina. Their home was in the locality where General William Richardson Davie fought successfully one of the severest battles of the American Revolution. Here he purchased a tract of land consisting of 600 acres on which he established himself and raised a family.
This is just part of the information on William McMillan which the above Society published.
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