"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898 ___________________________________________________________________________________
GEORGE H. MILLEN is one of the most
reliable and trusted employees of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Company. Just thirty years have rolled away
since he became connected with this corporation,
and during this period he has proved himself
worthy of entire confidence. From one position
to another of greater importance he has been
steadily advanced, until he is now occupying the
place of foreman of the car inspectors, being
located in Phillipsburg. He is a Republican,
and was elected from the third ward to the common council of this place in 1880, and in 1891
was re-elected, serving acceptably for two terms.
The birth of our subject occurred in Morris
County, N. J., September 20, 1843. His parents were James B. and Elizabeth (Nutt) Millen.
The father was a native of Morris County, where
his ancestors for many generations had resided.
He followed the agricultural lines of making his
livelihood and wrought out success by his individual efforts. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and stood very high in the estimation of all who knew him. He died in February,
1893, regretted by all, his loss being felt as one
affecting the community at large. His wife came
from an old and honored English family. Her
father, Thomas Nutt, was a younger son in a
wealthy house, and received very little in the
way of property upon his father's death, as his
eldest brother inherited the bulk of the estate,
according to old English custom. He concluded
to try his fortunes in the United States, and here
passed the close of his life. Mrs. Elizabeth
Milieu died in 1885. She was the mother of four
children, of whom Sarah O. married John D.
Lindsley, now of Morris County, N. J.; Thomas
N. resides in Bound Brook, N. J., and Anna is
the wife of C. B. Mills, who carries on the old
homestead.
In his boyhood George H. Millen attended the
public schools until he was about seventeen.
His chances for obtaining an education were,
however, rather meager, as he only went to
school in the winter season, and was actively
engaged in farming in the summer. When
the war broke out he enlisted in the Seventh
Regiment of New Jersey Infantry, and served in
the Army of the Potomac, participating in all the
numerous engagements and battles in which his
regiment bore a part. He was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant.
After the war he came to Phillipsburg, and has
been thoroughly identified with the best interests
of this community ever since. March 1, 1866,
he became connected with the Warren Foundry,
and two years later, on the 2 2d of March,
entered the employ of the railway to which
he still gives his services. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of
Delaware Lodge No. 52, F. & A. M. ; Eagle
Chapter No. 30, R. A. M. , and is past master of
the first-named. He is also a member of the
Knights of Pythias. September 25, 1865, Mr.
Millen married Bertha B. Arnold, daughter of
Samuel D. Arnold, and grandchild of Gen. Jacob
D. Arnold, an officer of the Revolutionary war.
Mr. Millen and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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