BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 493-494.

JACOB McMILLAN, a prosperous farmer of Colerain township, was born and 
raised on the farm where he now lives, son of Jacob and Sarah (Vale) 
McMillan. The father, born in York county, Penn., in 1796, died in 1884. He 
was a son of Thomas McMillan, and grandson of John McMillan, a native of 
Scotland. The mother, born in York county, Penn., in 1800, daughter of 
Joshua Vale, a native of Wales. Our subject's parents had five children: 
Mahlon, deceased; Eli, died 1890; Sarah A., Elizabeth, Jacob and Ira V. 
Jacob was raised in Belmont county, receiving a common school education in 
the old log school-house. He and sisters own 101 acres of the old homestead 
farm, where his father settled and remained till his death. He and family 
were members of the Society of Friends.