William McMillen    

WILLIAM McMILLEN, loan office and wood yard, Meadville, was born in Hayfield Township, this county, August 8, 1840, and is a son of John and Jane (Bradley) McMillen. His grandfather came to Pennsylvania in 1797, settled in Hayfield Township about 1800, taking up land from the Holland Land Company, and devoting himself to farming, as did also his son John. William McMillen followed farming until he was thirty-two years of age, when he came to Meadville, where for a time he was Market Master, and in 1879 commenced his present business. He was married in 1867 to Mary, daughter of John Mahoney, a native of this county, and of Irish descent. They have six children: Mary, Maggie, Adda, Ella, Annie and William, Jr. In politics Mr. McMillen is a Democrat.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 752