Johnson McMillan, was a Kansas pioneer. He was born in Harrison County, Ohio, August 5, 1830, grew up and married there, was a farmer, and in 1872 he moved to DeKalb County, Missouri, and cleared up a farm in that section of Northwest Missouri. In 1876 he moved further west to Reno County, Kansas, and a year later homesteaded a quarter section and also took a timber claim in Stafford County. That land and farm provided him his business activities the rest of his life. He died in a hospital at Topeka in February, 1914. He was a republican and was a veteran Union soldier.
Johnson McMillan married Martha J. McCollam, born in Harrison County, Ohio, in 1831 and died on the homestead farm in Kansas in 1909. They had a family of twelve children: W. F. McMillan, who was a railroad man and died at the age of fifty-one at Scio, Ohio; George W., who during his early career served six years as chief of police at Conneaut, Ohio, came to Kansas in 1877 and homesteaded in Stafford County, lived on his claim fifteen years, and after living again in Ohio for several years returned to his claim in Stafford County in 1907 and died there in 1914; James G., who died in Harrison County, Ohio, at the age of fifty-four; Heber B., who died on his farm near Stafford at the age of fifty; A. L. McMillan; Johnson T., a retired farmer at Stafford; Elmer, a barber at Stafford; Mary Viola, wife of S. A. Amend, a farmer near Stafford; William M., a retired farmer at Stafford; Martha J., wife of W. M. Buckle, who lives on the old homestead of her father; Henry F., a farmer in Douglas Township of Stafford County; and Rutherford Hayes, who owns an 800-acre ranch and is now living retired at Stafford. As this brief record indicates the family have all made creditable records in life.

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