Millen - Nevin
JOHN MILLEN, resident partner and manager of Alger, Smith & Co., at Black River, was born in Michigan in 1846 and was married to Miss Nellie Allison in 1872. Mr. Millen went into the employ of Moore, Alger & Co. in 1866, as scaler and land looker; commenced as foreman at Au Sable in 1869, and came to Alcona County in 1872 and moved to Black River and became superintendent of
the company’s business.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 277-278)
CHAS. MILLER, dealer in boots and shoes at Harrisville, is a native of Massachusetts. He was in the army from July 1861 until the close of the war in 1865, and was five months in prison. He came to Harrisville in the Fall of 1878, and opened a boot
and shoe shop, doing only custom work. In 1881 he built the store building in which his business is now located, and put ina general stock of boots and shoes.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 273.)
ELLISON MILLIGAN was born in the Province of Ontario, and came to Alcona County in 1867; lived in Alcona Township and worked at lumbering for James Beard & Co., and at farming. He was elected supervisor in 1881 and 1883 and also to the office of township clerk and justice of the peace two terms, and district deputy of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F., of Alcona Lodge No. 322.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 277-278)
D. W. Mitchell, M.D. is a native of Canada and the leading physician of Alcona County. He was educated at Victoria College and Trinity University, Toronto, and graduated from the latter in the Spring of 1873. The following Summer he located in Harrisville. He received the thorough training of Canadian schools, and entered upon his practice well equipped for its varied requirements. He has been a successful practitioner and occupies a prominent position in the profession. He has been the county physician for three years.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 273.)
H. R. MORRISON, dealer in dry goods, groceries, etc., at Harrisville, is a native of Scotland, and emigrated to Canada in 1854. In 1874 he went to Bay City and the following year to Alpena. He is a machinist by trade, and was superintendent of sawmills at Alpena. In 1878 he was in Harrisville on some business, and while here, the store building, which he now occupies was sold at sheriff’s sale. he made a bid on the property, and being a stranger, rather roughly dressed, it was taken rather as a joke and the property “knocked down” to him. he was prepared, however, and took possession of his purchase. In the Spring of 1879 he removed to Harrisville and opened a store. He has a very neat brick cottage adjoining the store, which he built in 1882, doing most of the work himself. He has a wife, but no children. Mr. Morrison is one of the enterprising and liberal men of the village. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Honor societies.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 273.)
D. B. MUDGETT, one of the leading citizens of Alcona County, is a native of New Hampshire and was born in the year 1839. His parents moved to the State of New York, where he lived until the breaking out of the war. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company F., Thirty-Fourth Regiment New York Volunteers, and was in the service three years. During a portion of that time he was an
inmate of Libby prison, and experienced its severest hardships and cruelties. Few survivors know better what was endured there than he. In 1867 he made up his mind to go West and make a home, and he came with his family to Harrisville. He had a team of no great value, and was engaged in jobbing and whatever he could find to do. In 1869 he purchased 280 acres of land about three miles from the village of Harrisville and began to carve out a fortune. He was heavily in debt, but his operations both in farming and
lumbering were successful, and many years had not passed until he had attained a position of independence. He now has 200 acres of land under cultivation, fine buildings and the finest farm on the shore. He is still engaged in lumbering. He has a wife and four children. Two children have been taken from them by death. No man on the Shore sustains a better reputation in all his movements, but is liberal and enterprising in every measure that is calculated to be of benefit. In all that he does he aims to the best, as is attested by his lumbering equipment, stock and farm.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 276)
DAVID MULHOLLAND is a native of County of Derry, old Ireland and a descendant of the sect of Mulhollandites, who were the first dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church. Enlisted in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, in 1861 for three years, or, during the war, in the One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was in Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and the Peninsula Campaign, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg; was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness through both hips, but was able to witness the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Came to Alcona County in 1868 and was elected township clerk of Alcona Township nine successive years, and justice of the peace eleven years, and superintendent of the poor five years. He is engaged at farming.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 277-278)
ALEXANDER NEILSON was born in Canada in 1850, and came to Michigan in 1873, and Alcona County in 1879, and engaged with Alger, Smith & Co., at blacksmithing. His work is in the woods, and includes everything from a horse-nail to an ox-chain.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 279)
DAVID NEVIN, lumberman and farmer, was born in the city of Toronto, Canada, in October 1832. In 1865 he came to Alcona County and worked at lumbering by the month. He then went at jobbing, and has followed it to the present time. After settling here he purchased 160 acres of land in Section 22, Harrisville Township, situated about three-fourths of a mile from the Lake. This land Mr. Nevin cleared and has converted into one of the finest farms in the county. He also has eighty acres of land in Section 20, besides a large amount of wild land. Mr. Nevin has a wife and eight children. He is a liberal and enterprising man.
(Bibliography: “History of the Lake Huron Shore and Its People with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Pioneers”, 1883, Chicago, Page 277)