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From Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905), Portrait and biographical album of Des Moines County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county .. (1888)
RANK MILLARD, a prominent lumber merchant of Burlington for over twenty-one ills years, and President of the Cascade Lumber Company, is a native of Hampton, Washington Co., N. Y., born Oct. 7, 1831. His father, Ashley R. Millard, was a native of Rhode Island, and a cousin of President Millard Fillmore, whose mother was a daughter of Dr. Abialha Millard, of Pittsfleld, Mass., a sister of the grandfather of our subject. The maiden name of Mr. Millard's mother was Miss Polly Peck, whose family was originally from Connecticut, where they were well-connected and highly esteemed.
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As printed in Portrait and biographical album of Des Moines County, Iowa, containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county .. (1888). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
FRANK MILLARD.
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Frank milliard spent his early life upon a farm in 'washington county. New York, andere his removal to the West he was married, in Warsaw, N. Y., in 1862, to Miss Annie I. Catlett, a daughter of Bradley S. Catlett. Three children were born of this union, two sons and a daughter. Courtney, Homer, and Emma.
In 1864 Mr. Millard arrived in Iowa, locating in Burlington, where he engaged in the lumber business in company with his brother George, and William F. Thomp.son, under the name of Frank Millard & Company. This connection was continued until 1879, when Mr. Millard sold his interest and engaged in the paint and oil trade, which he carried on until 1881, when he purchased the interest of Gilbert, Hedge & Companw in the Cascade Lumber Company, and was elected president of the organization. This company was formed in April, 1880, the incorporators being Gilbert, Hedge & Company, W. S. Berry, H. H. Gilman, and Charles Putnam. Thomas Hedge, Sr.. was elected president; John Gilbert, vice-president: and Charles Putnam, secretary. 'J"he business was first established and the mill placed in operation by the firm of Berry & Gilman in 1876, and in J 878 A. Kaiser was admitted to a partnership, the firm of Kaiser & Berry continuing the business until 1880. when the Cascade Company was organized and succeeded to the business, the owners being Gilbert, Hedge & Comjiany until 1881, when Mr. Millard bought them out. He was elected president and treasurer, with W. S. Berry as vice-president, and R. G. Saundcrson as secretary. These gentlemen, with H. H. Gilman. Charles Putnam, and the liurlington Insurance Company, are the stockholders. The mill was situated on the Mississippi River, near the southern limits of the city, at the foot of the bluff of Crapo Park, at what is known as Cascade, on the Keokuk branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Ouincy Railroad. Employment was furnished to from fifty to sixty hands, and the annual capacity was seven million feet of lumber. Mr. Millard continued with the Cascade Lumber Company until the i)lant was destroyed by fire in 1896. Later he became identified with J. D. Harmer & Company, who operated a lumber and planing mill, and manufactured sash and doors, acting as manager of the business, and largely furnishing the funds necessary for the conduct of the enterprise. When the business failed.some months after, Mr. Millard having withdrawn therefrom, he was appointed receiver for the bondholders, and the business was sold.
since which time he has lived a retired life. The Prank Millard Company was organized in 1 901 for the purpose of conducting a wholesale and retail business in lime and cement. A. A. McArthur, son-in-law of Mr. Millard, being the active manager, the latter partner being only financially interested.
In 1868 Mr. Millard was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife, who died at her father's house in Warsaw, N. V. In 1871, at Galesburg, Ill., he married Miss Ella Blannerhasset Hewson, a daughter of Prancis D. Hewson, of Toronto, Canada. At the summit of one of the highest bluffs along the Mississippi River, just opposite and above the Iowa approach to the Chicago. luirlington & Quincy Railroad bridge, stands the Millard residence, from whose windows there can be obtained magnificent views of a most attractive landscape, overlooking the commercial center of Burlington, as well as many of its homes, the Union depot with its outgoing and incoming trains, and the broad river, with its freight and passenger boats and pleasure craft, and is one of the finest homes of the city.
In politics always a stanch Democrat, he has often been urged to accept a nomination for alderman, or for the mayoralty, hut lias always declined; yet for a number of years he has been a member of the board of education, the public-school system having in him a strong champion.
As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Frank Millard: George B. P. Carpenter Frederick Julius
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