Leonard Millar

As printed in 1906

CEONARD MILLAR, who resides on his valuable farm three-quarters of a mile west of South Bloomfield, in Harrison township, has lived continuously on his present homestead for a period of 26 years. His place is a part of the estate of William Millar, his maternal grandfather, and is cultivated on thorough and scientific.

principles, being therefore both attractive and productive. Mr. Millar was born in Harrison township, Pickaway County, Ohio, April 1, 1854, and is a son of Isaac D. and Sarah Ann (Millar) Millar.

The branch of the Millar family to which our subject belongs is of old Virginia stock, and the early ancestors held various grants from the British crown. Members of the family commenced to migrate to Ohio about 1803, soon after its admission to the Union.

Isaac Millar, the great-grand father of our subject, was born February 9, 1749, married Elizabeth Sea. on October 28, 1777, and died January 23, 1815, in the 66th year of his age. His wife, who was born August 15, 1756, died April 14, 1794. Their children were as follows: William, born August 6, 1788; Catherine, born February 19, 1780; Rebecca,.born February 3, 1783; Michael, born March 30, 1785; Isaac, born December 6, 1787; Elizabeth, born February 4, 1790: and Adam, our subject’s grandfather. William, the oldest child, married Mary Sudduth and they had the following family: Elizabeth, born May 2, 1809: George Washington, born February 5, 1811; Isaac, born January 28. 1813: Adam, born March 15, 1815; Sarah Ann (mother of our subject), born April 24. 1817; Lucinda, born December 12, 1819; William A. P., born November 17, 1824; and Mary Catherine, born April 23. 1830.

Adam Millar, the paternal grandfather of Leonard Millar, was born March 24, 1792, and died March 28. 1824. He married Rebecca Decker and to them were born two sons: Isaac D., our subject’s father; and John, who died in young manhood.

Isaac D. Millar, the father, was born March 18, 1822, and on February 22. 1844. married Sarah* Ann Millar, daughter of William and Mary (Sudduth) Millar. The seven children born to their union were: John D., born December 6, 1844. who died March 28, 1860: William, bom April 28, 1847, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work; Mary Rebecca, born September 6, 1850, wife of Hon. Thaddeus E. Cromley; Leonard, of this sketch

Isaac M. and Adam P. (twins), born March 21, 1857, the former deceased February 3, 1860, and the latter, March 26, 1886; and Annie L., who married F. S. Chryst, a lawyer of Warren, Ohio, and present probate judge of Trumbull County — Mrs. Chryst died March 25, 1901, leaving two daughters, Blanche E. and Sarah M. The death of Isaac D. Millar took place October 21, 1867; he was survived many years by his wife, who lived to the age of 83 years, dying on June 27, 1900.

Leonard Millar obtained what education he could in the South Bloomfield school, and after leaving school commenced his life work of farming upon the family homestead. On the loth of October, 1888, he was united in marriage to Lida Grace Stimmel, daughter of Peter and Catherine Stimmel, of Franklin County, Ohio. Mrs. Millar's father died when she was about six years of age; her mother is now a resident of Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Millar have two sons: Earle William, born August 8, 1889, who is a student at the Ashville High School; and Benford S., who is attending the district school at South Bloomfield.

Mrs. Leonard Millar, the wife of our subject, is a capable, well-educated woman. After finishing the common-school work, she spent three years in the completion of a thorough business course, which was afterward supplemented by a special training in stenography. She is of German ancestry, the first of her family to come to the United States being Yost Stimmel. This ancestor of the American branch was torn in 1756, and his wife, Hannah Magdalene Stocker, four years afterward. The family located in Frederick County, Maryland, where Mr. Stimmel resided and cultivated his farm, dying in 1805 and being buried on the family homestead.

Michael Stimmel, the great-grandfather of Mrs., Millar, was torn in Frederick County, Maryland, and died in 1859. On March 3, 1790, he was married to Catherine Plum, torn in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia), March 3, 1790, who. passed away in 1872, at the age of 82.

Peter Stimmel, the grandfather, was a native of Frederick County, Maryland, born in 1788. He married Elizabeth Landes, daughter of Samuel Landes, of Hamilton township. Franklin County, Ohio, and resided on the Landes homestead, one mile north of Lockbourne. Their family consisted of the following members: John, Jacob, Samuel, Mary, Peter, Hannah, Michael and Lydia. Peter Stimmel died in 1844, aged 55 years, and his widow survived him until 1855, when she died at the age of 63.

Peter Stimmel, the fifth child of this family, was the father of Mrs. Leonard Millar. He was born at Lockbourne, Franklin County, Ohio, July 17, 1824, but from the age of five years until his death, February 28, 1874, was a resident of Shadeville, Franklin County, engaged at various times as a merchant and a grain dealer. He was also the owner of a farm, and a man of good standing and circumstances. His wife. Catherine Jlulva. was born near Groveport. Franklin County. Ohio. January 3, 1837, and, as stated, resides in Columbus, where she is a nurse. Besides Mrs. Leonard Millar, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stimmel were Henry Landes, Carrie A.. Arabella H., Efiie G. and Earl H. Henry Landes Stimmel. the oldest brother of Mrs. Millar, is a traveling man, residing at Decatur, Illinois.

As printed in History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.