Hugh McMillan

GEDCOM Note

<img src="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~floyer/jpegs/16774.jpg" align="right" width="202" height="288" style="margin:10px 10px" alt="Hugh McMillan"> According to notes from Alice Adeline Ransom, "Hugh McMillan, K.C. ... was a lawyer in Guelph, then a judge in Peterborough, Ont." The following account from Priestner's Home Page (defunct webpage as of Jan 2003) seem to match:

Hugh McMillan, Erin Twp, Wellington Co, Ontario

From the "Biographical sketches" Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario, compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys. Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co, 1906, reprint 1972.

McMILLAN, Hugh, was appointed Judge of the County Court of the county of Victoria on the 3rd of February, 1906. Judge McMillan is one of the sons of the late Hugh McMillan, of the township of Erin, who emigrated from Scotland with his father, the late Donald McMillan, and settled in Erin in the early twenties. The subject of this sketch was born in Erin in 1849, and after twenty years on the farm, attended Rockwood Academy, and subsequently taught school for a couple of years in Erin. After spending several years in commercial pursuits, he took his law matriculation work at the Guelph Collegiate Institute, and in 1877, entered the law office of Dunbar & Johnston, and afterwards with Johnston & McKinnon, till he took his final examinations at Osgoode Hall in 1882.

On his own account, in partnership with the late G. W. Field, and since 1897, with C. L. Dunbar, under the firm name of McMillan & Dunbar, built up a large and successful law practice.

Judge McMillan was for twelve years Secretary of the South Wellington Reform Association, and for six years its President. In 1882, he was appointed by the Guelph City Council to the Board of Education, as one of the Collegiate Institute Trustees. He has served in that capacity continuously during that time, and was for two years Chairman of the Board.