as well as Covenanting principles, migrated to Ohio, accompanied by all but three families of the Church of which he was pastor. This bit of history is recorded, that the descendants of Hugh McMillan may know that their forebears were men of strong convictions and of strict principles, bold and resolute in what they thought to be right. the McMillans in ohio We have come to the part of this story which will doubtless be of the greatest interest to the majority of those now living, as this part of the narrative deals with the McMillans about whom we know most. It is here, too, our branch of the family has had its longest residence and experienced its largest growth, and where apart from the initial work done by John MacMillan in establishing the Reformed Presbyterian Church, has probably done more in the propagation of those principles than any other branch of this particular church. This is said in spite of the fact that today in Greene County, Ohio, not a single congregation of the church which John MacMillan founded still exists. Yet during the hundred years it did flourish, it was the leading church in this section of the state, with strong churches in Xenia, Cedarville, with Cedarville College and Seminary, in which scores of ministers were trained, who have taken prominent places in almost every Presbyterian and Reformed denomination in the land, and have contributed in perpetuating all of those traditions and principles which our family from the beginning has been conspicuous in preserving. The influence of this family, and the families which have been associated with it by marriage, has been summed up by Rev. J. H. Cooper in his Handbook on the McMillans, who in writing his sketch on the Rev. Hugh McMillan who brought this family to Greene County in 1828, has significantly said: “Then (1828) Greene County was a wilderness; now (1907) it is one of the wealthiest and most flourishing communities in Ohio, and much of its prosperity is due to the McMillan family.” AN APPRECIATION Since this is primarily a family history, for the sake of those who are now living, and for those who will come after, it is ap14
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