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ANDREW McMILLAN, farmer, P. O. White Ash, was born in the parish of Ballarona, County Down, Ireland, in 1851. His parents, Andrew and Margaret (Hart) McMillan, are still living there. They reared a family of nine sons, all of whom received a good education. Two are in Ireland, one of whom is practicing medicine in Belfast; two reside in Australia, three in America, and two are deceased. Andrew is the third son, and in 1869, being then eighteen years old, he emigrated to America to make his fortune, and by working his own way has nearly accomplished the mission. For four years he weighed coal at the Armstrong mines, spent a year in a commission-store at Pittsburgh, and a year with the N. Y. & C. Gas-coal company. He managed a store for Armstrong, Dickson & Co., and after a visit to his native home, in 1877, conducted a store three years for the Standard Oil company. In 1882 he bought a farm of 100 acres situated near the Pittsburgh line, which he is engaged in managing. He has always been a republican, and in religion favors the U. P. Church. In 1882 he married Emma Kane, an ambitious young lady, who won her education mainly through her own efforts, preparatory to teaching school, previous to her marriage, her mother having died when she was but three years old. She is a daughter of Charles and Catharine (Kemaley) Kane, of Allegheny county, Pa., now residing in Plum, where Mrs. McMillan was born. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Millan’s children are William Eugene, John Andrew and Floyd Othello.