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THOMAS A. MILLAR, broker, McKeesport, was born in Baltimore, Md., February 5, 1832, son of Alexander and Amelia I. (Coal) Millar. His paternal grandfather, Alexander Millar, a native of Ireland, settled in Philadelphia at an early day, and was a son of Alexander Millar, whose father came from the Netherlands to Ireland with the Prince of Orange. On his maternal side Mr. Millar is of Scotch descent. His parents settled in Pittsburgh in 1833, where for a time his father was engaged as clerk for Robert Galloway, a grocery man, and later for Robinson & Minis; he was for ten years alderman in that city. In 1848 he came to McKeesport, and engaged in the coal business, and was one of the largest coal-operators in the city until the outbreak of the war. He served two terms in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was a director of the first railroad built in McKeesport, now the Baltimore & Ohio. He was father of five children: Alexander, William J., Samuel A., Thomas A., and Alfred B., who died in infancy. Our subject was reared and educated in Pittsburgh, settled in McKeesport in 1848, and embarked in the coal business, with which he was connected ten years, and twelve years afterward was engaged in stock-farming in Missouri, since when he has resided at McKeesport, and for two years has followed his present business. Mr. Millar married, in 1859, Olie F., daughter of Hiram B. and Sarah J. (Cunningham) Sinclair, of McKeesport, and by her has six children: Harry S., Virginia M. (Mrs. N. G. Ransom), Sarah J. (Mrs. S. G. Miller), Anna M., Charles A. and Alfred B. Mr. Millar has held many local offices in the borough; in politics he is a democrat.