(20 Nov. 1886-11 Nov. 1970), university teacher. (John D. Macmillan) Born in Ontario, probably in Stormont County. Parents: John J. MacMillan and his wife Catherine Sutherland, who in their later years lived in Maxville. John D. Macmillan attended Alexandria High School. He received his B. A. from Queen’s University 1910, was a graduate student at the University of Toronto 1912-1913, and got his M. A. from the University of Chicago 1914. During the period 1914 to 1920, he taught at Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich., State College for Women, Greensboro, N. C., and State College for Women, Denton, Texas; then from 1920 till his retirement in June 1952, he taught at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now a part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Penn., where he had the rank first of assistant professor of English and afterwards of associate professor of English. At the 75th anniversary celebrations at the Gordon Church, St. Elmo, on 20 and 23 July 1939, he and his niece Catherine MacRae were the organists. (Glengarry News 28 July 1939) He was an Episcopalian. He died in Pittsburgh, and was apparently unmarried. His brother the Rev. Angus George MacMillan, a Presbyterian minister, died on 8 Jan. 1929 in Brandon, Manitoba, cut off after only five years in the ministry. Their sister was the wife of Norman F. MacRae.

Maxville (1991) 746 * information from archives of Carnegie-Mellon University (his faculty file, with portrait) and Queen's University Archives * progress of his academic career, vacations in Maxville, Glengarry News 11 Sept. 1914, 21 Sept. 1923, 27 May 1927, 22 June 1934, Standard Freeholder 20 June 1934 * NUC(Pre-1956) 353:195, lists him as author of a typewritten thesis, University of Chicago, “Social Criticism in the Twentieth-Century Novel” (1914) * obituaries of his father and Rev. Angus George MacMillan, Cornwall Standard 3 Dec. 1925, Cornwall Freeholder 26 Jan. 1929, The Acts and Proceedings of the… General Assembly (1929) 289