"Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon." Authors: "a
compilation of this work....by a number of writers".  Chapman Publishing Co;
Chicago, 1903. p. 645.
 
A. W. MILLN
 
     The head miller of the Imperial mill at Oregon City, owned by the Portland
Flouring Mill Company, has had an extended experience in his chosen occupation,
and is accounted one of the most expert in his line in Clackamas county. He
began to learn the trade in 1876, with Miller, Marshall & Co., under John
Humphrey, head miller, and remained with this mill during the ownership and
management of Sibson, Church & Co. and Ladd & Co. and has been with them almost
incessantly up to the present time. In 1897 he assumed control of the Portland
Flouring Mill Company's mil!, which has a capacity of seven hundred barrels a
day, and is one of the best equipped concerns of the kind in the county.
     As his name implies, Mr. Milln is of Scotch ancestry, his paternal
grandfather having emigrated from Scotland and settled in Ontario, Canada.  The
latter's son, William Maitland Milln, was also a native of Scotland, and upon
emigrating to this country became identified with her business interests. As a
member of the firm of Milne & Milln, builders and contractors, and
superintendent of the Canada Marine Works Montreal, he carried on business in
Canada until 1862, when he removed to Rock county, Wis., there engaging in the
manufacture of agricultural implements. From the Wisconsin city he went to St.
Louis, Mo., where he was employed as agricultural implement salesman, and thence
went to Ft. Scott, Kans., where the remainder of his life was spent, engaged in
the same line of endeavor. His wife, Marion (Erwin) Milln was born on the line
between France and Spain and was reared on the isle of Corfu. She was a daughter
of Colonel Erwin, an English officer who, after his retirement from the office,
took up a grant of land near London, Canada.  Mrs. Milln, who died in Wisconsin,
was the mother of four children, of whom Alfred J. is a miller for the Portland
Flouring Mill Company at Albany.  Annie is a resident of Missouri, as is also
Charlotte; and A. W., the youngest of the family, was born in Montreal, Canada.
     Until 1862 Mr. Milln lived in Brockville, Canada, where he attended the
public schools, continuing the same instruction after the family removal to
Janesville. Wis. From the latter place he went to Missouri, and in 1868 to
Kansas in which year his father's death occurred. In Girard, Kans., he learned
the printer's trade, and for three years was employed by the Press. Warner &
Wasser, editors and publishers, of that town. In the fall of 1872 he removed to
Oregon City, where his brother, A. J., lived at the time, and where for a short
time he worked as a printer.   In 1873 he took up the milling business as
heretofore stated, and to this livelihood he has since given his attention.
     In Oregon City Mr. Milln was united in marriage to A. Alice McDonald, born
in this city,  and whose parents were early Oregon pioneers.  Two children have
been born to Mr. and Mrs. Milln, Ralph S. and A. Raymond. Mr. Milln is
fraternally connected with the Woodmen of the World, and politically is liberal
in his views.  For two years he served the community as councilman of the second
ward, where the family has resided for so many years, and its members are well
and favorably known.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2007 by Diana Smith.
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