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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of George A. MILLARD 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: LONG, MILLARD, SMITH] 

[Page 995] 

    
MILLARD, George A., who is engaged in farming on his birthplace, on the homestead where his father followed the same occupation, and in the township where his grandfather also was a tiller of the soil, was born in Cass Township, Fulton County, Ill., in 1864, a son of George and Margaret (Smith) Millard. The father was a native of Fulton County and the mother of the State of Ohio. Grandfather Levi Millard, who was born in Rhode Island, came to Fulton County at an early day and followed agricultural pursuits. 
    
George Millard bought the 160-acre farm where his son, George A., now lives, for $500. All the improvements on the place were made by him. 
    
The subject of this sketch is one of a family of nine children, five of whom are living. In boyhood he was a pupil in the district schools of Cass Township, and spent his early youth in assisting his father on the home farm. He has always lived on this farm, although he owns 300 acres more on Sections 35 and 36 of the same township, most of which he farms personally. He also raises considerable stock. 
    
In 1887 Mr. Millard was joined in wedlock with Ella Long, who was born and schooled in Cass Township. Three children were the offspring of this union, namely: Minnie, Lottie, and Jessie.