History of Michigan, / by Charles Moore. [Vol. 3]

HISTORY OF MICHIGAN

1579

personal preferment in the public arena, but at all times showed himself
a good and public-spirited citizen, and won the respect and confidence of
those with whom he came into contact in any way. He was a consistent
member of the Baptist church and was active in its work in Berrien
county, where his entire life was passed. Mr. Millar married Miss
Almena Wood, who was born in I83I, and who is still living. They
became the parents of ten children, six of whom are still living, and
Frank E. is the youngest. Edson Wood, the maternal grandfather of
Mr. Millar, was born in New York state, where he was married to
Elizabeth Lambert, who was a niece of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. After their marriage they went to Ohio, and later came
to Michigan, where the grandfather was engaged in farming until his
death, in I888, when he was eighty-one years of age.
Frank E. Millar grew up on his father's farm and received his early
education in the public schools. He early gave evidence of a predilection
for teaching, but found his resources insufficient to provide him with a
collegiate course, and accordingly secured a certificate and began teaching
in the district schools in the county. Thus he secured the necessary
funds to take him through Kalamazoo College and the University of
Chicago, and after his graduation from the latter institution, in I901, he
began his real career as a teacher in the high school at Council Bluffs,
Iowa. In I903 Mr. Millar was appointed principal of the high school
at Ludington and came to this city, where he remained for three years,
then returning to Iowa and remaining two years as principal of the high
school at Clinton. Again, in I908, he came to Ludington, this time as
superintendent of all the city schools, a position which he has continued
to fill with great success to the present time. There are now seven schools
under his supervision, with an enrollment (in I914) of I,700 pupils, and
Mr. Millar is forced to devote his entire time to his duties. The educator
of today is called upon to meet and overcome many obstacles of which
those of a past generation knew nothing. The enlarging of the curriculum of the public schools, with the demand for the practice of pedagogy,
necessitates a long and careful training and constant subsequent study
and reading on the part of those to whom is entrusted the training of the
plastic mind of youth. Popular demand has resulted in the production of
such men as Mr. Millar, whose knowledge of their work and matters in
general is extensive and profound, and who at the same time possess
sound judgment and a keen insight into human nature that makes it
possible for them to give to each pupil the individual attention now
regarded as so necessary for the proper rounding out and developing of
character.
Mr. Millar was married in I903 to Miss Jessie Hope Wallace, of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and four children have been born to this union:
Miriam and Hope, who are attending the public schools; and Frank E.,
Jr., and Ansel Wallace, who are still too young to be scholars. Mr. and
Mrs. Millar are consistent members of the Presbyterian church. In
politics he taken an independent stand, voting rather for the man he considers best fitted for the office than for the party. His fraternal affiliation
is with the Knights of Pythias, in which he has numerous friends, as he
has in all walks of life.
ORLANDO MONTGOMERY STEPHENSON, M. D. One of the oldest physicians in point of residence at Port Huron is Dr. Stephenson, who for a
period of more than thirty years has practiced and given his capable
services to the community in and about that city. Few members of the
profession have been better prepared by the varied experience for successful private practice than Dr. Stephenson. In this time he has done a great