James P. McMillin

    James P. McMillin, of Chattanooga, was born on Lookout Moun­tain in 1856, and is a son of the late Jonathan P. McMillin, who was a well known and prominent citizen of Chattanooga. He died in that city in 1882. Our subject was reared to manhood in Chattanooga, and educated at Emory and Henry College, Virginia. In 1876 he engaged in the general insurance and real estate agency business, in which he has remained continuously ever since, with excellent success. He also engaged in the drug business for four years of this time. In 1881 he married Miss Lizzie Armstrong, of Knoxville, who bore him two children -one son and one daughter. He is a Democrat in politics, a Royal Arcanum, and a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887