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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 629-630]

    JOHN S. MILLARD represents the farming interests of a much respected
    gentleman who was formerly a citizen of Cherokee County, Mr. JOHN C.
    BROUGHAM.  He is a man of large and favorable acquaintance in the
    county, and conducted an extensive business while residing here.  Mr.
    MILLARD controls over 1,000 acres of farming land and pasture, in-
    cluding the well-known farm upon which Mr. BROUGHAM made his home.
    JOHN S. MILLARD was born near Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, February
    15, 1846, and is a son of JOHN and SARAH (STROMINGER) MILLARD, also
    natives of Pennsylvania.  His father died in 1875, but his mother
    is still living in York County, Pennsylvania, at the ripe old age
    of eighty years.  JOHN remained at home until he had reached his
    majority.  Although employed by different parties, he ever called
    the old place "home."  Mr. MILLARD was united in marriage July 7,
    1871, in York County, Pennsylvania, to Miss MARY E. COCKLIN, a native
    of Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of PETER and LOVINA
    COCKLIN.  She was born August 25, 1854.  After his marriage Mr.
    MILLARD worked at the forge as hammerman in the Penn Steel Works
    at Steelton, Pennsylvania.  His father-in-law becoming interested
    in the Halbach Hotel, a noted summer resort a few miles from Harris-
    burgh, he worked for him in the hostelry one season, and then rented
    a farm and engaged in agriculture for three years.  In February, 1883,
    he came to Iowa, and his first employer was Mr. BROUGHAM, for whom he
    and his wife worked for nearly two years.  Since that time he has
    rented Mr. BROUGHAM'S farm, and does an extensive business.  He keeps
    250 head of cattle, feeds about 100 hogs, and breeds Norman and Morgan
    horses, having about thirty head.  Mr. and Mrs. MILLARD have one
    child, PETER CAREY, born June 30, 1876.  Mr. BROUGHAM, now a resident
    of London, is kindly remembered by all who came in contact with him
    while he personally had charge of his farm in this county.  He could
    not have been more fortunate in getting a man to care for his inte-
    rests in his absence than he has been in securing the services of Mr.
    MILLARD, who stands in the highest estimation of his neighbors and
    business associates.  Politically he affiliates with the Democratic
    party.


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