History of McKeesport, (Allegheny County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Alexander Copeland Millar, minister and educator, was born in McKeesport, Pa., May 17, 1861; son of William John and Ellen (Caven) Millar; grandson of Alexander and Amelia (Coale) Millar and of William and Jane (Langhead) Caven, and a descendant of John Miller, who came from Ireland and settled in Chester, Pa., about 1798. He removed with his parents to Missouri in 1867 and was graduated from Central college, Fayette, Mo., A.B., 1885, A.M., 1889. He taught in public schools and in Brookfield academy; was professor of English and German at Grove's high school, Dallas, Texas, 1885; professor and president of Neosho Collegiate institute, Missouri, 1886; and was elected president of Central Collegiate institute, Altus, Ark., in 1887, which afterward moved to Conway, Ark., and became Hendrix college and over which he retained the presidency. He was married, June 27, 1887, to Elizabeth Frances Harwood. He was ordained to the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1888. He was at the head of the movement for good roads in Arkansas, which resulted in a county road tax in 1889, and he led the movement to secure legislation regulating the bestowal of college charters and degrees. He was a delegate to the Ecumenical conference on foreign missions; presiding elder of Morrilton district, 1899, and became a member of the general board of education, M. E. Church, south, in 1898. He is the author of Twentieth Century Educational Problems (1901).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of McKeesport, (Allegheny County) Pennsylvania

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