Morrison McMillan was son of John McMillan and 2/wife Rachel Agnes Morrison. He married 1/w Clarissa Brown d/o Ezra Brown and Elizabeth Newell 15 Feb. 1821 Huron Co., Ohio. Book "McMillan Genealogy & History" by W.F. McMillan and C.E. McMillan (1908) pg.95-96 says married 1820 Seneca Co., OH. They had 13 children. After her death he married a 2nd time to Mrs. Rebecca (Childs) Chapman 24 June 1858 LaCrosse, LaCrosse Co., WI. She was daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Childs.
He was a farmer by occupation and credited with founding three Masonic Lodges in early 1850-1860 Wisconsin in three different counties. They are Union Lodge No.32, Janesville, Rock Co. founded 8 Dec 1850; Frontier Lodge No. 45, 16 June 1853 of LaCrosse, WI.; and Valley Lodge No. 60, 17 Aug. 1854, Sparta, Monroe County, WI. All Charters granted under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin.
He moved with his father John McMillan in 1821 to Huron Co., Ohio where he met and married Clarissa Brown d/o Ezra Brown and Elizabeth Newell Brown. The McMillan's moved next to Seneca Co., Ohio where Morrison McMillan was first constable of Scipio Township. In 1831 they moved to Milton Twp., Wood Co., Ohio and in 1848 to Leyden, Rock Co., WI., where Morrison McMillan's cousin Benjamin Sill McMillan and wife, Achsah "Axy" (Brown) McMillan,
Clarissa's sister, Achsah and Benjamin Sill McMillan owned a Hotel and Stage Coach stop.
They had twelve children: Rachel, John, Orlando, Charlotte, Jane Agnes, Matilda C., Morrison Jr., Sarah B., Daniel, child name unknown, Mary and Amanda McMillan.
After founding the Union Lodge in Janesville, the McMillan family again moved to the LaCrosse-Monroe Co., area settling on a farm in Sparta. Besides founding three Masonic Lodges, Morrison was Chairman, Select Committee of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin in 1853 and was Grand Lecturer under the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin in 1854, and founder of Sparta Chapter No. 19, Royal Arch Masons, and its first Excellent High Priest in 1859. When he died in 1860 he was given full Masonic Honors.

Do not make error of putting 2/wife Rebecca Childs Sabin
first name on 1/w Clarissa Brown. Many people in Ancestry.com/Public Members have put Rebecca as a first name onto Clarissa Brown. Please correct.

After death of Clarissa Brown McMillan, Morrison McMillan
married widow Rebecca (Childs) Chapman on 14 June 1858
LaCrosse, LaCrosse Co., WI. See 1860 Federal Census Sparta, Monroe Co. Wisconsin. This is where I think many Ancestry.com members think that Clarissa Brown McMillan still alive by 1860 and that is she. NOT so, this is his 2nd wife Rebecca (Childs) Chapman, McMillan who then after Morrison McMillan's death remarries to a Hiram H. Sabin.



Federal Census
1840 Milton, Wood Co., Ohio
Morrison McMillan and family members
1850 Morrison McMillan moving around in Wisconsin
setting up Masonic Lodges.
His wife Clarissa (Brown) McMillan and son John McMillan
living with Benj McMillan and Axy (Acsah) Brown McMillan
Janesville (West side of Rock River) Rock Co., WI.
Benjamin McMillan was 1st cousin to Morrison McMillan
1860 Sparta, Monroe Co., Wisconsin
R. C. McMillan
R. S. Chapman
Mary McMillan
R. C. Crockston
Both 1st wife Clarissa died 1857 and Morrison McMillan dead by Feb 1860
and Rebecca (Childs) Chapman married only 3 years before Morrison
McMillan passed away from heart attack.

Rebecca (Childs) Chapman, McMillan remarried 17 Mar. 1877 to Hiram Horace Sabin. See publication in Sparta newspaper in Morrison McMillan's other photographs.