Alexander Copeland Millar

Background

Millar, Alexander Copeland was born on May 17, 1861 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William John and Ellen (Caven) Millar.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Central College Missouri, 1885, A.M., 1889. (Doctor of Divinity, Wesleyan College, Winchester, Kentucky, 1907. Doctor of Laws, University of Arkansas, 1922).

Career

Ordained Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ministry, 1888. Professor of English and German, Grove’s High School, Dallas, Texas, 1885-1886. President and professor Latin and philosophy, Neosho (Missouri) Collegiate Institute, 1886-1887.

President Central Collegiate Institute, Altus, Arkansas (which later moved to Conway, Arkansas, and became llendrix College), 1887-1902. Professor of history and economics, Central College, 1902-1904. Presiding elder Little Rock district, 1906-1910.

President Hendrix College (2d time), 1910-1913. President Oklahoma Methodist College, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1913-1914. Associate editor Western Methodist (now the Arkansas Methodist), 1904-1914, and editor-in-chief, since 1914.

Presiding elder of the Arkadelphia District, 1932. Head of the good roads movement which resulted in the adoption, 1899, of an amendment to Constitution of Arkansas, authorizing counties to levy road tax. Led movement to secure legislation regulating college charters and degrees.

Delaware Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions. Member General Board of Education of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1898-1902, Education Commission, 1903-1906. Member Arkansas History Commission, 1909-1913 and since 1927.

Special investigation of Arkansas Penitentiary, 1908. Delaware General Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, 5 times to 1930. Secretary Arkansas Honorary Forestry Commission, since 1924.

President Arkansas Anti-Saloon League, since 1923. President Western Methodist Assembly, Fayetteville, 1922-1923, vice president, since 1933. Vice president Judicial Council (Supreme Court) Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1934-1939.

Reserve member Judicial Council Methodist Church, since 1939. Author: Twentieth Century Educational Problems, 1901. (poem) Together? Yes, Together (a response to the English laureate’s “Together”).

(song) My Own Loved Arkansas (adopted by State Teachers’ Association for use in the public schools). Words and music of song, America, Our Fatherland, 1937. Home: Little Rock, Ark.

Membership

Member General Board of Education of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1898-1902, Education Commission, 1903-1906. Member Arkansas History Commission, 1909-1913 and since 1927.

Connections

Married Elizabeth Harwood, June 27, 1887 (died May 22, 1924).; married second, Susie McKinnon, October 15, 1925. Children: Ethel Key, Paul Harwood, George, Dana.

Father:

William John Millar

Mother:

Ellen (Caven) Millar

Spouse:

Elizabeth Harwood

Spouse:

Susie McKinnon

child:

Dana Millar

child:

George Millar

child:

Paul Harwood Millar

child:

Ethel Key Millar