William McMillan (congressman)

William McMillan (March 2, 1764 – May, 1804) was a lawyer, Judge, County Commissioner, and Delegate to the 6th United States Congress from the Northwest Territory.

[1][b] His parents were Mary Leeper and William McMillan (died 1810),[2][c] who is of Scottish-Irish heritage and emigrated to the colonies from Ireland before 1775.

The land was located in Knox County, Tennessee, from what is now Chilhowee Park to the Wooddale area, where he built a house.

[2] He studied higher philosophy and exact sciences at College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1775.

[6] He read about John Cleves Symmes’s Trenton Prospectus about the Northwest Territory and decided to purchase a lot between the Little and Great Miami Rivers.

Originally named, Losantiville, the town was laid out by Ludlow and McMillan and other men built three or four log cabins along the Ohio River on Front Street.

[7] That year, McMillan received life-long injuries after four soldiers burst into his cabin on Front Street.

[10] McMillan served with Captain Robert Benham as Hamilton County Commissioners before both[citation needed] were elected to the Territorial House of Representatives in 1799 and 1800.

He was elected to the Sixth Congress[5] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Harrison[11] He served from November 24, 1800, to March 3, 1801.

[5] The offer, dated January 12, 1802, for the position was written by President Thomas Jefferson and was countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison.

Wren Building , College of William & Mary . With a construction history dating back to 1695, it is part of the college's ancient campus.
Replica of a flatboat that delivered pioneers to the three settlements: Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend that would become Cincinnati.
Fort Washington is off of Broadway. The next street to the west is Sycamore Street, then Main Street.
Cincinnati in 1800, lithograph, based on a painting by A.J. Swing. In 1800, there were about 30 buildings and a population of 750 people. Many of these structures and some streets are identified by number in the print.