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Margaret Richards Millar

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Margaret Richards Millar

Birth
Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Death
10 Feb 1947 (aged 88)
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 4
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Daughter of J. DeForest Richards & Harriett Bartlett Jarvis.

Rev. Jonas Deforest Richards was born in Chester, VT and died in 1871 at Mobile, AL. After the Civil War, Jonas purchased and operated a cotton plantation in Wilcox
County, Alabama, serving as the county's representative in the state's Reconstruction Legislature and as "president pro-tem" of the University of Alabama.
Harriett Bartlett Jarvis was the daughter of William Jarvis (1770-1859), he served as the United States Consul to Portugal under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Jonas and his wife Harriet had six children, including sons Deforest(1846-1903) and Bartlett(1862-1911) and daughter Margaret Richards(1858-1947) was born in Weathersfield VT. The other 3 children unknown.

Margaret Richards was married to Stocks Millar(b.Mar 1858 d. 3 Mar. 1900 he was born in Cupar, fife, Scotland. His parents were Walter Millar and Sarah Moorhouse Stocks.
Margaret & Stock had the following children:
*Moorhouse F.X. Millar (1886-1956)Father Moorhouse F.X. Millar, SJ -Professor - Millar converted to Catholicism, with his mother, at age ten. Educated for a time in Europe, it was there that he decided to enter the Jesuits. In 1920, he began teaching at Fordham University in 1920, where he spent most of the rest of his life. His main academic field was political philosophy, and he wrote a number of articles on the relation between the American founding and Catholicism, as well as serving as associate editor of the Jesuit journal
*Muriel Jarvis Millar(Broocks) (Mar 1889- 1947)
*Ronald Millar( 29 Aug 1890-26 May 1946)



Daughter of J. DeForest Richards & Harriett Bartlett Jarvis.

Rev. Jonas Deforest Richards was born in Chester, VT and died in 1871 at Mobile, AL. After the Civil War, Jonas purchased and operated a cotton plantation in Wilcox
County, Alabama, serving as the county's representative in the state's Reconstruction Legislature and as "president pro-tem" of the University of Alabama.
Harriett Bartlett Jarvis was the daughter of William Jarvis (1770-1859), he served as the United States Consul to Portugal under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Jonas and his wife Harriet had six children, including sons Deforest(1846-1903) and Bartlett(1862-1911) and daughter Margaret Richards(1858-1947) was born in Weathersfield VT. The other 3 children unknown.

Margaret Richards was married to Stocks Millar(b.Mar 1858 d. 3 Mar. 1900 he was born in Cupar, fife, Scotland. His parents were Walter Millar and Sarah Moorhouse Stocks.
Margaret & Stock had the following children:
*Moorhouse F.X. Millar (1886-1956)Father Moorhouse F.X. Millar, SJ -Professor - Millar converted to Catholicism, with his mother, at age ten. Educated for a time in Europe, it was there that he decided to enter the Jesuits. In 1920, he began teaching at Fordham University in 1920, where he spent most of the rest of his life. His main academic field was political philosophy, and he wrote a number of articles on the relation between the American founding and Catholicism, as well as serving as associate editor of the Jesuit journal
*Muriel Jarvis Millar(Broocks) (Mar 1889- 1947)
*Ronald Millar( 29 Aug 1890-26 May 1946)




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