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Gavin Riley Mcmillan <ref name="term_50570" />
<p> a Presbyterian minister, was born in Fairfield District, S. C., Dec. 24, 1824; was educated in Miami University, Athens, Ohio; graduated at the theological seminary of the [[Reformed]] Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pa.; was licensed in 1850, and in 1851 was ordained pastor of the Neshanock and Hermon churches, in Pennsylvania. In 1859 he accepted a call to the First Reformed Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, but owing to failing health resigned in 1860. Subsequently he settled in the West, and became president of the Union [[Female]] Seminary at Xenia, Ohio. He died Jan. 9, 1865. Mr. McMillan was a man of good talents '''''—''''' the judgment predominating over the imaginative, the practical over the speculative; truthfulness, simplicity, and humility were the principal traits of his character. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867. p. 395. </p>

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<ref name="term_50570"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/mcmillan,+gavin+riley Gavin Riley Mcmillan from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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