Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria County Pennsylvania, p.21

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States pension examining surgeon, and since 1891 has been senior surgeon on the staff of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital. He is a member of the American Medical association and of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, being vice-president of the latter in 1886, and of the Cambria County Medical society, of which he was president in 1893.
    To his military and professional career Dr. Lowman adds a private career full of good works, being a director of the Citizens' National bank, trustee of the Johnstown Savings bank since 1886, director of the Johnstown Water company and of the Johnstown Gas company since 1893; director of the Johnstown telephone company, trustee of the Grand View cemetery, and since 1891 trustee of the Conemaugh Valley Memorial hospital. It will thus be seen what a hard worker Dr. Lowman has been. His unusual powers, too, have ever been directed to the promotion of the useful and good, the alleviation of suffering, and the course of freedom and right.
    Dr. Lowman in 1870 married Miss Susan Morrell Stackhouse, of Edgemont, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, and has one son, Dr. John B. Lowman, who graduated from Jefferson Medical college in the class of 1895. Since graduating he has practiced with his father in Johnstown. A high rank among physicians may be prophesied for a young man who has the inspiration of such highly creditable examples as are afforded by the father and grandfather of Dr. John Lowman, Jr.

JAMES McMILLEN. It is no mean thing in these days of hot competition to attain success in any line without the advantages of systematic training, and there is good stuff in
a man who, unaided, makes himself and his fortune without marrying either. So it follows that the condition of life of a self-made man is the proof of his inborn capacity or lack of it. The above has had a literal interpretation in the life of the subject of this sketch.
    James McMillen, widely known as an influential business man of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, also occupies a high place among his fellow-citizens as a self-made man of ability and integrity. He grew into positions of trust and profit, not from the force of external circumstances, but because of inate strength and sound ability. He has educated himself, and chiefly through his association with men and connection with business interests. Such an education makes a man of affairs and dispels the illusions which make the dreaming theorist. The latter is seldom useful to many people, the former is always so if he possesses executive ability, energy and good judgment. These traits have made Mr. McMillen what he is to his fellow-men.
    In March, 1850, he came to Johnstown, Cambria county, and at the organization of the Cambria Iron company, in 1853, he became a member. He was appointed to superintend the transferring of the property from Shoenberg & King, the old company, to the new corporation, a task of considerable difficulty owning to necessary complications.
    From that day to this he has been an active and valuable member of the company, being of the few who are connected with it at present, and who were connected with it at its beginning. He has for a number of years been a member of the board of directors, but six or eight years ago was elevated to the position of resident director, a recognition due to his qualifications.
    He is president of the First National bank

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