Early Life
Millard was born in Stillwater, New York, to Josiah and Nancy (Tower) Millard in about 1796. In 1804 his family moved to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and then in the 1820s to Natchez, Mississippi.
On August 24, 1826, Millard married Mary Dewburleigh Barlace Warren Beaumont, the daughter of William Henry Beaumont and Elizabeth (Duncan) Beaumont.
Millard's first son, Frederick Sipe Millard was born in 1827. That same year he opened a store with his brother-in-law, Franklin Beaumont. They sold medicine, toy trains, books, and stationery.
Millard started a drug firm with a man named Samuel Mason in New Orleans in 1832. Mason died in 1833, which caused difficulties for the firm. During that same year Millard's second son, Henry Beaumont Millard was born Then Millard's wife Mary died in 1834.
Millard formed a new partnership with Joseph Pulsifer and Thomas Huling.
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