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the Improved Order of Red Men. He
and his wife were members of the Pres-
byterian church.
Mr. MacMillen married, September 7,
1881, Isabella, daughter of John Tonner,
of Crawford-John, in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Mr. Tonner came originally from
Dumfriesshire. Mrs. MacMillen pur-
chased her present home in partnership
with her niece, Miss Annie Tonner, and
they are conducting business under the
firm name of MacMillen & Company.
The death of Mr. MacMillen, which oc-
curred October 9, 191 1, deprived Greenwich
of one of her most respected citizens,
and his profession of one of its recog-
nized authorities. About a year after
his decease Mrs. MacMillen and her
niece built three greenhouses, one twenty-
five by seventy-three feet, and each of
the others eleven by sixty feet. They
conduct a general floral business, thus
maintaining an establishment which is
a monument to the memory of its founder.
Robert MacMillen's work lives after
him. He was skilled and learned in his
profession, and has left a name distin-
guished in its annals.
DRINKWATER, Henry Goulding,
Business Man, Public Official.
Success is a matter of the individual.
A few succeed where the many with equal
opportunity, but with unseeing eyes, and
lacking persistence, determination, self-
reliance, etc., remain on the lower rungs
of the ladder. Among the successful individuals
must be mentioned Henry
Goulding Drinkwater, representative of
an ancient English family, who through
his own achievements has added luster to
an already honored name.
To trace the origin of the name of
Drinkwater, it is necessary to go back
even earlier than the thirteenth century,
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the time when most surnames originated.
Previous to that date, it was customary
to classify a family in three ways : Loca-
tion of home, occupation, or personal
characteristic. It is from this last source
that the name of Drinkwater is derived.
It was a name given to a teetotaler in very
early days, in fact, as early as 1274 John
Drinkwater appears in the Hundred Rolls.
The name has been an honored one in the
little village of Hartpury, Gloucestershire,
England. Hartpury is a small parish in
the Union of Newent, Lower Division of
the Hundred of Dudstone and Kings
Barton. It is in the East Division of the
County of Gloucester, four miles from the
city of Gloucester. There are not more
than one thousand inhabitants there in
this picturesque village. Their occupation
is chiefly farming, sixteen hundred
and forty acres of the land being arable.
In all there are about three thousand four
hundred and thirty acres, much of which
is woodland. The coat-of-arms of the
Drinkwater family is as follows
Arms—Per pale, gules and azure on a fesse,
wavy argent, between 3 garbs or, as many billets
of the second.
Crest—Three ears of wheat, two in saltier and
one in pale or, entiled with a ducal coronet of the
last.
Thomas Drinkwater, grandfather of
Henry Goulding Drinkwater, was a na-
tive of Hartpury, the home of the family
for many generations. He was a farmer,
and lived to the remarkable age of one
hundred and four years.
Thomas (2) Drinkwater, son of
Thomas (1) Drinkwater, was born in
Hartpury, and on reaching manhood's estate,
learned the trade of gardener. This
occupation he followed throughout his
active life. He lived to be ninety years
of age. He married Jane Mary Goulding,
a member of an old English family. The
name of Goulding is from Golding, origi-
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