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Aaron Manasses McMillan
Aaron Mannases McMillan (November 3, 1895June 1, 1980) was a medical missionary to Angola and a civic leader and legislator in Nebraska. He was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1928 as a Republican and served one term. He then was invited by the American Board of Foreign Missions and the Black Congregational Church to serve as a medical missionary in Galangue, Portuguese West Africa, where he worked from 1931 to 1948. After returning to Omaha, Nebraska, he was involved in the Omaha Branch of the NAACP, served on the board of the Omaha Housing Authority, and continued to work as a medical doctor.
==Life==
Mcmillan was born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, November 3, 1895 to Reverend Henry R. McMillan and his wife Sarah. He had two brothers, William and Samuel.〔"American Board of Foreign Missions". Topeka Plaindealer, Topeka, Kansas. Friday, September 6, 1929. Volume 30 Issue 36 page 3〕 On November 8, 1810 he married Willena Cooper of Fort Worth, Texas. His ancestors were Haitian and came to the United States in 1870. He claimed descent from slaves taken from Africa to Haiti in 1568 by slave traders Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake. McMillan graduated from Cotton Plant Academy in 1915, from Bishop College in Dallas in 1919, and from Meharry Medical College in Nashville in 1923.〔 Willena also graduated from Bishop College in Dallas and taught at Houston College and Texas A&M College in Fort Worth.〔"Missionary Dies in Home". Omaha World Herald. Tuesday, January 20, 1970. page 28〕 The couple had two sons, Aaron and Robert, born before leaving for Angola, and one daughter, Helen, born in Angola.〔Houston, Robert. "A Medical Plant Built on a Shoestring". Omaha World Herald. Sunday, March 7, 1948. page 67〕
Aaron's father was a Baptist minister at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Omaha, and Aaron moved to Omaha in 1922 after visiting his father.〔Rich, Blanche A. "This Month We Salute". The Afro American. Dec 4, 1948〕
October 26, 1967 he received a minor gunshot wound in Lincoln, Nebraska but fully recovered and in 1969 he was tired for tax evasion based on irregularities in his tax returns between 1959 and 1962. He eventually pleaded no contest to the charge and received three years probation.〔"Doctor Put on Probation for Income Tax Evasion". Omaha World Herald. Tuesday, November 25, 1969. page 2〕
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