The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 21, Number 1, November 1985 Page: 42
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42 THE TEXAS GULF HISTORICAL & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
$20.00 worth of his own labor to establish an "academy for the instruction
of youth.''3 The family valued education, as Henry Millard's later actions
would attest.
Millard entered the world of business in 1820 in Ste. Genevieve but
sometime in 1822 moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where his elder brother
Alfred was more than likely already in residence.4 In that city, on April
14, 1825, Alfred married Louisa Beaumont Breeden, a young widow and
daughter of a prosperous Natchez merchant family. At some point, young
Henry formed a lasting friendship with her brothers, Franklin and Jeffer-
son Beaumont, and another, more intimate relationship with her younger
sister, Mary Dewburleigh Barlace Warren Beaumont.5 He married Mary
Beaumont on August 24, 1826, her brother Franklin signing a surety for
his friend's $200 marriage bond.6 The young Millards set up house-
keeping in Natchez.
On the first of April, 1827, the ambitious Millard entered into the drug,
medicine, book, and stationery business with his new brother-in-law under
the name of "F. Beaumont and Co.''7 He also joined the fraternal order
of Freemasonry at Harmony Lodge #1 in Natchez, thus beginning a lifelong
association.8 The Millards' eldest son, Frederick Sipe Millard, was born in
that eventful year and baptized into his mother's church, the First
Presbyterian Church in Natchez. (No record exists of Millard's ever having
joined that or any other church.)9 There is some indication that later they
3Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff, Missouri Miscellany, II (September 1976), New Orleans Public
Library.
4Memorandum Book in Probate Packet #73, Henry Millard, Jefferson County Court House.
5Irene S. Gillis and Norman E. Gillis, Adams County, Mississippi Marriages 1802-1859, Vol.
III (1976), 146, New Orleans Public Library.
6lbid., Vol. V, 19.
7The Ariel, Natchez, Mississippi, March 15, 1827. Adams County Deed Records, Vol. T,
p. 110, Adams County Court House, Natchez, Mississippi.
8Records of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi.
9Records of First Presbyterian Church, Natchez, Mississippi.[Vol. XXI, No. 1
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