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A. H. McMillan

Released
Date of birth:02. 07. 1877
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
9 Months 5 Days
Support
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Biography

A. H. McMillan was from Brooklyn, New York. A. H. McMillan began serving a twenty-year prison sentence on June 21, 1918. He was convicted of sedition for distributing material of the International Bible Students Association.

Birth-year evidence

Official Jehovah's Witnesses1979 Yearbook Canada chapter explicitly names Alexander Hugh Macmillan and gives bornJuly2,1877 inCanada. Same Brooklyn Bible Students leader jailed1918. This original institutional account resolves month conflict with derivative genealogy June2 claim. Preserve existing abbreviated name pending separate spelling cleanup; do not calculate from stored71. Sources: Source 1.

Case

Charges: Espionage Act of 1917 and/or the Sedition Act of 1918
Sentenced: Jun 21, 1918
Incarcerated: Jun 21, 1918
Released: Mar 26, 1919
Sentence: 20 years — four concurrent 20-year terms; conviction subsequently reversed
Judge: Harland B. Howe