{"id":12815,"date":"2013-12-26T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:46:17","slug":"mcmillin-lucille-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mcmillin-lucille-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"McMILLIN, Lucille (Foster)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"McMillanLucille\"<\/a>Mrs. Benton McMILLIN<\/strong>, the lovely young wife of the Governor of Tennessee, is an ideal first lady of the State. \u00a0Not only is she blessed with youth and beauty, but she has a brilliant mind and possesses rare tact and quick wit. She remembers faces and names, and has the great gift of personal magnetism. \u00a0Her manner is vivacious, and in conversation her freedom from affectation is very attractive. \u00a0It is easy for her to make friends; indeed, she is said to rival her distinguished husband in popularity, and it is safe to say there is not a young woman in the State more admired than the young wife of the Chief Executive. \u00a0This is especially remarkable, as\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is a Tennessean by adoption and has lived in the State only since her husband became Governor, in 1899.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is one of those rare women who know their husbands\u2019 affairs and keep their own counsel concerning them. \u00a0She is filled with ambition for him, and the Governor\u2019s close friends say he has a wonderful helpmeet in his clever wife. \u00a0These traits are an inheritance with\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>, as her father, the late Hon.\u00a0J.M. FOSTER<\/strong>, of Louisiana, was a leader among men and stood high in the councils of his State. \u00a0In reviewing his life, the New Orleans\u00a0States<\/em>\u00a0of December 12, 1900, said of him: \u201cAlthough he was always ready in the councils of his party to give the benefit of his ripe experience and the high prestige of his name and had taken so prominent a part in the government of his State, he never sought reward in the shape of office, which he could have had for the asking, but retired to the quiet life of a country gentleman, devoting himself to his large business interests, in which he was so eminently successful.\u201d \u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0inherits her father\u2019s strong character, with the beauty and charm of her mother, who, as\u00a0Eleanor LONG<\/strong>, was one of the noted belles of the \u201cCreole State,\u201d and is now one of the foremost brilliant women of Louisiana. \u00a0Mrs. FOSTER<\/strong>\u00a0is a fine type of that \u201cnew woman\u201d who keeps her head and heart young, though called upon to wear a grandmother\u2019s honors. \u00a0She is progressive and keenly interested in literary and philanthropic movements. \u00a0She has many times been honored by the women of her State in being elected first president of the Louisiana Federation of Women\u2019s Clubs. \u00a0Mrs. FOSTER<\/strong> is remembered in Nashville as a gifted and brilliant woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0comes of old colonial stock \u2013 descended on one side from\u00a0Col. Ellis COOKE<\/strong>, who commanded a battalion in the War of the Revolution, and was a personal friend of Washington; on the other side, from\u00a0John BOGGS<\/strong>, of Virginia, who owned large tracts of land in Virginia, the deeds to which, signed by Lord Fairfax \u201cin the reign of His Most Christian Majesty, George III.\u201d are preserved in the archives of the Foster family. \u00a0Her father and three uncles served with distinction in the Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n

In appearance\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the\u00a0spirituelle type, tall and graceful. \u00a0Her chief beauty lies in her eyes. \u00a0They are so dark and lustrous they quite dominate her face.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was\u00a0Miss Lucille FOSTER<\/strong>, of Louisiana, having been born near Shreveport, at the beautiful country home of her father, a man of wealth, who gave his children exceptional advantages of education and travel. \u00a0Like many other Southern girls, she received her early education in her own home under tutors; but later she spent three years at the Mary Baldwin Seminary, of Staunton, Va., from their going to New York, afterwards to Paris, France, where she made special study of the languages and dramatic reading with the best masters. \u00a0She has traveled extensively both in her own country and in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

While yet a schoolgirl, she visited Washington and captured the heart of the brilliant Tennessean, who pressed his suit so successfully that the romantic courtship culminated in an ideally happy marriage. \u00a0She laughingly admits that she thinks her husband is the greatest man in the world, and the devotion of the distinguished Governor to his beautiful young wife is very charming. \u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is the proud mother of a dear little girl, Eleanor FOSTER, who bears the name of her grandmother.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since coming to Nashville,\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0has been a prominent figure in society. \u00a0During her husband\u2019s administration she has been called upon to act as hostess on two occasions of national importance \u2013 the visit to Nashville of Admiral and<\/strong>\u00a0Mrs. DEWEY<\/strong>, and, later, of\u00a0Admiral and Mrs. SCHLEY<\/strong>. At the many brilliant functions in honor of these noted guests\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0tact and graciousness won for her new laurels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0took a prominent part in the social world at the national capital as a bride. \u00a0The admiration she received there was enough to turn her pretty head, were it not that she is as sensible as she is charming. \u00a0The Washington\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0said of her: \u00a0\u201dThe lovely young bride of the distinguished member from Tennessee,\u00a0Hon. Benton McMILLIN,<\/strong>\u00a0has the honor of being one of the youngest, if not the youngest, of the ladies of \u00a0the official set of Washington. \u00a0She is very girlish in appearance, slight and graceful, and dresses with exquisite taste. \u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is a woman of rare conversational powers, and her tact is as delightful as her wit is attractive.<\/span><\/p>\n

We take the following from the Utica (N.Y.)\u00a0Globe:\u00a0<\/em>\u201cOne of the brides of the congressional circle who has created a decided\u00a0furore<\/em>\u00a0in Washington society is\u00a0Mrs. McMILLIN<\/strong>, the wife of Tennessee\u2019s most distinguished representative. \u00a0From the first Mrs. McMILLIN has been immensely popular, and has been entertained in the most exclusive homes of the capital city. \u00a0She is a beautiful woman \u2013 or \u201cgirl,\u201d as she might better be called; for she is only a year or so past-twenty, with a slender, graceful figure, clear complexion, and eyes of remarkable beauty and expression.<\/span><\/p>\n

While she is devoted to society and thoroughly enjoys its \u201cfrivols,\u201d\u00a0Mrs. \u00a0McMILLIN<\/strong>\u00a0is a great deal more than simply a society woman, having fine intellectual attainments and being a very gifted reader.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Gilchrist, Annie S.\u00a0Some Representative Women of Tennessee<\/i>. Nashville: McQuiddy Print. Co, 1902.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mrs. Benton McMILLIN, the lovely young wife of the Governor of Tennessee, is an ideal first lady of the State. \u00a0Not only is she blessed with youth and beauty, but she has a brilliant mind and possesses rare tact and quick wit. She remembers faces and names, and has the great gift of personal magnetism. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4064,634,4419],"tags":[4070,316,981,652],"class_list":{"0":"post-12815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-representativewomen","8":"category-woman","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-boggs","11":"tag-cooke","12":"tag-foster","13":"tag-mcmillin","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}