Edward Millen
Edward Davis Millen was an Australian journalist and politician who served as the first Minister for Repatriation.
Millen was born in Deal, Kent in 1860 to John Bullock Millen, who was a pilot of the Cinque Ports, and Charlotte . He migrated to New South Wales in 1880, having been educated in England and employed in the marine insurance business. OnFebruary 1883 he married Constance Evelyn Flanagan at Bourke they settled as graziers in Brewarrina. Millen, who had worked as a journalist in Bourke and Walgett and wrote for the Central Australian and Bourke Telegraph , became editor of the Western Herald and Darling River Advocate around 1889, partowning the business together with Philip Chapman until 1901. During this period he also worked as a land agent, acquiring an office in OConnell Street in Sydney and a house in Burwood by 1902.
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