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William Duncan MacMillan (July 5, 1930 - October 31, 2006) was an American businessman. A longtime director of Cargill, he maintained a generally low profile.
Feb 12, 2007 · Duncan MacMillan served as a Cargill director for more than thirty years. As a boy he worked at Cargill during summer vacations, and he was hired as an assistant grain merchant after college, but he spent the bulk of his career in other family-owned concerns.
Duncan MacMillan's portrait was painted in 1998 by the New York portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, whose name is signed prominently on the canvas at lower left. Kinstler also painted Brown President Howard Swearer, whose portrait (BP 250) hangs in Sayles Hall.
The MacMillans, with their Cargill cousins, are today the owners of the largest privately held company in the world: Cargill, Inc. An engrossing saga of pluck and daring, love and loss, triumph...
Oct 10, 2015 · October 10, 2015. America’s largest privately held business started with just one grain storage facility. And the two families that grew it from there—the Cargills and the MacMillans—still ...
Jan 15, 2020 · A history of the MacMillan family and the grain trade in Minnesota. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index. With Wolfe at Quebec -- Dance called America -- Lawyers and loggers -- The Cargill connection -- Centennial fever -- Birds of a feather -- D.D. McMillan & sons -- Utter ruin -- New beginnings -- Loring Park ...
Oct 31, 2006 · Duncan was the great grandson of W.W. Cargill, the founder of Cargill, Incorporated, and the son of John H. MacMillan, Jr., past Chairman and CEO of the Company. Duncan served on the Board of Directors of Cargill for over three decades, retiring in 1997.
