Milligan - Frank C.
Source: History of Montgomery County, Indiana. Indianapolis: AW Bowen, 1913
(Indianapolis;
AW Bowen, 1913) p 637
A man of naturally sound judgment and shrewd perception, characteristics of men who are descendant sof the Scotch-Irish, is Frank Clifton MILLIGAN, for many years one of the progressive agriculturists of Montgomery Co., now an active real estate dealer in Crawfordsville. He has so ordered his career as to be eminently eligible to representation in a work of this kind. He has risen through his strictly moral habits, his attention to business and his desire to deal fairly, promptly and honestly with his fellow men, and his name stands high today in all business circles with which he has come into relationship. His domestic and social relations have ever been of the most pleasant character, and the fact that his surroundings are such as to make life enjoyable is due solely to his individual merits, his affable and courteous treatment of others and his strict adherence to justice in all his dealings.
Mr. Milligan was born in
Waveland, Montgomery Co, Ind, on Nov. 10, 1870; he is a son of
James R. and Mary Frances (IRWIN) Milligan, the father born in the
same vicinity as was the subject, his birth having occurred in
1842. His father, John Milligan, entered land from the government
in that township; and later laid out the town of Waveland. He was
of Scotch-Irish extraction and in 1832 he came from Pennsylvania to the
Wabash Valley country, and was thus one of the early settlers of
Montgomery county, and here he engaged in farming and stock
raising extensively, becoming one of the best known and most
successful stock men of his day in this section of Indiana. He
rode horseback over the state buying live stock, continuing this
for a number of years. He had several stores and he shipped
produce in large quantities. He was a brother of Joe Milligan, one
of the pioneer merchants of Crawfordsville. He was one of the
leading business men and representative citizens of this
locality, and he did much toward its material, civic and moral
development. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him, and is
deserving of a perpetual place in the state's history. His death
occurred at the advanced age of 85. James R. Milligan was reared
on a farm and engaged in farming all his life, with pronounced
success. His death occured in 1899. He and Frances Irwin were
marr. in the 60s. She is still living, making her home at
Waveland.
Frank C. Milligan, of this review, received a good
common school education, then entered Hanover College, where he
remained two years, after which he resumed farming on the home
place, which he continued for two years, and thereby got a good
start, then rented 160 acres, which he farmed one year, then
purchased then purchased a half interest in 80 acres and farmed
the entire place for 3 years. Selling that, he purchased a farm
of 216 acres in Parke Co, which he operated for 3 years, when he
sold out and bought 185 acres in Montgomery County, farming that for
four years, when he sold it and removed to Oklahoma and invested
in land there. He prepared to move to that state (then a
territory), but the birth of a child in his family detained him
and he later decided to remain in Montgomery County. He had been very
successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, and accumulated
rapidly with advancing years, and while on the different farms he
had handled real estate on the side, in which line he was also
successful, his work being under the auspices of Alf. LOOKABILL,
the pioneer real estate man. Later Mr. Milligan opened an office in
Waveland, which proved to be the only successful real estate
office ever in that town, and he enjoyed a large business during
the six years he was there. He then came to Crawfordsville, and
has maintained an office in the Ben Hur building for about two
years. He is one of the best known real estate men in the county,
and he is well posted on the values of real estate, both city and
country. Fraternally, Mr. Milligan belongs to the Knights of Pythias,
the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Tribe of Ben Hur.
Politically, he is a Republican and in religious matters a
Presbyterian.
Mr. Milligan was married in 1892 to Maude ACKER, who was born in Waveland, this county, where her people were long well-known
and highly respected. To this union two children have been born,
Mildred and James C, both in school at this writing, the son in
Wilson school and the daughter in Belmont College, Nashville,
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