Harriet Upton, Vol II, Page 80. History of Trumbull County, Ohio.
Sketch on Frank A. Millikan.
Henry A. Millikan enlisted during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed while bravely serving his country. He married Julia Merwin, who was born in Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where her father, Lewis Merwin, located on coming to this state from Connecticut, his bride accompanying him on horseback on the long journey made across the country. She died in 1900, aged sixty-seven years. Four children were born to Henry A. and Julia Millikan, namely: Edwin, a farmer in Braceville, Ohio; Ella, living in Mentor, Ohio; Frank A., of this sketch, and Eugenia, who married F. B. Wadsworth, and died in 1905. Having completed his early education in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Frank A. Millikan was for four years engaged in the mercantile business at West Farmington, Trumbull county. He was subsequently employed for fifteen years as a traveling salesman in furniture line. Settling in Warren, Mr. Millikan began the manufacture of display racks for furniture stores, and under the name of the Eureka Manufacturing Com- (Page 81) pany has established a well-paying business, his factory being located on Dawson street. Enterprising and active in resources, he afterwards began the manufacture of sticky fly paper, and met with such success that his business has been incorporated and enlarged. The company of which Mr. Millikan is president was capitalized at $25,000, and is destined to become one of Warren's important industries, the factory in which the paper is made being located on the main line of the Erie railroad.
In 1883, in West Farmington, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Emma Wolcott, who was born in Warren, a daughter of Orlow Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have one child, Louise, who was in charge of the Free Kinder-garten schools of Warren, and now is wife of E. S. Good, of Lexington, Kentucky, a professor in the state university. Fraternally. Mr. Millikan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and religiously he is prominent in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder, and is active in its Sunday school.
[Source: Upton Trumbull Co. History, Vol.II, Page 80]
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Sketch on Frank A. Millikan.
Henry A. Millikan enlisted during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed while bravely serving his country. He married Julia Merwin, who was born in Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where her father, Lewis Merwin, located on coming to this state from Connecticut, his bride accompanying him on horseback on the long journey made across the country. She died in 1900, aged sixty-seven years. Four children were born to Henry A. and Julia Millikan, namely: Edwin, a farmer in Braceville, Ohio; Ella, living in Mentor, Ohio; Frank A., of this sketch, and Eugenia, who married F. B. Wadsworth, and died in 1905. Having completed his early education in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Frank A. Millikan was for four years engaged in the mercantile business at West Farmington, Trumbull county. He was subsequently employed for fifteen years as a traveling salesman in furniture line. Settling in Warren, Mr. Millikan began the manufacture of display racks for furniture stores, and under the name of the Eureka Manufacturing Com- (Page 81) pany has established a well-paying business, his factory being located on Dawson street. Enterprising and active in resources, he afterwards began the manufacture of sticky fly paper, and met with such success that his business has been incorporated and enlarged. The company of which Mr. Millikan is president was capitalized at $25,000, and is destined to become one of Warren's important industries, the factory in which the paper is made being located on the main line of the Erie railroad.
In 1883, in West Farmington, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Emma Wolcott, who was born in Warren, a daughter of Orlow Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have one child, Louise, who was in charge of the Free Kinder-garten schools of Warren, and now is wife of E. S. Good, of Lexington, Kentucky, a professor in the state university. Fraternally. Mr. Millikan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and religiously he is prominent in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder, and is active in its Sunday school.
[Source: Upton Trumbull Co. History, Vol.II, Page 80]
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Harriet Upton, Vol II, Page 80. History of Trumbull County, Ohio.
Sketch on Frank A. Millikan.
Henry A. Millikan enlisted during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed while bravely serving his country. He married Julia Merwin, who was born in Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where her father, Lewis Merwin, located on coming to this state from Connecticut, his bride accompanying him on horseback on the long journey made across the country. She died in 1900, aged sixty-seven years. Four children were born to Henry A. and Julia Millikan, namely: Edwin, a farmer in Braceville, Ohio; Ella, living in Mentor, Ohio; Frank A., of this sketch, and Eugenia, who married F. B. Wadsworth, and died in 1905. Having completed his early education in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Frank A. Millikan was for four years engaged in the mercantile business at West Farmington, Trumbull county. He was subsequently employed for fifteen years as a traveling salesman in furniture line. Settling in Warren, Mr. Millikan began the manufacture of display racks for furniture stores, and under the name of the Eureka Manufacturing Com- (Page 81) pany has established a well-paying business, his factory being located on Dawson street. Enterprising and active in resources, he afterwards began the manufacture of sticky fly paper, and met with such success that his business has been incorporated and enlarged. The company of which Mr. Millikan is president was capitalized at $25,000, and is destined to become one of Warren's important industries, the factory in which the paper is made being located on the main line of the Erie railroad.
In 1883, in West Farmington, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Emma Wolcott, who was born in Warren, a daughter of Orlow Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have one child, Louise, who was in charge of the Free Kinder-garten schools of Warren, and now is wife of E. S. Good, of Lexington, Kentucky, a professor in the state university. Fraternally. Mr. Millikan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and religiously he is prominent in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder, and is active in its Sunday school.
[Source: Upton Trumbull Co. History, Vol.II, Page 80]
Contributed by Rick Nelson (#49012192) 19 Jun 2017
Sketch on Frank A. Millikan.
Henry A. Millikan enlisted during the Civil war in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed while bravely serving his country. He married Julia Merwin, who was born in Braceville, Trumbull county, Ohio, where her father, Lewis Merwin, located on coming to this state from Connecticut, his bride accompanying him on horseback on the long journey made across the country. She died in 1900, aged sixty-seven years. Four children were born to Henry A. and Julia Millikan, namely: Edwin, a farmer in Braceville, Ohio; Ella, living in Mentor, Ohio; Frank A., of this sketch, and Eugenia, who married F. B. Wadsworth, and died in 1905. Having completed his early education in the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Frank A. Millikan was for four years engaged in the mercantile business at West Farmington, Trumbull county. He was subsequently employed for fifteen years as a traveling salesman in furniture line. Settling in Warren, Mr. Millikan began the manufacture of display racks for furniture stores, and under the name of the Eureka Manufacturing Com- (Page 81) pany has established a well-paying business, his factory being located on Dawson street. Enterprising and active in resources, he afterwards began the manufacture of sticky fly paper, and met with such success that his business has been incorporated and enlarged. The company of which Mr. Millikan is president was capitalized at $25,000, and is destined to become one of Warren's important industries, the factory in which the paper is made being located on the main line of the Erie railroad.
In 1883, in West Farmington, Ohio, Mr. Millikan married Emma Wolcott, who was born in Warren, a daughter of Orlow Wolcott. Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have one child, Louise, who was in charge of the Free Kinder-garten schools of Warren, and now is wife of E. S. Good, of Lexington, Kentucky, a professor in the state university. Fraternally. Mr. Millikan is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and religiously he is prominent in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder, and is active in its Sunday school.
[Source: Upton Trumbull Co. History, Vol.II, Page 80]
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