John M. Millikin

John M. Millikin

Signature of John M. Millikin

John M. Millikin (born October 14, 1804 in Greensboro , Pennsylvania , † April 9, 1884 in Hamilton , Ohio ) was an American lawyer , officer and politician ( Republican Party ). He was Ohio Treasurer of State from 1876 ​​to 1878 .

Career

John M. Millikin, son of Daniel Millikin, was born in Greene County in 1804 . The Millikin family moved then about three years later to Hamilton (Ohio), where his father was the first doctor ( physician ) was. John M. Millikin received private tuition. His youth was overshadowed by the British-American War . From 1824 to 1825 he attended Washington College in Washington County (Pennsylvania) for a year . He was admitted to the bar on September 5, 1827 and then ran a joint legal practice with William Bebb . When Bebb was elected governor of Ohio in October 1846 , Millikin gave up the legal practice and moved to his farm, which was three miles from Hamilton. There he bred Poland China - domestic pigs . Millikin was the first president of the Ohio Poland-China Record Association and was unanimously re-elected. He wrote a book on pig breeding.

Millikin was an officer in the Ohio Militia for several years and served on the staff of Ohio Governor Thomas Corwin . He served on the Ohio Board of Equalization in 1846 and served on the Ohio Board of Agriculture for three terms . In 1860, he was appointed trustee at Miami University - a post he held for nine years. He was later appointed a second trustee and held the post until his death. The Secretary of the Interior appointed him commissioner in 1873 to sign a treaty with the Creek to cede part of their territory to the Seminoles . In 1875 he was elected Treasurer of State of Ohio. The Republican Party nominated him again in 1877 for the post. In the following election, however, he suffered a defeat. Millikin died on April 9, 1884 in Hamilton and was then buried there on April 11, 1884 in Greenwood Cemetery .

On September 6, 1831, he married Mary Hough of Hamilton. The couple had four children.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Millikin, John M .: A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio: With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers , Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882, pp. 340-346
2. ^ ^{A b} Smith, Joseph Patterson: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, p. 345
3. ^ ^{A b} Ohio Poland-China Record , Volume 6, Christian Publishing House, 1884, pp. 5f