History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . ter of Moses (1), b. in Searsmont, Me. CHILDREN OP WILLIAM AND LUCY PERRIGO. 1. Hon. Seth L. Milliken7 (2), eldest son of William6 (2), b. in Montville, Me.,Dec. 12, 1831; m. Dec. 8, 1857, to Elizabeth
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . ter of Moses (1), b. in Searsmont, Me. CHILDREN OP WILLIAM AND LUCY PERRIGO. 1. Hon. Seth L. Milliken7 (2), eldest son of William6 (2), b. in Montville, Me.,Dec. 12, 1831; m. Dec. 8, 1857, to Elizabeth S. Arnold, b. in Sidney, Me.,Oct. 3, 1839. He died of pneumonia at Washington, , Apr. 18, 1897. The following biographical sketch was adapted from the Memorial Address ofHon. Edwin C. Burleigh on the Life and Character of Hon. Seth L. Milliken: The career of Seth L. Milliken vividly and forcibly illustrates the possibilitiesof American citizenship. The honored position he attained in the councils ofthe nation was due in no degree to the accident of birth or fortuitous circum-stances. From the age of 14 years, when he left his country home to secure aneducation, with $3, which his grandmother had given him from her RevolutionaryWar pension — the only contribution for this purpose he ever had — and walked40 miles to save stage fare, he was wholly the architect of his own HON. SETH L. MILLIKEN, , BELFAST, ME THE POSTERITY OF JOHN MILLIKEN. 33 To a youth of less resolute mould and tenacity of purpose, the obstacles in hisway would have seemed insurmountable; but though his financial resources weremeagre, he was not without capital. He had inherited a vigorous constitution,and hard work in the open air amid the rugged hills of his native town had givenhim the buoyancy of good health and taught him habits of industry that he re-tained through life. When scarcely emerged from childhood he took up theburdens of life without experience in worldly affairs and with
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