BIOGRAPHY: Francis MILLIKEN, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 726.

   FRANCIS MILLIKEN, deceased, was born in Juniata county, December 20, 1813, a 
son of James and Jane (Boggs) Milliken.  James Milliken was of Scotch-Irish 
descent; he and his wife settled in Juniata county in the latter part of the 
eighteenth century, and there engaged in farming.  Their children are:  Thomas, 
who married Miss Beale, and had five children;  James, married Miss McDonald, 
and had one child;  Millie (Mrs. Joshua Beale), had five children;  Mattie (Mrs. 
John Endslow), had seven children;  Joseph, married Elizabeth Laird, and had 
four children;  Jane (Mrs. John McDonald), had sons and daughters;  Francis;  
John, married Isabel Barclay, and had six children;  and Mary.  James Milliken 
died at the age of eighty-six years.  His wife also died at an advanced age.
  Francis Milliken attended the subscription schools of his neighborhood and 
added to his limited education by reading and associating with intelligent men.  
In his eighteenth year he began to learn the trade of saddlery and harness-
making with George Beale, in Juniata county, near the present site of Pleasant 
View post office.  After learning his trade, he began business in his own name 
at his father's home, which he continued for nine years.  He then removed to 
Warfordsburg, Fulton county, Pa., and opened a store for saddlery and harness-
making; after four years of successful business he removed to Hancock, Md.  
There he remained for four years.  In 1851, he came to Mifflin county and 
purchased the old homestead of Francis Boggs, at Yeagertown, which he farmed to 
the time of his death.
  Francis Milliken was married in 1840, to Sarah, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Hench) Briner, of German ancestry.  Their children are:  Matilda (Mrs. Henry R. 
Miller), who has one son;  Jessie, died aged eighteen months;  George, died at 
seven years of age;  Myra Belle, died aged six years;  John, married Josephine 
Smith, and has children, Minnie, Stetson, McClure, Rita and John Francis;  Mary 
(Mrs. Thomas J. Boate), had seven children, only one, Minnie, survives.
  Francis Milliken was a member of the Lutheran church.  He died October 12, 
1883.  Mrs. Milliken was born in 1815.  She is a member of the Presbyterian 
church, and still takes part in its work.