Husband Dr. John Davidson Milligan 1 2
Born: 31 Jul 1851 - near Madison, Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 3
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Father: James M. Milligan (1819- ) 1 4
Mother: Elizabeth Davidson ( - ) 5
Marriage: 2 Oct 1876 1
Wife Martha J. Guffey 1
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Father: Col. Joseph Guffey ( - ) 1
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Other Spouse: [Unk] Pinkerton ( - ) 1
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1 F Mary M. Milligan 6
Born: 12 Jul 1882 6
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2 M Joe. J. Milligan 6
Born: 30 Dec 1884 6
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Davidson Milligan
He spent his boyhood on the farm of his father until he was seventeen. During this time he enjoyed no further benefits of schooling than were common to the boys of his locality at that time. But having advanced as far in his education as the facilities of the common schools allowed, he prosecuted his higher studies, including the classics, under competent private tutors. In his eighteenth year he creditably sustained an examination by the county superintendent, and received a certificate to teach. He taught two terms in succession, and still pursuing his studies became a student and graduate, July 17, 1872, of Iron City College, Pittsburgh, Pa. Afterwards he again taught school in the same building in which he had first gone to school. About this time he took up the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Lewis Sutton, a practicing physician at Mendon, this county, and in 1874 attended a course of medical lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio. From this institution he went to New York City, where he remained until he completed his course, and where, on March 1, 1876, he graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Returning home, he remained with his preceptor during the summer of 1876, and in October of that year again went East. On this trip, October 2d, he was married to Mrs. Martha J. Pinkerton, daughter of the late Col. Joseph Guffey, of Sewickley township, Westmoreland. The marriage ceremony was performed in the Pennsylvania Room at Mount Vernon, amid a throng of travelers, by the Rev. Mr. Ingersoll, of Washington City.
Returning to New York, Mr. Milligan remained there during the closing session of that academic year, occupying his time in the study of clinical medicine and surgery in special, together with all available subjects incidental to the curriculum of the profession. After properly qualifying he returned to Madison, Westmoreland County, in March, 1877, where he located to pursue the practice of the profession of his choice. Soon after locating at Madison he became a member of the Westmoreland County Medical Society, and in 1878 was delegated to Pittsburgh to the meeting of the State Medical Society, of which he became a permanent member.
He received his education in the common schools and Madison academy, and taught three terms in the schools of his native township. He then read medicine with the well-known Dr. Lewis Sutton, of West Newton, and attended lectures in 1873 at the Western Reserve Medical College, of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1874 he entered the celebrated Bellevue Hospital College of New York city, and was graduated from that famous institution March 1, 1876. During the spring of the succeeding year he took the full postgraduate course of Bellevue and commenced the practice of medicine at Madison. He soon became one of the foremost physicians of the county. After a residence of thirteen years at Madison he selected Greensburg as a wider field for the practice of his chosen profession, and accordingly removed to that place in January, 1890. He rapidly built up a large and enviable practice in Greensburg, retaining many of his former patrons and securing patronage from various other sections of the county. He was a republican in politics and was a member of Madison school board for ten years. He was a member of the United Brethren church and Three Graces lodge, No. 934, I. O. O. F. He was a Free Mason, holding membership in Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, Urania Chapter No. 192, and Kedron Commandery, No. 18, Knight Templars, at Greensburg, and Syria Temple and Pennsylvania Consistory, No. 320, of Pittsburgh.
He devoted much time and study to the treatment of infantile and puerperal convulsions, and prepared a work on that subject, together with clinical reports on all kinds of eclampsy.