Carroll-Washington County IN Archives Biographies.....Milroy, Samuel 1780 - 1845
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEN. SAMUEL MILROY.

   Gen. Samuel Milroy was born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1780.
He was a lineal descendant of Robert Bruce. He was eleven years old when his
father died. He was married in Center county, Pennsylvania, where his wife died,
leaving a daughter and one son. In 1806 he went to Nelson county, Kentucky, and
there married Martha Huston in 1810, and to this union ten children were born,
seven sons and three daughers. [sic] In 1814 he moved to Washington county,
Indiana, and purchased land.

   He represented his county in the Constitutional Convention at Corydon,
Harrison county, on* the 10th of June, 1816. He was elected a representative to
the first Legislature, which met at Corydon, in December, 1816. Governor Posey
commissioned him a major in 1816. He was commissioned a colonel by Governor
Jennings in 1817; and a brigadier-general in 1819. He was speaker of the House
in 1821.

   In the spring of 1826 General Milroy came to this county and entered eighty
acres of land one mile east of Delphi, where, with a large family of grown
children, he made a home. In 1827-8, he presented a petition to the Legislature
for the organization of the county, and on January 7, 1828, an Act was passed,
authorizing the organization of the county and commissioners were named to lay
off the county by metes and bounds, and fix the seat of justice. General Milroy
was the originator of the name "Delphi," as the name for the county seat.
Delphi, as known in history, was a small Grecian city, situated on the southern
slope of Mt. Parnassus, and built in the form of an amphitheater. There are
several traditional theories as to the derivation of the name Delphi. One makes
it Tel phi, "the oracle of the sun," another says it is probably derived from
the ancient names of the sun. However, its antiquity cannot be questioned.

   General Milroy was the agent to sell town lots laid out. He held appointments
from the general government, to examine land offices and was register of the
land office at Crawfordsville. He was selected as representative of his
district, but resigned to retain his land office appointment. He was a delegate
to the first Democratic national convention ever held in the United States, at
Baltimore, in 1832. In 1835, he was appointed by President Jackson, one of the
board of visitors of the West Point Military, Academy. In 1837 and in 1838 he
was again elected representative from Carroll county to the Legislature. In 1836
he represented the counties of Carroll and Clinton in the state Senate. He
opposed the state borrowing ten millions of dollars to launch the internal
improvement system. In 1839 General Milroy was appointed agent for the Miami and
Pottawatomie Indians and in 1840 was successful in aiding the commissioners in
purchasing the great reservations of these tribes of Indians. In 1845 he was
again appointed to the same position by President Polk. He died while in office,
on the 26th of, May, 1845. Thus passed away one of the most noted men of the
Wabash valley.


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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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