Carroll-Washington-Jasper County IN Archives Biographies.....Milroy, Robert H. 1816 - 1890
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GEN. ROBERT H. MILROY.

   Gen. Robert H. Milroy was born on June 11, 1816, in Washington county,
Indiana, and with his father, Gen. Samuel Milroy, came to Carroll county,
Indiana, in 1826. He attended the Norwich Military Academy in Vermont,
graduating from that institution in 1843. He attended the law school at
Bloomington University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Law. He entered the
service in the Mexican War, as captain of Company C, a volunteer company from
Carroll county, in 1846. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in
1850. He located in 1854 in Rensselaer, Indiana. He was the colonel of the Ninth
Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. He was commissioned
brigadier-general, February 6, 1862, and a major general, in November, 1862. He
served during the war. In 1872 he went to Washington territory and held by
appointment the office of superintendent of Indian affairs. He died in the state
of Washington, March 29, 1890.


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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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