Carroll-Washington County IN Archives Biographies.....Milroy, John B. 1820 - 1896
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MAJ. JOHN B. MILROY.

   Maj. John B. Milroy was born in Washington county, Indiana, January 8, 1820.
He was a son of Gen. Samuel Milroy. With his father he came to Carroll county in
1826. He was a farmer and lived on a farm two and one-half miles east of Delphi.
He was married to Matilda Stansell, a daughter of Enoch Stansell, June 17, 1845,
and to this union were born three children, one son and two daughters. His wife
died about 1870.

   Major Milroy represented this county in the Legislature in 1852, 1862 and
1864. He was county auditor, by appointment, to fill out the unexpired term of
E. Hedge, who died in 1857. He was elected county treasurer in 1870, serving one
term. In the War of 1861 he enlisted and was captain of Company A, from this
county, of the Ninth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, for three years and
was promoted to major. He declined the position of lieutenant-colonel of the
Seventy-second Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He died at his home in
South Delphi, November 29, 1896.


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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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