Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Millikan, Allen R, 1868 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Allen R. Millikan, a successful farmer of Olathe township, was born in Johnson
county, Kansas, April 5, 1868. He is a son of Branson and Harriet (Shoop)
Millikan, both natives of Indiana. Branson Millikan first came to Johnson
county, Kansas, in the fall of 1857. The following spring he brought his family
here and preempted land. They came by river steamboat, landing at Westport, Mo.
Branson Millikan was a successful farmer and spent his life in that occupation
after coming to Johnson county. He died in 1890 and his wife died in 1903, and
their remains are buried in Olathe cemetery. Allen R. Millikan was reared to
manhood in Johnson county and educated in the Lone Elm school district and has
made farming his principal occupation. He has a fine farm of 160 acres, located
in Olathe township about a mile west of Bonita. This is the place that his
father homesteaded in 1858. It is one of the best improved farms in the county
and presents a beautiful appearance, with its large modern residence surrrounded
by a beautiful lawn studded here and there with imposing evergreens. Mr.
Millikan is an up-to-date farmer and has been very successful. He was married in
April, 1894, to Miss Helen Kelly, a daughter of Alexander Kelly, a Johnson
county pioneer, the personal history of whom appears in this volume in
connection with the history of the Kelly family. To Mr. and Mrs. Millikan have
been born three children, as follows: Madeline; Branson and William Allen. Mr.
Millikan is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Olathe, No. 59,
joining in 1892, and belongs to the Grange at Lone Elm, joining this order in
1886. All the improvements on his farm except the house which was built in 1884,
have been made by Allen R. Millikan. Mr. Millikan is an extensive feeder of
cattle and hogs and has a silo 16x33 feet and a 40x60 feet concrete feeding
floor and a shed over a part of the floor is 24x60 feet.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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