BIOS: CREEL, Dr. Milton P., 1885, Muhlenberg Co ---------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in USGENWEB Archives by: E-mail Registry submittor: Sandi Gorin Date: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:08 AM ------------------------------------------------------------ **************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. ***************************************************************************** KYBIOGRAPHIES: #8154: LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin. Appeared in the Central City Messenger and Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June, and July 1959. Dr. Milton Creel Was Railroader, Miner, Druggist, Peddler, Doctor in Central City DR. MILTON P. CREEL, one of the leading and hard-working physicians of Muhlenberg County, was born October 8, 1851, near Atlanta, Ga. He is the eldest of nine children born to Newton and Treacy [sic] J. (Balinger) Creel, natives of Fayette and Troup counties, GA, respectively, of French and English origin. Newton Creel was the son of John Creel. The latter was born in 1788, married Mary Belcher. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a farmer and son of Thomas Creel, who married a Miss Stamps. They were natives of Virginia and moved in an early day to Kentucky. Newton Creel served in the late war; was in Company D, Twentieth Alabama Regiment, and participated in the battles of New Hope Church, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He received a wound in the hip from which he died. Dr. Creel was reared on a farm and received a limited education. He did not attend school after nine years of age on account of the war. At sixteen he worked in the railway shops at Selma, AL, for three years; then in a baker shop two years; then in the drug business for about three or four years at Warrior, AL; then engaged in peddling for five years in KY, MO, AR, TN, and MS. In 1880 he attended lectures at Louisville Medical College, and graduated in the spring of 1882-83. He located in Central City, where he has since been successfully engaged. In 1877 he took charge of an engine for Central Coal & Iron Company for one year. He was married December 21, 1875, to Martha C. Prince, of Calhoun County, AL, a daugther of John Henry and Elizabeth (Gilleland) Prince, natives of North Carolina and of Irish descent. John H. Prince died of measles at Okalona, Miss., while in the Confederate service. He had a brother in the Federal army. He was the son of William Prince, who was born in Ireland, and who married Hannah Barton, of Hall County, GA. He was in the Indian war with Gen. Jackson. Dr. Creel had born to him three children: Charles H., Daisy J. and William B. The Doctor is a member of the F.& A.M. and K.of P. SCKY resource links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html Submitted by Sandi Gorin w/permission to post... Rev Jim Crowe