Bio of Milligan, F. H.  M.D., (b.1830) Wabasha Co., MN
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Milligan, M.D., F. H., office and consulting rooms corner of Main and
Pembroke streets. Dr. F. H. Milligan was born in Philadelphia, December 8,
1830, removed to St. Louis with his parents in 1835, completed his course
in the high school of the latter city in 1846, and subsequently entered
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating M.D. in 1851. The
class of that year contained many names that have become eminent in the
medical profession; among whom may be mentioned Dr. Thomas A. Turner, Dr.
Fleet, surgeon U. S. N., and Dr. James A. Meigs, who has a national
reputation as a medical author. Dr. Milligan immediately located for
practice in St. Louis, was in that city for two years, and then removed to
this place September 1, 1853, where he has now been practicing his
profession a little over thirty years. With the exception of Dr. H.
Murphy, of St. Paul, Dr. Milligan has practiced medicine more years in
this state than any other physician now living. The doctor was the
original president of the Wabasha County Medical Society, assisted at the
organization of the State Medical Society in 1868, and was centennial
president of the State Society, holding office from February, 1876, to
June, 1877. As president of the society in 1877, Dr. Milligan urged upon
that body the importance of securing and passage of a state pharmacy law,
prohibiting all druggists and apothecaries, who could not pass a
prescribed pharmaceutical examination, from dispensing medicines. The
recommendation was acted upon by the State Medical Society, and a
committee presented the matter to the state legislature only to have it
slaughtered in committee-room. When the doctor located for practice in
Wabasha his circuit rivaled that of the historic "Methodist circuit
rider," extending southward to the Iowa line, eastward to Chippewa Falls,
west to Faribault, and northward toward Red Wing. It was three years later
before any other physician located within the present county limits. Dr.
Milligan was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 3d Minn. Inf., October
15, 1861, and served until April of the following year, when he resigned
and returned home. In December, 1864, he was again in the service, holding
commission as assistant surgeon in the 10th Minn. Inf., and remained with
that command until it was mustered out at the close of the war, when he
returned home and resumed his active practice. Dr. F. H. Milligan in 1853
married Miss Lucy Ann, second daughter of Alexis Bailly, of this city, who
died in 1865, leaving no children. May 1, 1866, the doctor married Miss S.
D. Abrams, of Steubenville, Ohio. They have had four children, two only of
whom are living, Dora B., born December 19, 1868, and Wm. Francis, born
October 15, 1870. The family residence is on the bank of the Mississippi,
just above the city, within the corporate limits, in what is here known as
the old Judge Van Dyke homestead.