Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND Biography - Milligan

This biography submitted by Diane Owens, DHOwens@aol.com, on 1 Mar 1999.
NDGenWeb Archivist Garnett J. Zsedeny, jzsed@worldnet.att.net.

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Copyright (c) 1999 Diane Owens

EMILINE ELLEN MILLIGAN was born on 31 October 1835 in Swissvale, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania,.  She married ROBERT CAROTHERS on 17 June 1858 in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, son of ROBERT CAROTHERS and SARAH SHAW.

        Emiline grew up near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where her family had
joined the Presbyterian ministry in the western frontier.  She and her 
husband had six children.  Her husband, a minister and president of the 
College of the Blind in Vinton, Iowa, died leaving Emiline a widow at the 
age of forty-seven years.

        Emiline then returned to Pennsylvania for a short time before
leaving by rail for Dakota Territoty with her five children between the ages
of twenty-five and ten years. She was charactarized as a woman of great 
physical and moral strength. The family live in a sod home before moving 
into a traditional house. He children served teh community both in civic 
and church affairs.

Emiline Ellen MIlligan Carothers died on 17 April 1928  at the age of 93 in
Grand Forks, North Dakota.   (see CAROTHERS)
 
        Children of ROBERT CAROTHERS and EMILINE MILLIGAN are:
           
                i.      ROBERT MILLIGAN9 CAROTHERS, b. 16 Apr 1859, 
        Allegheny Co.   
        PA; d. ND; m.   
        HELEN FULTON.   
        ii.  MARY EMMA CAROTHERS, b. 1861, PA. d. 1879, Vinton, Iowa.   
        iii.  CHARLES CAROTHERS, b. 1863, PA; d. Santa Ana, CA.   
        6.      iv.     SARAH MARGARETTA CAROTHERS, b. 17 Mar 1869, Turtle 
        Creek, Allegheny Co, PA; d. 20 Oct 1962, Grand Forks, ND.   
                v.      JOSEPHINE ROBERTA CAROTHERS, b. 1871, PA;
        m. ALEXANDER G. BURR.   
                vi.     WILHELMINA CAROTHERS, b. 1875, PA.   
        Unmd/Librarian/worked w/ Andrew Carnegie in est. public libraries 
        in ND.