BIO: Charles F. Milliken; New York State
surname: Milliken

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Charles F. Milliken, Appointed State Civil Service Commissioner by
Governor Odell, June 1, 1903, to succeed William Miller Collier, resigned, was
born in Canandaigua, August 27, 1854, and has lived all his life in that
village. He was educated at the Canandaigua Academy, and upon graduating from
that institution, became the assistant of his father, Nathan J. Milliken, in
the management of the "Ontario County Times," which the latter founded in
1852, and which has been a leading organ of the Republican party in Ontario
county since its birth. Mr. Millliken has continued his connection with that
paper, becoming a partner of his father in 1891, and upon the latter's death
in November, 1902, its editor and business manager. He was the Financial Clerk
of the State Senate in 1888 and 1889, served as Chairman of the Ontario County
Republican Committee for several years, was an Alternate Delegate in the
Republican National Convention of 1900, and has been otherwise active in
politics. He is President of the Ontario County Historical Society, and is
identified with the management of a number of other local institutions. In
1905 he was elected President of the Board.