Wills: MILLIGAN, William Henry, 1896:  Allegheny Co, PA

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Petition of Frank Milligan for Letters of Administration on the Estate of
William Henry Milligan Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Orphan Court Record 
#176, December Term 1896

To S. P. Conner, Esq., Register of Wills and Ex Officio Clerk of the Orphan's
Court, in and for the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania. In the
matter of the Administration of the goods, chattels, rights and credits of
William Henry Milligan presumed to be dead.  The petition of Frank Milligan
respectfully represents: That William Henry Milligan was a resident of the
City of Allegheny, in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania. 
That he was a teamster and was employed for some considerable time by Fred
Gwinner contractor of said City of Allegheny.  That he disappeared from the
said City of Allegheny and the County of Allegheny sometime about July 1886,
(petitioner cannot state the exact time) and from thence hitherto has been
continuously absent from the City of Allegheny and the County of Allegheny
and petiti oner supposes said William Henry Milligan to be dead on account of
absence for seven or more years from said City of Allegheny and County of
Allegheny, which was the place of his last domicile within this Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.  Petitioner has made inquiries as to what has become of said
William Henry Milligan but all the information he has been able to gain is
that he left, or disappeared from, the City of Allegheny and County of
Allegheny about ten years ago.

That the said William Henry Milligan was the son of Robert Milligan who died
prior to the year 1873 and Mary Ann Milligan who died sometime in January
1873.  That up to the time he disappeared from the City of Allegheny and the
County of Allegheny he had never been married.  On June 27, 1886, George
Washington Milligan, the eldest brother of said William Henry Milligan, died
intestate, unmarried and without issue and left no estate.

[Page 2] Washington  Milligan, to wit, sometime in July 1886, said William
Henry Milligan came to the home of this petitioner in the County of Allegheny
which was the last time petitioner ever saw him, and from that day to this
petitioner does not know what become of him and has never heard from, him in
any manner.  That said George Washington Milligan, William Henry Milligan,
Edward Milligan and your petitioner were all the children and heirs of said
Robert Milligan and Mary Ann Milligan, their parents, who died as above
stated and left no estate whatsoever.  That on Dec, 8, 1895, said Edward
Milligan a brother of said William Henry Milligan died in the said City of
Allegheny and County of Allegheny intestate, unmarried and without issue and
left personal estate to the value of about $827.54, which after payment of
the debts of said decedent and the costs of administration, will leave a
balance for distribution amoung his heirs of about $600.00.  That said
decedent left no real estate whatever so far as known to petitioner.  That
your petitioner and said William Henry Milligan, if living, are the next of
kin and heirs at law of said Edward Milligan, deceased.  That your petitioner
is the next of kin, the only living brother of said William Henry Milligan
supposed to be dead, and is advised that he is entitled to receive letters of
administration on the estate of the said William Henry Milligan, supposed to
be dead.  Therefore the said Frank Milligan, Petitioner named, respectfully
applies for letters of administration upon the goods, chattels, rights and
credits of which said William Henry Milligan died possessed.

Petitioner therefor prays you, S.B. Conner, Register of Wills, etc., in and
for the County of Allegheny, to forthwith certify this petition to the
Orphans' County of said Allegheny.

NOTE:  Letters of Administration were issued to Frank Milligan in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania Orphan Court # 57, February Term 1897