Dan Millikin

As printed in 1905

DAN MILLIKIN, M. D.

The subject of this brief review is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Butler county, has been a member of the faculty of Miami Medical College for the past twenty years, while his genial personality and deep appreciation of all that is true and good in humanity has made him in a significant sense humanity’s friend and gained to him unequivocal popularity among old and young. His is the buoyant, gracious spirit of perennial youth, and by temperament and mental power he is an optimist.

Dr. Millikin is a native of Fairfield township, where he was born on the 17th of April, 1845, being a son of John M. and Mary G. (Hough) Millikin, the former of whom was a lawyer by profession and engaged in practice until he had attained the age of forty years, when he withdrew from his professional work and devoted the residue of his active life to agricultural pursuits. He died in April, 1884. ank3 his devoted wife survived him a little more than fifteen years. The Millikin genealogy is traced back to Scotch-Irish origin, but the paternal grandmother of the Doctor was of stanch old New England stock, she having been a Minor and a representative of ancestors who came from England soon after the arrival of the Mayflower and settled in New England.

Dr. Millikin received his early education in the public schools of Hamilton, this county, being graduated as a member of the class of 1862, and in 1863-4-5 he was a student in the Sheffield School, of Yale College. He was then matriculated in the Miami Medical College, in Cincinnati, and was graduated in 1875, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In his youthful days he set up a small laboratory in his home and gave private study to chemical work and investigation, this being in a measure a preparation for his collegiate studies. Immediately after his graduation Dr. Millikin established himself * in the practice of his profession in Hamilton, and his devotion to his work has been unflagging, while his success has come as the result of his ability and assiduous application. He has taught in his alma water, Miami Medical College, since 1884. He first held the chair of medical chemistry, and after two years of service in this capacity he assumed the chair of materia medical, while since 1893 he gives only a short course each year on medical jurisprudence. The Doctor is not only essentially a man of science and of high professional attainments, but is also a man of letters, having a recondite knowledge along general lines of literary thought. His' services are much in demand in connection with lecturing on topics far removed from medical science. His greatest delight aside from professional work is the elaboration of a popular lecture and its subsequent delivery. No better idea of the genial and kindly nature of the Doctor can be given than that expressed in his own cheery words: I ‘train’ with young people for the most part, and I trust that the new crop, now ten-year-olds, will love me when we are all ten years older.” In politics Dr. Millikin is not partisan, and in state and national affairs he usually exercises his franchise in support of the nominees of the Republican party.

On the 9th of October, 1866, Dr. Millikin was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Hunter, of Hamilton. They have two children. Dr. Mark Millikin, who was born on the 23d of March, 1868, and who is now engaged in the practice of his profession in Hamilton, and Mary, who was born on the

19th of October, 1870, and who is now the wife of Thomas Beckett, a respected citizen of Hamilton.

As printed in Centennial History of Butler County, Ohio (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.