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GEORGE MILLICAN. The subject of the sketch, a view of whose farm and residence finds a place in this work, was born in Otsego county, New York, [[November 22]], 1833, but when | GEORGE MILLICAN. The subject of the sketch, a view of whose farm and residence finds a place in this work, was born in Otsego county, New York, [[November 22]], 1833, but when | ||
| - | quite young he was taken by his father to South Hanover, Jefferson county, Indiana, and there was educated. In the year [[1854]], he crossed the plains to California, assisting to drive a band of cattle to the Sacramento valley. After a short stay in Marysville, he removed to Siskiyou county, and engaged in mining operations until [[1860]]. We next find Mr. Millican mining in Idaho, where he arrived in the fall of [[1861]]. Leaving that Territory for San Francisco, July 1, [[1862]], by overland route, on the way he purchased the land on which he now resides, returning to the claim in the fall. In [[1868]], he established a cattle ranch at Prineville, it being the first in that locality, and moved to it in [[1870]], returning to his old home on the [[McKenzie River]], after two years residence there. In [[1880]] he removed to Salem and embarked in the butcher business, but, | + | quite young he was taken by his father to South Hanover, Jefferson county, Indiana, and there was educated. In the year [[1854]], he crossed the plains to California, assisting to drive a band of cattle to the Sacramento valley. After a short stay in Marysville, he removed to Siskiyou county, and engaged in mining operations until [[1860]]. We next find Mr. Millican mining in Idaho, where he arrived in the fall of [[1861]]. Leaving that Territory for San Francisco, July 1, [[1862]], by overland route, on the way he purchased the land on which he now resides, returning to the claim in the fall. In [[1868]], he established a cattle ranch at Prineville, it being the first in that locality, and moved to it in |
| + | [[1870]], returning to his old home on the [[McKenzie River]], after two years residence there. In [[1880]] he removed to Salem and embarked in the butcher business, but, May 20, [[1884]], sold out and returned to the McKenzie, his [[Walterville|home]] being located sixteen miles east of [[Eugene]] City, where he owns two hundred and eight acres of valuable land, besides two hundred and twenty acres more on which he pastures his herds, at Prineville. Married, firstly, Susan S. Ritchey, and has three | ||
children, viz: Madella, Maggie and Walter; and secondly, Ada C. Bradley. | children, viz: Madella, Maggie and Walter; and secondly, Ada C. Bradley. | ||
"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling, publisher, 1884. pg. 491. | "Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling, publisher, 1884. pg. 491. | ||
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