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MILLIGAN

Massachusetts commission to the World's Fair at Vienna in 1873, and was one of the jurors at the exhibition. He traveled in Hunj^ary, Russia, Roumania and Turkey, painted in Italy, in 1874- 75, and returned to America in the latter year.

Early in 1877 he set- tled in Paris, and at the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war in 1877 engaged as the corres|>ondent of the New York Her- ald at the seat of war in Roumania. He afterward became war corre8ix)ndent of the London Daily Netvs and sent il- lustrations to the London Oraphic.

For Ins services dur- ing this war he re- ceived the Roumanian iron cross in 1877, the military orders of Chevalier of St. Anne and of St. Stanishis from the Russian government in 1877, and the war medals of Roumania and Rus- sia. He was a juror of fine arts at the World's Fair. Paris, in 1878 ; received a medal at the ex- position in New Orleans, 1885 ; one from the American Art association in 1887, and another at Paris in 1889. He was elected a National Academician in 1885. He was director of the decorations at the World's Columbian exposition, 1893-93. and after its opening directed all cere- monies, festivities and entertainments. He was a special correspondent of the London Times and Harper's Weekly at Manila, July to October, 1898. He was elected a member of the Sons of the Rev- olution : the Society of American Artists ; the American Water Color society ; the Institute of Paintersof London, and an honorary member of the Architectural League of New York ; and re- ceived the decoration of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor from the French government in 1901. He was married March 11, 1879, to Eliza- beth Greely, daughter of Horatio Merrill of Port- land, Maine. He published a translation of Tol- stoi's " Sebastopol" (1889), and is the author of "A Capillary Crime and Other Stories "(1872); " The Danube " (1892); " The Expedition to the Philip- pines " (1899). His art work includes the decora- tion of Trinity church, Boston, Mass. ; the New York state building, the Manufacturers' building. Music Hall and the Art buildingat the World's Co- lumbian exposition in 1893, and a lunette in a bank at Pittsburgh. Pa. He designed the costumes for the representation of the " CEdipus Tyrannus " of Sophocles, given by Harvard students at Cam- bridge in 1880. Among his paintings are por-

traits of Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and Samuel L. Clemens, exhibited at the National Academy of Design (1877); Bashi Bazoiik (\S7S) ; Tlie Win- dow Seat (1884); A Difficult Duet (1886); At the Inn, Union League club ; A Cozy Comer, Metro- politan Museum of Fine Arts ; Between Tico Fires. National Gallery of British Art, London (1891); Unconverted and The Expansionist, Paris (1900); and Accusation of Witchcraft, Royal Academy (1901).

MILLIQAN, John Jones, representative, was born on Bohemia Manor, in Cecil county, Md.)

Dec. 10, 1795; .son of Rol)ert and (Jones)

Milligiin, grandson of George Milligan of Ayre- shire, Scotland, and a descendant, maternally, of Mary Dyer, the Quaker martyr. He matriculated at the College of New Jersey in the class of 1814, but was dismissed just before graduation for a college prank. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1818, and practised in New Castle county, Del., until 1828, when he retired to his country estate near Wilmington. He was the Whig representative from Delaware in the 23d, 24th and 25th congresses, 1833-39, and was judge of the superior court of Delaware from Sept. 19, 1839. until Sept. 16, 1864, when he resigned. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1834. He died in Phila- delphia, Pa., April 20, 1875.

MILLIQAN, Robert, educator, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, July 25, 1814 ; son of John and Margaret Milligan. His parents immi- grated to the United States in 1818 and settled in Trumbull county, Ohio, where he assisted his father on the farm until 1831, when an internal injury compelled him to abandon physical labor. He attended Dr. Gamble's classical academy in Pennsylvania, 1831-35, and became a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He opened and conducted a cla.ssical school at Flat Rock, Ky., 1837-39, and while there becameaCampbell- ite. He left Kentucky to enter Yale college, but on reaching Western Pennsylvania he was per- suaded by some disciples to enter Washington col- lege, where he was graduated in 1840, and in 1842 he was formally ordained by the venerable Thomas Campbell. He was professor of English literature in Washington college, 1840-50, and profes.sor of chemistry and natural philosophy there, 1850-52. He was married in January, 1848, to Ellen Blaine, daughter of James Russell. He was professor of natural philosophy and chem- istry in Indiana university, 1852-54; and pro- fessor of mathematics and astronomy in Bethany college, Va., 1854-59, where he co-operated with Alexander Campbell in building up the institu- tion, and served as associate editor of the Mill- ennial Harbinger. He was president of Ken- tucky university, formerly Bacon college Har-