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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.   These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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A. C. MILLIKEN, manufacturer, Pittsburgh. James Foster Milliken, the grandfather of A. C. Milliken, was a pioneer of Mifflin county, Pa., and one of the first iron-manufacturers of Pennsylvania. The father, Samuel Milliken, was also in the iron business, but more extensively dealt in lumber, supplying the railroad demand. A. C. Milliken received his education at the Pennsylvania Military Academy; also at Prof. Hastings’ Mantua Academy and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., graduating at the latter place in the class of 1869. Thus equipped he entered mercantile career in the lumber business with his father in Clearfield county, Pa. After the great fire at Osceola, in 1875, he came to Pittsburgh, where his business abilities were soon recognized, and he became the manager of the Millvale Iron & Steel works; engaged in the manufacture of boilers and tanks with Messrs. S. B. Rheam & Co., which firm he was the founder of. He is also identified with the Pennsylvania Manufacturing, Mining & Supply company, Granite Roofing company and T. H. Nevin company; was also founder of the Penn Foundry company. In Millvale Mr. Milliken was a councilman for a number of years, and in 1885 was elected burgess of the borough, which office he still holds.

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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.

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