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Collection Dates:
28 items.
This document describes a collection of materials held
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Posted to Internet: January 1998
Photographs: Box 1
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Bigraphical Note
A native of New York, James Cutler Milliman was born on January 28, 1847. His mother died when he was but two years old and at the age of nine he left home and began working for his room and board. He enlisted in the 46th New York Volunteer Infantry when he was eighteen. Mustered into service in September 1864, he was wounded during the siege of Petersburg on September 30, 1864. Milliman was shot in his left arm, an injury which required amputation four inches above the elbow resulting in his medical discharge in December of the same year.
In 1865, Milliman
(along with his father and brothers) moved to Iowa, settling in Harrison County.
For two years he attended the University of Iowa and was a member of the Irving
Institute before financial problems forced him to quit. Returning to Harrison
County he taught school for the next two years. This led to the position of
County Recorder which he held for eight years. In 1884, he established a real
estate and abstract office in Logan, Iowa. He also served as the town’s
mayor for six years. He was elected as a Republican representative to the 25th
General Assembly. From 1898 to 1902, Milliman was Iowa’s Lieutenant Governor.
In his later years, James Cutler Milliman moved to California. He died in Santa
Monica in 1933.
The papers of James
Cutler Milliman consist of twenty-eight items dating from 1865 to 1917. Photographs
and letters written to Annie Maria Hayden Whitney make up the collection. Milliman
had worked for the Hayden’s before enlisting in the army, and he maintained
a correspondence with their daughter. These letters discuss the University of
Iowa, Harrison County and Logan, Iowa, and Saratoga County and Edinburg, New
York.
Letters to Annie Maria Hayden Whitney.
Photographs.
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