Edwin S. Milton, M, D., one of the well known medical
practitioners of the city of Bunker Hill, Macoupin County, was born February
18, 1832, at Eliot, Maine, and is a son of Charles Milton, who was born at
Kittery, Maine, where his father had settled upon coming from England.
The father of Dr. Milton spent his whole life at Kittery, following the
trade of ship carpenter. There he died of typhoid fever at the age of 40
years, leaving his widow with a family of five children, our subject being
then two years of age. The other members of the family were: Mrs. Susan
Lakin, who died aged 72 years at her home in Massachusetts; James, a man of
education and of poetical ability, a contributor to many periodicals, who
was apprenticed to the hatter's trade, but who never followed it, and died
in Massachusetts, aged 65 years; Augustus, a carpenter at Chelsea,
Massachusetts; and Elbridge, who died in Massachusetts, aged 36 years. The
family was intensely loyal during the Civil War and all the sons desired to
enter the army. By lot they selected our subject as the one to remain at
home to look after home interests. They all served in a Massachusetts
regiment of infantry and remained until the war was over, much of their
service being under General Banks at New Orleans. Although none was taken
prisoner or wounded, all suffered from exposure which was the direct cause
of the death of the youngest.
Dr. Milton obtained his early
education in the Eliot Academy and was 20 years of age when he left home and
removed to Cincinnati. He there entered the American Medical College, also
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, completing the prescribed course in
both institutions in 1858. He then located at Bunker Hill, Macoupin County,
where he has continued in practice ever since.
In 1852 Dr. Milton
married Ann Dixon, who was born at Eliot, Maine, and who was a daughter of
William and Martha Dixon. Mrs. Milton died at Staunton, Macoupin County,
Illinois, July 2, 1900, aged 66 years. Three children were born to Dr. and
Mrs. Milton, the two survivors being: Caroline, wife of Alyin Godfrey of
Staunton; and Francis, a farmer, who married Julia Pierce of Bunker Hill
township, and has four children,— Pierce, Elsie, Floyd and Delphine.
In politics Dr. Milton is identified with the Republican party. For the
past six years he has been on the Board of Education and is one of the
city's representative men.
Extracted 2018 May 06 by Norma Hass from Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County, Illinois, published in 1904, pages 166-169.
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