The biographical encyclopœdia of Ohio of the nineteenth century:

BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
American Union Lodge, No. I, at Marietta. This lodge
is the oldest west of the Allegheny mountains, having been
chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, in Feblruary, I776. Among the many Worshipful Masters may be
named lion. Lewis Cass, ex-Governor Meigs, and General
Rufus Putnam. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows
and Red Men Orders. In I870 he was elected a Representative to the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of Ohio; also Great Sachem or presiding officer, for the State of Ohio, of the Improved Order of Red
Men; and in I87I Representative to the United States
Great Council of the same order. He was married at
Marietta, in I864, to Margaret, daughter of Jacob Radenbaugh.
porte county, and re-elected in I85O. In I865 he was
elected Mayor of the city of Laporte. In I875 he was
elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. Ill November, I829, in the village of Delaware, Ohio, Mr. Millikan
married Rachel Abbott. January 28th, I834, at Newark,
Ohio, he married Amanda Holines, third daughter of Judge
Alexander Holines. January 28th, 1841, he married Emma
Cleveland, third daughter of'the late Hardin Cleveland, of
Elkhart county, Illdiana. In April, I865, Mr. Miliikan
married Mary B. Bostnick, of Waterloo, daughter of John
Robinson, of Chillicothe. Mr. Millikan has five adult
children living.
LLER RELL, CuARLn ES B., Physician and Surgeon,
(c}out Owas born ill Holmes county, Ohio, September
~'l) f g 27th, I839' His parents, Hanson and Sarah
Ferrell, of Franco-English descent, removed firom
Virginia and located in Jefferson county, Ohio,
where they were mar-ried. They soon after removed into the wilds of Holmes county, of which they were
among the earlier settlers. Dr. Ferrell entered school at
an early age, and by untiring industry and application received a liberal education in the common branches. Being
a farmer's son, school-days wer-e limited to but a small portion of the year, and the remainder of the time was spent
ini assisting his father. At the age of sixteen a taste for
medical literature developed itself, and he borrowed from a
friend Wilson's Anatomy, Carpenter-'s Physiology, and
Kane's Chemistry, and commenced the study of medicine.
The leisure hours on rainy days and at meal time were
occuIied in following the bent of his mind. A vacant
house on his father's farm served as medical college and
dissecting room, and here the long nights were faithfully
occupied in reading and dissections. He spent thus three
years, as farmler, school-boy, medical student, and instructorthe two latter being carried on clandestinely, for a resui-rectioiiist-would have been look~ed upon w,ith horror in that
locality, and he would doubtless have felt the strong arm
of the law if he had been discovered. When nineteen
years of age he entered the office of Di-. Isaac Putnam, of
Mt. Holly, Ohio, and continued his studies here, and in
I86o at the Ohiio Medical College in Cincininati. In March,
I86I, being at the bottom of his financial resources, he was
obliged to begin the practice of his profession. Through
the kindness of his instructor he was permitted to commence
business in his office, and met with good success. He acted
as surgeon in the beginning of the war, I862-63, visiting
the b)attle-fields of Pittsburgh Landing, Fort Donelson, and
Murlfreesboro', and bearing the greater portion of his own expenses. He also commanded a company of the " Squirrel
Hunters," who went to protect Cincinnati from invasion by
Kirby Smith. Resuming practice in the intervals, in October, i863, he removed to Nashville, Ohio, and entered with
vigor into practice. Here he was very successful, and
~ ILLIKAN, WILLIAM, Journalist, was born, Sep ternber 22d, I8O6, in Coleraiii township, Ross
county, Ohio. He is the eldest son of John and
- Mary Millikan, who moved to Delaware county
* o o3~ in I89.. When the war of 1812 was declared,
his father was commissioned first lieutenant of a
company raised in Delaware county. During the severe
w int er o t a of I834 many of the soldiers died from what woas
In nowf 3 a s the c old plague. Among those who succumbed
was Lieutenant Millikan, then stationed at Chillicothe. The
subject of this sketch rec e ived his elementary education in
the indiffer ent country sch ools of pioneer t in m es. W hen h e
ent ered the printing office of Ezra Grisunold, his education
began in earnest. In the fall of I83o Mr. Millikan joined
Mr. Griswold in the publication of the Ohio State Gazette.
In the spring of I 832 he dissolved his connection with the
Gazette and start ed the Wiestern Galaxy, a Whig paper,
at Marion, Ohio. In May of I832 he went to So uth Bend,
Indiana, where he establishe d t he Free Press, also a Whig
paper, wjith which he supported General William Henry
Harrison for the Preside ncy. For a part of the time Mr.
Millikan was associated with his brot her in the publication
of the _or ee Press. In I845 he sold his paper to Schuyler
Colfax and A. W. West, and purcha sed a n interest in the
]~ala/tazoo Tel%gra~p,. He remained in the Telegraph
establishm ent for two years, we he he disposed of his in terest and joine d h is brother John as an equal partser, in the
conduct of the La Porte County (Indiana) iW hig. After a
con nec tion of seven years with the WgtptC, he engaged in
other business. Ill October, I858, Mr. Millikan yielded to
the solicitation of friends and returned to Ohio, establishing
the Fayette County Hei-a/cd, a Republican paper, published
at Washington Court House. He has made the -Herald
strong and influential, and successful as a business venture.
He has taken his youngest son, William, into partnership
iln the business and editorial management of the paper.
Besides pursuing his vocation as a journalist, Mr. Millikan
has been active as an individual member of his party. In
I849 he was elected to the Indiana Legislature from La
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