John H. Milhollin, one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of this section, passed quietly away at his home near California creek on Monday. General decline from his ripe age was the cause, although an injury from a fall recently may have contributed. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Purdy's chapel with Rev. C. B. Seely officiating, and burial was made in the family plot in Blaine cemetery. The services were largely attended because of the great esteem in which he was held by everybody.
John Hinkle Milhollin was born in Springfield, Ohio, May 31, 1844, and would have been 87 years old next May. The family, consisting of father and mother and six sons and one daughter, came westward with horses and covered wagons to the territory of Minnesota and arrived on the banks of the Mississippi river not far from Minneapolis July 4, 1853, where they settled. The first four sons of the family volunteered in the *Civil war and served from 1861 to 1865. Deceased was married to Miss Mary Jane McPherson, a native of Ontario, Canada, at St. Cloud, Minn. Following the death of the father, the mother with three sons, Clint, John and James, came to Washington territory in 1885, locating at Blaine five years before the City of Blaine was incorporated. The mother and eldest son passed on about 30 years ago and James in 1928. The brothers built the first wharf in Blaine for the Cain brothers and also engaged in other construction work here.
The widow and one daughter, Rea, survive. Mr. Milhollin was a man of strict integrity, honest, kind, and a true friend. He always took a keen interest in government and the betterment of mankind, and always lent his influence and force toward better things in this line. He was a generous, patient and loving husband and father. He had a host of friends who were attracted to him by his integrity and fairness to everybody.
*(no record of military service has been found)
