I thought I would type different parts of the article I found of my great-great grandfather . . . just in case I lose the paper. Anyway, the paper also had a short biography of him. That is what I'm going to type today.
The deceased was in the fifty-fourth year of his age when death came. He was born at Callis, Me., and for years followed the life of a sailor. Quitting the seas he went West and located in Iowa, where he later led the life of a farmer. His wife's health failing, he came to Colorado and Utah, following the business of freighting. In the meantime he went to Idaho for a short time, where he lost his first wife, the mother of his only child, Herbert W. Millburn of Price. Later and about twenty years ago, he purchased the property where he has since been engaged in business. He went to the Klondike, however, when the gold excitement broke out there. His second wife, who died about twelve years ago, was Sadie, the daughter of Mrs. Sarah J. Warren. His surviving immediate relatives are the son and two sisters, one living in Iowa and the other in Wyoming. The sister from Iowa, Mrs. Lizzie Beckwith and a nice of Herbert, the son, came in on No. 3 last evening, arriving too late for the funeral. The deceased leaves an estate supposed to be of the value of about twenty-five thousand dollars.
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