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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. James Houston Milligan

Mr. James Houston Milligan has for many years served as a member of the Benevolent Society, and was born in Dumfries, in 1811. He was educated at New Abbey, and was brought up to business as a tailor in Maxwelltown. Mr. Milligan came to Port Chalmers, by the ship “Storm Cloud,” in 1862. Six months after his arrival, he commencod business in King Street, Dunedin, and removed two years later to George Street. In December, 1868, he settled in Oamaru, where he established the large business which he has since conducted, and which is more fully referred to elsewhere in these pages. Mr. Milligan has in his business been subject to the vicissitudes which frequently fall to the lot of enterprising men. In 1885, he was obliged to ask for concessions, but he has since paid the whole of his liabilities in full. The circumstance was duly appreciated by his creditors, who presented him with a handsome piece of silver plate in recognition of his commercial integrity. Mr. Milligan has been prominent as a zealous temperance reformer for forty yeas, and has been connected with the Gospel Temperance Mission, the Good Templar Order, and the prohibition movement in Dunedin and Oamaru. He is connected with St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, and has held office as an elder for many years. Mr. Milligan was married, in Dunedin, by the late Rev. Dr. Stuart, to a daughter of the late Mr. D. Smeaton, of Auchterarder, Scotland, and has four daughters and two sons. The eldest daughter, Mrs. McFadgen, died in 1890.