Nathan C. Milligan

Virtually nothing exists on Nathan C. Milligan, the second son and third child, of William and Isabelle Milligan. He was born in 1846 in Canada and died in the morning of January 31, 1883 of consumption (TB) at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, NY. The tombstone that his sister Nettie purchased in 1920 incorrectly lists the year of his death as 1882. He is not buried in Riverside.

A few other bits of information about Nathan exist. In 1866 he first appears in Rochester, living at his father's house on Lake Ave, near Spencer. His occupation is listed as laborer. The next time he appears is in 1871 when he is listed as a turner and lived on Lake Avenue. In 1882 he is boarding at 9 Otsego Street (where Kodak Office is now) and works as a machinist at 116 Mill Street. He worked for Junius Judson & Son, the inventors of the steam governors used in locomotives and ships. In the 1880 US Census the only one in which I can located him, he is a tin peddler.

There is no record of his burial at any of the public cemeteries nor at any of the pauper cemeteries of the time. Given the record that does exist on Nathan, it is very unlikely that he had means.