Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 456.
 
T. A. MILLIORN

     one of the representative citizens of Junction City, was born in Campbell
county, Virginia, in August, 1828, a son of John and Mary W. (Lee)  Milliorn,
who were also Virginians by birth. The father was a wagon-maker by trade, and
also paid some attention to agriculture; in 1833 he removed to Monroe county,
Tennessee where he lived until 1843, removing then to Jackson county, Missouri.
He crossed the plains in 1852, and arriving in Oregon he located a donation
claim one mile west of Junction City, and engaged in farming.
     Our subject remained with his parents until he had attained his majority;
he had learned the wagon-maker's trade, and manufactured the vehicle, in which
he and three companions crossed the plains to California, in the summer of 1849.
The trip was fraught with the usual hardships and dangers; on Feather river they
were caught in a snowstorm, and preserved the lives of their oxen by feeding
them bread and bacon cooked together. They pushed ahead, and reaching Lawson's
they sold their cattle, and digging out canoes, went down the river to
Sacramento City.  Here they built a skiff, and went up the Sacramento river to
Marysville, where Mr. Milliorn went to work at carpentering at $12 per day; for
three months he followed this occupation, and then went to the mines on Trinity
river, where he passed the summer, making from $15 to $18 per day. In the fall
of 1850, he bought a pack-train of sixteen animals, and until 1852 packed from
Colusa to Trinity and Yreka mines. July 12, 1852, he arrived in the Willamette
valley, and took up a claim west, of Junction, on which his father settled later
in the year; he then made another claim of 160 acres, which became the site of
Junction City, and later added 140 acres by purchase. In 1870 he sold ninety
acres to Ben Holladay for railroad purposes, and afterward laid out several
additions to the town, until the original claim and purchase are reduced to
forty acres.  He owns 136 acres, three miles southeast of the town, where he has
been engaged in agriculture; he has also followed his trade at Junction City. In
1888 he rented his land, and retired from the arduous labors, which had for so
many years consumed his time and energies.
     Mr. Milliorn was married in Lane county in 1863, to Miss Eliza K. Aubrey, a
daughter of T. N. Aubrey, a pioneer of 1850. Mrs. Milliorn died in 1877, leaving
four children: Nina A., wife of D. C. Gore; Cora Lee, wife of William Burt;
Frank B., an extensive stock-dealer in eastern Oregon; and James B., who died
when nearly seven years old. In 1878, Mr. Milliorn married Miss Mary L. Hill, a
native of Iowa, and the result of this union is two children: Effie Gertrude and
Merle. Politically, Mr. Milliorn affiliates with the Democratic party, but he
has always confined his energies to private affairs. He is a member of the
Masonic order, and in both business and social circles he is highly respected by
the entire community.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.