Background
Millikin, Benjamin L. was born on December 24, 1851 in Trumbull Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Christopher and Mary Millikin.
Millikin, Benjamin L. was born on December 24, 1851 in Trumbull Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Christopher and Mary Millikin.
Bachelor of Arts, Allegheny College, 1874, Master of Arts, 1877. Doctor of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, 1879. Post-graduate work hospitals of Europe.
Resident physical and surgical, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1879-1880, Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, 1880-1881. Resident surgeon, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, 1881-1882. Appointed visiting ophthalmologist, Charity Hospital, Cleveland, 1884.
Visiting ophthalmologist, 1892-1912, senior visiting ophthalmologist, since 1912, Lakeside Hospital.
Appointed professor diseases of the eye, medical department Western Reserve University, 1893, and became senior professor ophthalmology same. Dean and Executive officer medical faculty, Western Reserve University, 1900-1912.
Married Julia West. Severance, 1891.