Background
Killits, John Milton was born on October 7, 1858 in Lithopolis, Ohio, United States. Son of Andrew W. and Clarissa (Crumley) Killits.
Killits, John Milton was born on October 7, 1858 in Lithopolis, Ohio, United States. Son of Andrew W. and Clarissa (Crumley) Killits.
Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1880, Master of Arts, 1887, Doctor of Laws, 1914. Bachelor of Laws, Columbian (now George Washington University, 1885, Master of Laws, 1886.
Born in Lithopolis, Ohio, Killits received an Bachelor of Arts from Williams College in 1880, an Bachelor of Laws from Columbian University in 1885, an Master of Laws from Columbian University in 1886, and an Master of Arts from Williams College in 1887. He published a daily and weekly newspaper in Red Oak, Iowa, 1880-1883, and worked in the War Department at Washington, starting March 1884, before becoming private secretary to General William Babcock Hazen, chief signal officer, United States. Army. He was in private practice in Bryan, Ohio from 1888 to 1904, also working as a prosecuting attorney of Williams County, Ohio from 1893 to 1899.
He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas, 3rd Ohio District from 1905 to 1910.
On June 21, 1910, Killits was nominated by President William H. Taft to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio created by 36 Statistics 202. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 24, 1910, and received his commission the same day.
He assumed senior status on October 6, 1928, serving in that capacity until his death, in 1938. Killits was married to Alice Nourse Steuart, June 21, 1887, at Washington, District of Columbia, and had two daughters.
He was a Mason, Chi Psi, Phi Delta Phi, Knights of Pythias, and a Republican.
Killits had hobbies including carpentry, motor boating, the study of sociology and the history of the bible.
Member Charter Commissioners, City of Toledo, 1914, 28.
Married Alice North. Steuart, June 21, 1887.