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William Henry Milburn was the son of Nicholas Milburn, was born in Philadelphia. The Milburn family came from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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William Henry Milburn was the son of Nicholas Milburn, was born in Philadelphia. The Milburn family came from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
William's early education was obtained in his native city and in Jacksonville, Illinois, to which place, after financial losses, the family removed in 1838. When Milburn was five years old, the sight of his left eye was destroyed by a piece of glass thrown by a playmate. Inflammation spread to the right eye, and after several years of bleeding, cupping, leeching, and burning with caustic, he was almost blind. He attempted, however, to secure an education, though able to read only by holding a book very close to his eye. In Jacksonville, while his father kept a store, he helped his mother with housework and studied. He entered Illinois College in 1841 but was obliged to leave in 1843, on account of ill health. Pioneer Methodist preachers frequented his father's house, among them the famous Peter Cartwright. From them, he heard tales of circuit riding in the backwoods, with its dangers from the weather, wild animals, and Indians, which strengthened his conviction, early reached, that it was his duty to become a preacher.
In 1843, Milburn went as an exhorter with Rev. Peter Akers, to cover a 500-mile circuit with a dozen charges. Each week they held services from Saturday noon until Sunday evening, and the remainder of the time traveled on horseback, sleeping at night upon shuck mattresses laid on cabin floors, and partaking of the food those they tarried with could supply. Milburn said that he never thereafter liked fried chicken, hog, hominy, or cornbread. On September 13, 1843, he was admitted to the Illinois Conference on trial and assigned to the Winchester circuit, with thirty charges extending over 300 miles, which he visited every four weeks. His yearly salary was $100 and presents of clothing. His own comment on his circuit life was: "The terms of tuition in Brush College and Swamp University are high, the course of study hard, the examinations frequent and severe, but the schooling is capital". In 1844, the trouble with his eye became worse and, though almost penniless, he went for treatment to St. Louis, where he lived for nine months in the home of a friendly lawyer. On September 17, 1845, he was ordained deacon and appointed an agent to raise money for a "Female Seminary" and for McKendree College. Traveling from Wheeling to Cincinnati by boat, he met a group of congressmen whom he reproved for drinking, card playing, and profanity. They raised a purse for him and shortly after secured his election as chaplain of Congress on the part of the House of Representatives (1845). He retained his position as church agent and on August 13, 1846, in Baltimore, made that city his headquarters. Poor health sent him South in 1848, and he became pastor of a church in Montgomery, Alabama, where he remained two years. A like term as pastor of St. Francis Street Church, Mobile, and two years as Mobile city missionary followed. At the Alabama Conference of 1852, he was under investigation for questionable conduct (he had attended a New Year's ball) and for heresy. The latter consisted in a sympathetic attitude toward the higher criticism, which he later deplored. The Conference was satisfied with his explanations and no action was taken. In 1853, at thirty, poor, totally blind, with four children to support, he broke down physically and nervously and returned North, settling in New York City. He supplied churches for longer or shorter periods, lectured widely throughout the country, and visited Canada and England. About 1862, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, but in 1878 was readmitted to the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church. He was again elected chaplain of Congress (1853), later of the House of Representatives (1885), and finally of the Senate (1893). In 1902, he resigned this office because of failing health. He died in Santa Barbara, California.
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On August 13, 1846, in Baltimore, Milburn was married Cornelia Wilmot.