Career
Street, New York City, and trustee of the baptist Rochester Theological Seminary (University of Rochester). The city of Milbank, South Dakota, which is the seat of Grant County, was founded in 1880 and named in his honor. Among other interests, Milbank was in 1870 an original subscriber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and owned a box at the Metropolitan Opera.
Milbank was born April 18, 1818, at 51/2 Bancker Street, New York City, the eleventh child of Samuel Milbank (1775–1853) and Elizabeth Wall Milbank.
Milbank was interred in the Milbank Mausoleum, Putnam Cemetery, Greenwich, Connecticut.