John F. Milhan was born January 9,1875 in Dundee, Michigan as the second child of Fred and Henrietta (Grey) Milhan.

On November 29, 1900, he married Helen A. Stoddard in Maybee, Michigan. They had one son.

  1. Lester John Milhan

John died on July 3, 1961 in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 86. Helen passed away there in 1963 at the age of 88.

 
On January 10, 1921, a fire in the Commerce Department building, Washington, DC, resulted in the destruction of most of the 1890 census.
Fred (50) and Henrietta (47) were living on their farm on South Custer Road with children John (25)  Wilhelmina "Minnie" (24), Anna (21), Fred Jr. (18), Helena (17), William (15), Henry (10). Other relatives on the same page included John Heiden and Bertha Burgard.