Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Milton H. HILBURN, proprietor of Phoenix Foundry & Machine-Shops, Wilmington; born in 
Livingston Co., N. Y., Jan. 31, 1828, but removed, when about 9 years of age, to Columbia 
Co., Penn., where he resided until 1847, then removing to Illinois, and, after spending 
about one year in other parts of this county, located at Wilmington in the fall of the 
following year, when he engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements, making the 
manufacture of plows a specialty; in 1867, he removed to Ilion, N. Y., where he continued 
in the same business until his return to this city in 1877; was a member of the Board of 
Trustees in 1864; during his term of service, the charter of the town of Wilmington was 
amended and the city incorporated. Married, in 1853, to Miss Sarah TUTTLE, who was born 
in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; she died in 1855; their daughter, Sarah J., died in 1856; was 
again married, in 1858, to Adalade J. MARSH, who was born in Hartford, Conn.; three 
children, one living - Cora E.; Etta E. died in 1863; Milton M., in 1874. Mr. HILBURN 
is a member of the following Masonic bodies: Wilmington Lodge, No. 208, Wilmington Chapter, 
No. 142, and Joliet Commandery, No. 4.