Reminiscences of early days in Milan notes that a pottery was started here for D. Pinkley and sons and was run for several years by H.C. Pinkley. It was on the lot on Dickson Street now owned by the heirs of Oliver Brown who died here several yr's ago.

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Reminscences of early days in Milan: In 1852, a cholera epidemic hit the city and 7 persons died in one week, including William Lloyd Fisher (whose wife later remarried to David Lloyd who lived and died on the farm now owned by Rachel Baker). Mrs. Garret Davis also died at the hotel, now Dibbern's store. Wm Whan was another victim. The first physician to locate in the village was D. Pinkley and soon afterward, in 1848, Dr. Thomas Martin came, who after married a daughter of Morgan Fergerson who built the Fergerson house on the corner of Dickson and 1st Streets. The doctor soon after his marriage, moved to Coal Valley where he died.

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