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Milton P. Creel
Dr. Milton P. Creel, one of the leading and hard-working physicians of Muhlenberg County, was born October 8, 1851, near Atlanta, Ga. He is the oldest of nine children born to Newton and Treacy J. (Balinger) Creel, natives of Fayette and Troup Counties, Ga., respectively, of French and English origin.
Newton Creel was the son of John Creel. The latter was born in 1788, and married Mary Belcher. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, was a farmer and son of Thomas Creel, who married a Miss Stamps. They were natives of Virginia and moved in an early day to Kentucky. Newton Creel served in the late war; was in Company D, Twentieth Alabama Regiment, and participated in the battles of New Hope Church, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. He received a wound in the hip from which he died.
Dr. Creel was reared on a farm and received a limited education. He did not attend school after nine years of age on account of the war. At sixteen he worked in the railway shops at Selma, Ala., for three years; then in a baker shop two years; then in the drug business for about three or four years at Warrior, Ala.; then engaged in peddling for five years in Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. In 1880 he attended lectures at Louisville Medical College, and graduated in the spring of 1882-83. He located in Central City, where he has since been successfully engaged. In 1877 he took charge of an engine for Central Coal & Iron Company for one year.
He was married December 21, 1875, to Martha C. Prince, of Calhoun County, Ala., a daughter of John Henry and Elizabeth (Gilleland) Prince, natives of North Carolina, and of Irish descent. John H. Prince died of measles at Okalona, Miss., while in the Confederate service. He had a brother in the Federal army. He was the son of William Prince, who was born in Ireland, and who married Hannah Barton, of Hall County, Ga. He was in the Indian war with Gen. Jackson.
Dr. Creel had born to him three children: Charles H., Daisy J. and William B. The Doctor is a member of the F.&A.M. and K. of P.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 901.
Updated June 8, 2018