William Dickerson Milliken, born in Paducah, Ky., Nov. 1, 1848, married Margaret Crockett Young and had children W. D., Jr.; Samuel Ramsey, M.D.; Thomas Gillespie; Martin Horace; Maggie Bell (Mrs. Edens); Charles Young; Elizabeth Angelina; and John Barnes. After going into mercantile business in Lewisville in 1877, Milliken built this house in 1878. Its framing is native oak, and its siding was freighted from the port city of Jefferson in East Texas.