HERALDRY

Adam S. Eterovich

MILINOVIC-MILINOVICH-MILIN

Milinovich is found in all parts of Croatia with great numbers concentrated in the Gospic Districts. Milin, Milinich and Milinovich all have the same basic root.

Maria Teresa granted Nessa Milinovich a coat of arms on March 1, 1751, in Vienna, probably for service on the military frontier in Lika.

Diodato Milinovich was a private in Cognevich's Company, Louisiana Militia Volunteers, Confederate Army of 1864. Diodato or Chris later turns up as a merchant in Virginia City, Nevada in 1869. Adam Milinovich had a saloon on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans in 1873. Marco, Mateo and Peter Milinovich had a coffee saloon at Commercial and Leidesdorf Streets in San Francisco in 1859. Marko was the treasurer of the Slavonic Illyric Beneficial Society during 1859-60.

William and Michael Milinovich were mining gold at Sutter Creek, California in the 1870's. Sutter Creek had the first Croatian Hall in America during the 1870's.

Marco Milinovich owned the San Francisco Hotel and saloon in Virginia City, Nevada in 1862. He was shot and killed in a gunfight on July 4, 1863 by an Irishman in his saloon. The Croatian Slavonic Society of San Francisco buried him in the Slavonic Terra Croatian Cemetery that same year.

Courtesy of the Croatian Genealogical and Heraldic Society, 2527 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos, California, 94070. Phone: 650-592-1190; E-Mail croatians@aol.com; Web www.croatians.com. Adam S. Eterovich.