Bill Milligan attended the Georgia Military Academy, the Citadel, and then enlisted in the U. S. Air Force during which time he was stationed in Bermuda, the Azores, Turkey, and then finally in French Morocco. Afterwards he returned to Orlando, and then enrolled at the University of Florida but was called home to work in the family owned business – the Orange Court Hotel, located on Orange Avenue. Milligan was active in many Orlando civic associations, including the South Orlando Kiwanis Club, Historical Society of Central Florida, and Orlando Remembered. He died in 2017.
Listen to an oral history with Bill Milligan and his wife, Joan, from College Park Oral History Night in 2012.