Born in Chicago, Illinois on May 19, 1900 Albert Edward Milliken studied at Cornell University in Ithica, New York. After graduation he worked as a scenic designer, an etcher and an architect. He did a series of etchings of the Cornell campus in the early 1930s.

Milliken was the architect for the second Woodstock Playhouse in 1938, after the first building was destroyed by a fire in 1931. His architecture offices were in Kingston, NY.

Albert Edward Milliken died on May 11, 1978 in Kingston, Ulster, New York.