The age-herald., 1898-08-19
FORMER SENATOR
 MILNER IS DEAD Died at His New Castle Home From
 Paralysis. HE WAS 72 YEARS OF AGE Remains Mill Arrive This Morning. Funeral at Presbyterian Church. PROMINENT FACTOR OF DISTRICT Had Devoted His Entire Life to It's Up- building and Development-Start-
 ed His Career as a Civil
 Engineer.
PROMINENT FACTOR OF DISTRICT

a stroke of paralysis.
 Last winter during the cold weather he | had his first stroke, but recovered from it. | About a week ago he had a second attack,
 which came near proving fatal, but he ap- 1 parently recovered, and on Wednesday aft
 ernoon was riding around in his buggy with
 usual good health.
 At o'clock yesterday morning his third
 and last attack came. All of his family
 living in and near New Castle were hastily
 summoned and everything possible was ! done for him, but the end came at 10
 o'clock.
 Telegrams announcing his death were re-
 ceived in this city all during the morning, | and the news cast a. gloom over the whole l community.
 Funeral This Morning The funeral services will be held this
 morning at 10 o'clock at the First Pres byterian church, and the interment will take place at Oak Hill cemetery The remains will be brought down from
 New Castle this morning at S:55 o'clock,
 arriving at the depot at that hour. The pail bearers are as follows and they are requested to meet at the depot promptly at the above named hour.
 Colonel R. H. Pearson M. A. Porter, B. r. Roden, Dr. R. M. Cunningham, G. B.
 Mccormick, General Rufus N Rhodes, Judge Samuel E. Greene, Captain w. c. Ward. H. H. Brown, A w. Smith, Colonel J. F. Jackson, J. K. Mcdonald, James J. Garrett, John w. Johnston. Fred Sloss, Dr. George M. Morrow, General E. w. Fucker, N. E. Barker, R. w. Cobb and John H. Bankhead.
 In the absence of Rev. A. B. Curry, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church, Dr. J. H. Nall, of New Orleans, who is now visiting in the city, will officiate. Dr. Nall was at one time pastor of the Presbyterian church at Greenville, where the deceas formerly lived, and the two were close friends.
 Was a Native of Georgia John T. Milner was a native of Georgia,
 where he was born in Pike county Sep
 tember 29, 1926. His father Willis J. Mill
 ner. was Georgian and his mother, Eliza 1 beth Turner, was from North Carolina. He received the simple education that it
 was customary to give boys living on a farm, and his school duties were supple
 mented by work in his fathers fields In 1886 his family removed to Lumpkin
 county Georgia, where his father engaged
 in gold mining. There the young boy work
 ed for seven years at a primitive system
 of gold mining.
 | In 1S43 he entered the freshman class
 of the University of Georgia, where he led
 his class for three years. Bad health | forced him to retire from college before
 he was graduated.
 Soon after leaving college he formed an
 intimate acquaintance with the late Geo. | H. Hazlehurst, an engineer of wide repu- | tation, who was then in charge of con- | structing the Macon and Western railroad.
 MT. Milner began at the beginning as a
 roadman and speedily worked his way up
 in the engineering profession. In two | years he was the principal assistant engin- | eer to MT. Hazlehurst, and both of them soon rose to the top in their profession. l Among the "Forty-Niners" | When the gold fever of 1849 overspread | the country MT Milner was among the 1 first to set out for the fabulous fields of l California. He took the overland route in l an OK wagon His early training in the | gold mines of Georgia and later his experi- | ence as an engineer proved of inestimable | value to him. He was appointed city sur veyor of San Jose, at that time the capital of California. He held this position for year or two and returned to Georgia in 1852
 Soon afterwards he moved to Alabama. where he was engaged in the construction of the Montgomery and West Point rail- road. Besides this, he worked cn many other roads in that part of the state. Road Through Mineral District In 1858 Governor Moore, under authority given him by the legislature commission ed MT. Milner to lay out and survey a road through the mineral district of the state, running from the Tennessee river on the north to some one of the navigable rivers | of Alabama on the south. This he did, and the South and North Alabama Railroad company, which is now
 that part of the Louisville and Nashville
 railroad between Decatur and Montgom- cry, is the result of his efforts. In November ts5e. he wss elected chief | engineer of this road, which position he held until the road was completed and con- l sohdated with the Louisville and Nashville ! system, October 1, 1872
 Developed Lumber Regions He has not been actively engaged in rail- road building since that time In the early | '70's he lent his energies toward the devel- opment of the numbering region near Green vile, Ala, and the splendid mills at Boiling are the results of his labors. He was one of the first men in the state to recognize in the Birmingham district the finest place in the world for the location of an industrial city.
 By an agreement he made with the, Ala bama and Chattanooga and the South and North railroads. he bought up for the pur- pose of founding a city about 1000 acres of land in the Village Creek valley, a mile