The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

As the spring days lengthen into sum mer the chief incidents on the social programme are weddings and commence ment exercises in the various schools and colleges. There will be a number of gay functions next week at the Margaret AL len school, and among the girls who are graduates this season in their own homes. The seminary has begun a series of at tractive social affairs that will continue during the next few days. A number of particularly interesting weddings have been forecasted. The most important one of the coming week is the marriage of Miss Martha Miner and Dr. Samuel Ra- vaud Benedict of Athens, Ga, at the Church of the Advent
 This wedding is one of particular in- terest in Alabama for many reasons. Chiefly so because of the prominence of the brides family in this section. The Miners have been identified with the growth of Birmingham since it's very in fancy. Mai Willis J. Milner, the bride s grandfather, came to Birmingham In 1869. before it was Birmingham, indeed and since it was just a little spot on the red mapped lands" has been interested in almost every progressive movement for ward that it has made Financially con- cerned in many lines of progress. It is interesting to know that he was one of the subscribers to the fund for the first manufacture of pig iron. Just fancy pig iron produced in Birmingham by popular subscription! His son, MT. Henry Key Milner, the father of the charming girl who is to become bride Tuesday evening" has also had part in the industrial de- velopment of the district. He is mining engineer by profession, his collegiate ed- ucation at the University of Georgia and later at the Columbia School of Mines, having fitted him admirably for many en- gineering feats, one of which was the di-
 recting of the route of the local water
 works company to the Cahaba river. Mir, Milner made his home constantly in this city until few years ago. when he went 10 his country home at Hawthorn to spend the sgreater part of his time He was sec retary and treasurer of the Miner kettig company for 20 years
 Miss Miner is one of the most at tractive girls in society. She is very talented and has received splendid en- couragement for the development, es- pecially of her artistic talent After her graduation at the Margaret Allen school she entered upon a course in art at Sophie Newcomb college, where she finished a short time ago In de- signing. ad creative work of every sort she is especially gifted and her paint 1ngs have been much admired. The fur niture and interior decoration of the department of domestic science, which was introduced at Sophie Newcomb while Miss Miner was student at that Institution, is in a way monumental to studentship. A competitive prize was offered for furniture design for the department and in company with post graduates and undergraduates she tried for it and won. going to the factory to superintend the making of the fur niture Her especial fad has been jew elry making. that most modern of ac- complishments. and she is a capital worker in stones and metals, producing the lovelest of trinkets from her own designs. This is the clever girl who Is to become the bride of pr. Benedict. It is unfortunate for society that she Is to leave the state, but she goes to her mothers home Athens, where she already has many attachments. Dr. Benedict is a native Georgian and a member of family whose men are chiefly clergymen and physicians and surgeons. He himself is surgeon. An uncle is the Rt Rev. Claud Will Hams, bishop of Michigan who is to be among the guests at the wedding Tuesday evening. Another uncle is Dr. NC. $. Benedict, dean of Sewanee, who Is to assist in the performance of the marriage ceremony. His father is pr. Benedict of Athens. The bridegroom elect is a graduate of the University Of Georgia; following with a scientific course at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical college. and then was grad uated in medicine at Richmond. Va. Afterward he took a postgraduate course at Belleview hospital, New York, and ost-graduate course at St. Vim cents hospital, New York, where he became house surgeon.
 pr. Benedict is associated with his father, Dr. $. C. Benedict, one of the most prominent physicians in Georgia -president of the Georgia Medical so-