Joseph Davis Milne

1855 - 1926  (70 years)

• Name	Joseph Davis Milne
  Birth	01 Oct 1855	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	08 Jun 1926	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Burial	Oak Grove, Fall River, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I342223160120	Tripp Family Genealogical Website | Joseph Tripp 2

  
  

  Father	John Cruickshank Milne
  Mother	Abby Ann Gifford,   b. 27 Nov 1830, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA d. 21 Jul 1916, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	28 Jun 1849	Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F48029	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Georgia A. ( Hazzard ) Wright
  Marriage	19 Nov 1885
  Children	1. Margaret Milne,   b. Abt 1888   d. 11 Jul 1890, South Kingstown, Rhode Island (Age 2 years)   2. Janet Milne,   b. 20 Aug 1888   3. John C. Milne
  Family ID	F48108	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  nJoseph Davis Milne is my 7th Cousin two times removed. He was educated at Fall River High School ( 1873 ) and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Brown University ( 1877 ), a brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was editor and publisher of the Fall River Evening News. He began at the paper as a schoolboy, delivering papers after school. After graduating from Brown, he worked as a reporter, then City Editor, then managing Editor. His father left him a 1/2 half interest in the paper. He continued the newpaper's policy of refusing the advertisement of liquors. He lived at 444 June Street, and had a summer home at Warren's Point, Rhode Island. He was a man of high ideal and standards. "Nothing, except it be absolute misstatement of fact, would arouse him to greater impatience than the misuse of the English language or faulty rhetorical construction." He was Republican, born and bred, but he gave fair play to all opponents. And he had a sense of humor. "One test of a man's quality is that he 'wears well' with those surrounding him in the daily routine of office work. Mr. Milne never failed to meet this test with success." Calvin Coolidge visited his office when running for Lt.Governor and they formed a lasting friendship. Hew wa a Director of the Citizens Savings Bank from 1901 until his death, and served as its president from 1925. He was a Director of the Osborn Mills, the Fall River Historical Society, the Fall River Yacht Club, and the Quequechan Club. He was a Mason He died very suddenly, of cancer. This information comes from Richard Greene Howland Knight, which is much appreciated by all who will read of this in the future. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......