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3172 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS>come to the young lawyer. He is a member of the Union Loan and InsuranceAgency, which he represents as attorney, and has a large general practice,seeming to be equally versed in all branches of his calling. He is serving asclerk of the board of county commissioners, and is a member of the OconeeCircuit Bar Association. Among his fellow-practitioners his standing is high.Mr. Milner is also well and favorably known in fraternal circles, being worshipful master of the Blue Lodge and high priest of the Royal Arch Chapter,in the Masonic fraternity; and a member of the Knights of the Maccabees andthe Woodmen of the World. A democrat in his political views, he has takensome part in the success of his party in this section, and in 1914 was a delegateto the state convention.Mr. Milner was married in June, 1909, at Eastman, to Miss Hattie Harrell,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Harrell, of Eastman, and they have two children; Jefferson Herrman, born in 1910; and Eugene McCormack, born in1912.MAX L. McRAE. He whose name introduces this article is worthily upholding the prestige of a family name that has been conspicuously and influentiallylinked with the annals of Georgia history, and it is specially interesting tofind him a resident of the City of McRae, which was named in honor of hispaternal grandfather and which is the thriving and progressive metropolis andjudicial center of Telfair County. Judge McRae achieved unequivocal successin the legal profession and stands as one of its representative members inSouthern Georgia, besides which he served with signal ability on the bench ofthe City Court of McRae and has represented his native county in theGeorgia Legislature. His influence has further been extended into the developing of large and important business enterprises, and he stands to-day asone of the prominent and resourceful men of affairs in Telfair County, wherehe has practically retired from the active work of his profession.Judge McRae was born in Telfair County on the 4th of October, 1875, andis a son of Maj. Daniel F. and Marian (McRae) McRae, both likewise nativesof Georgia. Major McRae was born in Telfair County and his father, Alexander B. McRae, who immigrated from Scotland to America, first settled inNorth Carolina, whence he came in an early day to Georgia and became apioneer of Telfair County, where he figured as the founder of the present Cityof McRae, which, as before stated, was named in his honor. Alexander B.McRae became one of the extensive and successful planters of Telfair Countyand was a citizen of marked prominence and influence in this section of thestate, his character and achievement showing him to be possessed of the sterlingattributes that indicate the true son of Scotland. He continued his residencein Telfair County until his death and his name merits high place and enduringhonor on the roll of its pioneers and upbuilders.Maj. Daniel F. McRae was reared and educated in Georgia and as a citizenand business man effectively carried forward the high honors of the familyname. He became a prominent merchant at Lumber City, Telfair County,and also conducted large and substantial operations in the domain of agricultural industry. Broad-minded, liberal and public-spirited, he had muchto do with the formulating and directing of popular sentiment and actionin his native county, and he served with distinction in the Georgia Senate,having been while in the Legislature a contemporary and associate of Hon.Joseph Brown, later governor of the state, and other representative men ofGeorgia. When the Civil war was precipitated he manifested his inflexibleloyalty to the cause of the Confederate states, by enlisting in the Fifty-sixthGeorgia Regiment of Infantry, in which he was advanced to the office ofmajor and with which, as a gallant and dashing leader, he participated inmany important engagements marking the progress of the great conflictbetween the states of the North and the South. He was slightly wounded