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3212 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSinent attorney of Albany. Mr. and Mrs. Tift have had three children:Maurice W., Jr., who died at the age of fifteen months in 1893; Asa F., born1896, a graduate of Albany High School and now connected with the AlbanyNational Bank; and William Wooten, born in 1902, and now attending theAlbany High School. They also have an adopted child, David MercerSherman, who was born in Blakeley, Georgia, in 1906, and who is now attendingthe graded schools of Albany.THOMAS H. MILNEE. Among the most reliable and successful practitionersat the bar of Albany, Thomas H. Milner is also one of the prominent andcapable business men of the city. lie is a man of settled purpose and firmconvictions, who is practical in his aims whether as a man or as an attorney,and who, therefore, has advanced steadily to a high and substantial professional reputation, having been effective also in the realization of those projectswhich are advanced by citizens of modern tendencies. During the more thanten years in which he has been engaged in practice at Albany, Colonel Milnerhas represented important interests in litigation which has attracted someattention and involved questions demanding the keenest legal acumen andskill, and his success in these has been of a nature to give him a reputationthat has extended beyond the immediate confines of his home community.Mr. Milner was born in Bartow County, Georgia, April 9, 1875, and is ason of Hon. Thomas "W. and Annie (Harris) Milner, natives of this state.Mr. Milner comes naturally by his legal skill and predilection, for his fatherwas one of the leading lawyers of Bartow County, a familiar figure in thecourts in connection with important cases, and finally was elevated to theSuperior bench, on which he served with dignity and ability for many years.Judge Milner in social life was a man of scholarly tastes and broad generalinformation, arising from his wide acquaintance with men and the bestliterature. A man of fine qualities, he was social, tolerant, generous andgenial, and his friends, both in and out of professional life, were legion. Hisdeath occurred in January, 1915, when he was sixty-eight years of age. JudgeMilner was a student at the Georgia Military Academy when the war 'betweenthe states came on, and during the latter part of the war was a member ofthe brave lads known as the Georgia Cadets, who, with boyish bravery,marched to the front to repel the invaders from the North. Mrs. Mil tier, whowas also born in Bartow County, still survives, at the age of sixty-three years,making her home at Albany. Of the six children in the family, Thomas 11. wasthe second in order of birth.Thomas H. Milner attended the public schools of Bartow County, and grewup in an atmosphere calculated to inspire in his youthful mind a desire; toenter the profession of law. His studies were further prosecuted at MmoryCollege, from which he was duly graduated, with a creditable record, andhe then entered the office of Judge Harris, under whose preceptorsliip liemastered the many difficulties and perplexities of the law. Admitted to (.liebar in 1896, he at once began practice at Catersville, Georgia, but after aboutten years there came to Albany, in 1905, and here has continued in an nclivegeneral practice. Mr. Milner is familiar with all branches of his profession,and does not make a specialty of any department, and his knowledge of thelaw and the earnest, concise, logical and forceful manner in which h i; "sit, accounts in large measure for the high and substantial nature or nisprofessional standing. He is a valued member of the Georgia State BarAssociation and of the Dougherty County Bar Association, and both in professional and social circles has many friends. In political matters a democrat,his profession has so absorbed the bulk of his time and his mental strength,that he has not had the inclination to enter politics. As a widelv-read andthoughtful man, however, he has always had first convictions on all questionsof public polity, and has endeavored by his influence to aid measures and men