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Education & career [ edit ]
Milnor attended public grammar school in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, but initially did not graduate. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1794 and commenced practice in Norristown, Pennsylvania . He moved to Philadelphia in 1797 and continued the practice of his profession. He was a member of the Philadelphia Common Council in 1800, a member of the Select Council from 1805 to 1810 and served as president in 1808 and 1809. On July 29, 1819, the University of Pennsylvania conferred on Milnor the degree of Doctor of Divinity .[1] Bishop William White while in Washington, D.C. [2]
In October 1810, Milnor, a Federalist , was elected to represent the First Congressional District of Pennsylvania, in the Twelfth Congress . After his time in Congress, he studied theology and was ordained as a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 1814 he was appointed assistant minister of St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia and in 1816, he was elected rector of St. George's Chapel in New York City , a capacity he served in until his death in New York City in 1845.[3] [4] Mary Simpson , an African-American grocer who lived on John Street. Milnor was interred in Greenwood Cemetery , Brooklyn, New York .
Affiliations [ edit ]
In 1798, Milnor had been an officer of Pennsylvania Society , which at the time, was waging a movement to abolish slavery.[5]
In 1829. he began his tenure as President of the New York Institution for the Deaf .[6]
James Milnor was married, on 28 February 1799, to Eleanor Pawling, daughter of Henry Pawling and Rebecca Bull.[7] William Milnor , also a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
References [ edit ]
General references
The Political Graveyard
Documents by and about James Milnor from Project Canterbury
Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, six volumes (Milnor is in vol. 4), edited by James Grant Wilson & John Fiske , New York: D. Appleton & Company , 1888–1889 OCLC 420563
Biographical Directory of the American Congress , 1774–1971, The Continental Congress (September 5, 1774 to October 21, 1788), and the Congress of the United States (from the first through the ninety- first Congress March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1971, inclusive),U.S. Government Printing Office (1971) OCLC 2779857
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress , 1774-1989. The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774 to October 21, 1788 and the Congress of the United States from the first through the one hundredth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1989, inclusive. Bicentennial Edition,U.S. Government Printing Office (1989) OCLC 18497652
United States Congress. "James Milnor (id: M000785)" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography ,James T. White & Co. (1898)
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, 10 volumes, edited by Rossiter Johnson , Boston: The Biographical Society (1904) OCLC 441092
Who Was Who in America , A Component Volume of Who's Who in American History, Historical Volume, 1607–1896,Marquis Who's Who (1967) OCLC 22665911
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, three volumes, by Samuel Austin Allibone , Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. (1858–1871) OCLC 325569806
Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States, During its First Century; From Original and Official Sources, by Charles Lanman (1819–1895), Washington, D.C.: James Anglim (1876) OCLC 437825019
Dictionary of American Biography, by Francis S. Drake. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. (1872) OCLC 891866
Inline citations
^ University of Pennsylvania, Franklin Gazette (historic Philadelphia newspaper), Vol III, Issue 452, pg. 2, August 9, 1989
^ A memoir of the life of James Milnor, D.D. : late Rector of St. George's Church, New York ,American Tract Society (1848) OCLC 3859645
^ Obituary: Died (Rev. James Milnor, D.D. ), New-York Spectator (historical newspaper, not connected with Columbia University's paper by the same name), Vol. XLVIII (48 ), April 12, 1845, pg. 4 OCLC 192107445
^ Obituary: Rev. James Milnor , Schenectady NY Cabinet (historic newspaper), April 14, 1845, col. 4 OCLC 9954193
^ Slavery: Society of Friends, Meeting House , Universal Gazette (historical Philadelphia newspaper), Vol. I, Issue IX, pg 3, January 11, 1798
^ Assembly, New York (State) Legislature (1844). Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
^ Leach, Josiah Granville (March 1918). "Some Account of the Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania". Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . VII (1 ): 21–22.
Biographical note
Many biographical sources wrongly state that Milnor died in 1844, an error that has been widely replicated. With the advent of digitization of historical newspapers, we now know that he died on the same date, but in 1845.
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