Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Milnes, Thomas 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Thomas Milnes, general farmer, resident on section 21, Clyde Township, was 
born on the same section, March 25, 1861. His parents were Joseph and Jennie 
(Mason) Milnes. The later was born in the North of Ireland. She was but six 
years of age when her parents emigrated from the Green Isle to the United 
States and settled in Lowell, Mass. The father was of English descent and 
their marriage took place in 1860, in Chicago. The senior Milnes was a farmer 
and had come, in 1842, to Clyde Township, where his father located a farm on 
the bank of Little Rock Creek. He was then about ten years old. The family was 
one of the first to make a permanent settlement in Whiteside County. Joseph 
Milnes and his wife located immediately after their marriage on the homestead 
estate, where they reared their family and conducted their affairs until their 
removal in 1882 to Morrison, where they still reside. The place is in the 
possession of the son, who is the subject of this biographical narration. Mr. 
Milnes was brought up on his grandfather's farm and has all his life been 
interested in its progressive improvements, interspersed by attendance at 
school. He obtained a more entensive education by going to school at Oshkosh, 
Wis., where he passed two years, and there entered upon a course of commercial 
study, which he completed at Fulton, in Whiteside County. After leaving school 
he returned to agricultural pursuits on the home farm. Two years later he 
formed a matrimonial alliance with Carrie E., daughter of Richard and Hannah 
E. (Knight) Beswick. Their marriage took place Dec. 28, 1882. Mrs. Milnes was 
born Aug. 24, 1861, on section 30, Clyde Township, and was brought up and 
educated in her native county. The family now includes two children born as 
follows: Earl B., Nov. 26, 1883, and Paul E., Feb. 26, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. 
Milnes settled after their marriage on the old home place and have diligently 
prosecuted the interests of general farming. Mr. Milnes is a Democrat and is 
present Township Treasurer.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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