Biography of Milling, Robert Edward Winn, then Orleans Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller September 2000 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Robert Edward Milling has had a long and successful career as a Louisiana attorney, has been associated with some of the eminent men in the profession and in local affairs, and is still active in one of the leading law firms at New Orleans, with offices in the Whitney Central Bank Building. He was born at Winnfield, Louisiana, April 16, 1861, son of Thomas David and Mary Edna (Teddlie) Milling. His parents were natives of Georgia, and his father came to Louisiana in 1858. He brought some slaves with him, acquired a farm near Winnfield, and after the war engaged in merchandising in partnership with Mr. George W. Bolton, under the firm name of Milling & Bolton at Winnfield and Pineville, Louisiana. He died in 1879. Robert Edward Milling attended the Louisiana State University, graduated in 1882 from Cooper Institute at Daleville, Mississippi, and after studying law in private offices was admitted to the bar in 1885. He has been a practicing lawyer forty years. He began his practice at Winnfield, and in 1888 was elected district attorney, holding that office eight years. In 1896 he moved to Franklin, Louisiana, forming a partnership with J. Y. Sanders (afterwards governor of Louisiana), under the firm name of Sigur, Milling & Sanders. After two years Mr. Sigur retired, and Governor Murphy J. Foster, having retired from the office of Governor, entered the firm and the business was conducted under the firm name of Foster, Milling & Sanders. A short time thereafter they established an office in New Orleans and Emile Godchaux entered the firm, which then became Foster, Milling, Godchaux & Sanders. With the election of Mr. Sanders as governor and Governor Foster retiring, the firm is today Milling, Godchaux, Saal & Milling. In April, 1883, Mr. Milling married Miss Ida Roberts, a native of Choctaw County, Alabama, and educated at Cooper Institute in Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Milling had nine children. The oldest, Roberts Clay, was educated at Louisiana State University and Washington and Lee University, receiving a law diploma from the Louisiana State University, and is now associated in practice with his father's firm. Thomas DeWitt Milling graduated from West Point Military Academy in 1909, and holds the rank of major in the regular army, while during the World war he was a colonel and went to France in 1917, making a brilliant record. At the close of the war he had command of an air service section in the Argonne. He was awarded many medals and citations. The third child, Ida Milling, is the wife of F. F. Chapman, engaged in the lumber business at Morgan City, Louisiana. Wear Francis, a graduate in law and a member of his fathers law firm, gave up his profession to join the colors at the time of the World war, and died soon after the close of the war. The fifth child is Miss Alice Odelle Milling, wife of John Christian of New Iberia, Louisiana. Robert E. Milling, Jr., graduated in law from the Harvard Law School, having previously attended the Literary department of Tulane University, and graduated from Washington and Lee university. He was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law School publications, he is a member f his father's law firm. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 215-216, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.