MILBURN, E. C., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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E. C. MILBURN, WHITEVILLE.--E. C. Milburn, planter and Police Juror, Ward 5,
is a native of St. Landry parish, born in the year 1836.  He is the son of
Henry B. and Minerva A. (Ferguson) Milburn, both of whom were born in
Mississippi, but removed to Louisiana with their parents when children.  Henry
B. Milburn was principally reared and educated in Louisiana.  He married here
when a young man and devoted himself to planting on Bayou Boeuf, Avoyelles
parish, Louisiana.  He was accidentally killed by his gin in 1852, at the age
about fifty-three years.  E. C. Milburn's grandfather, Henry Milburn, was a
native of England, but removed to the United States when a young man.  He had
only one son, our subject's father. His maternal grandfather, James Ferguson,
was a native of South Carolina.  He married when young Miss Ellizabeth Curry,
of Georgia, moving to Louisiana in 1812, where he engaged in planting.  He
participated in the war of 1812, but was not engaged in the battle of New
Orleans.  He died at the age of ninety-five, outliving all of his children
except the mother of the subject of this sketch, who is now living and is
eighty-two years old.

E. C. Milburn began life as a merchant at Holmesville, Louisiana, marrying,
shortly after beginning business, Miss Anna M. Leigh, daughter of Dr. John F.
Leigh, of Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1862 Mr. Milburn enlisted in the First Battalion of State troops, in which
he served, operating in Louisiana, one year, when he joined the Eighth
Battalion of the Heavy Artillery; and a few months before the close of the war
he was detailed for the purpose of raising provisions for the Confederate
States' use.  After the war he devoted himself to the operation of his
plantation at this place, where he had removed in 1800.  He has an excellent
plantation, upon which he raises cotton and corn.  Mr. Milburn also raises a
fine grade of stock on his plantation.  In the year 1888 he was appointed a
member of the Police Jury from the Fifth Ward, and has served in this capacity
with credit to himself and satisfaction to the people.  It is not Mr.
Milburn's desire to identify himself with political affairs, and he has
refused, on different occasions, to accept nominations to the Legislature.  He
is the father of four children, three sons and one daughter.  His oldest son,
Dr. H. C. Milburn, is a practising physician of Whiteville, Louisiana.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
61-62.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.