Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Milne, William 1899
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The Portland Observer, Wednesday, March 15, 1899


William Milne (known to many of our readers as “Bill” Milne) died in Ronald 
township last week, aged about 71 years.  

Along in the early history of Portland Mr. Milne was a leading business man of 
the village and for several years owned and operated the saw mill now owned by 
C. J. Warren and operated in connection with the Portland Mfg. Co.  At that 
time there was a large amount of lumber sawed for the large number of 
buildings which were being erected in both  the village and country and the 
mill did a big business and Milne became well known in this section of the 
country.

Afterward he engaged in the grocery business in the store now occupied by John 
Bauer.  He did a good business at first but he soon went wrong; and after 
getting a start on the toboggan there were plenty of people and many ways to 
help him down the slide and it wasn’t long before his business was gone.  He 
went away from Michigan and what little money he had was soon gone and he 
worked at what he could get until about six years ago, when he returned to the 
county where he had lived to long.

William Milne was one of the very first residents of what is now the township 
of Portland, he having come here with his mother from England in 1834, the 
father having come here the year previous, the family settling on Grand river 
below where the village now is; and but for mistakes which wrecked his own 
prospects and ostracized from him family and relatives he might have continued 
to be a good citizen, alive and enjoying the confidence of his fellow men.

The remains were brought to Portland for burial in Portland cemetery on 
Wednesday last.


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