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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           Page 13
                   
                   GEORGE M. MILNE.  One of a race of
               marine engineers and with the examples of
               his father, his father's brothers and his
               grandfather before him, it was more than
               natural that George Malcom Milne should
               early aspire to holding the throttle on a big
               lake carrier.  His grandfather, Alexander
               Milne, who was born in Scotland in 1809,
               came to America in the thirties to become
               engineer-in-chief of the Royal Mail line,
               and his father, George B. Milne, has been
               a marine engineer for forty years, being
               now chief engineer of the Devereux.
                   George M. Milne was born in 1871 in
               Rigaud, Province of Quebec, near the site
               of the Rigaud Cement Works, which were
               and are still the property of his father.  He
               was educated in the public schools of Detroit
               and Oswego, in which cities his parents
               lived while he was a youth.  He spent some
               time in the locomotive works of the D.L. & W.
               railroad, in Oswego, and in the year 1890
               he began sailing on the Great Lakes. During
               his first season he was oiler on the propeller
               Onoko.  Then he served in the same capacity
               on the Philip Minch, later assuming charge
               of the electric plant of the "Clifton House"
               in Chicago.  He did not hold his position
               long as he was desirous of returning to 
               the lakes, and the next year he became
               second engineer of the propeller Elfin-
               Mere.  From this vessel he went to the
               Arundel, also as second engineer, and 
               thence to the propeller Garland, as
               chief.  The following year, 1895, he
               was chief engineer of the propeller 
               Germania, during 1896, he was chief
               engineer of the Devereux, under his
               father, and in 1898 again chief engineer
               of the steamer Garland for the Detroit,
               Belle Isle & Windsor Ferry Company.
               
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