Death
| Date | November 5, 1903 |
| Place | Waterville, New York, USA |
Narrative
From American Education, Volume 7 No. 4, December 1903, page 230.
DR. JAMES M. MILNE, of New York City, formerly Oneonta and Cortland Normal schools, died suddenly at the close of his response to a toast at a Masonic banquet at Waterville, N. Y., on November 5th, last. The news of his sudden taking off was a great shock to every one at all interested in New York state school affairs and was felt as a great personal loss by those who were delighted to be numbered among his friends. A sketch of Dr. "Jim" Milne, as he was commonly known, his life and work will appear in a subsequent issue. It must suffice for the present to say that Dr. Milne was an accomplished scholar, the beau ideal of a public speaker and that he gave the word "friend" a newer and richer meaning to those to whom he gave his friendship and his largesse in this respect was most bountiful.
It was most fitting that he died at the close of one his finest displays of that gift with which he had been so grandly endowed and while encouraging and edifying an organization which stands the world over for charity and fraternity.
