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MILTON, George Fort, <\/strong>editor, publisher; born Macon, Ga., July 16, 1869; English and Irish descent; son of Harvey Oliver <\/strong>and Sarah Floyd (FORT) MILTON; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation, physician (assistant surgeon, C. S. A.); paternal grandparents, Wiley B.<\/strong> and Sarah (Elliot) MILTON;<\/strong> maternal grandparents, Dr. Tomlinson <\/strong>and Martha (Lowe) FORT<\/strong>; educated Chattanooga schools, Chattanooga University, University of the South; graduated from High school and University of the South; served as first lieutenant, 6th<\/sup> U. S. V. L., Spanish-American war; colonel and aide on staff of Gov. J. B. FRAZIER<\/strong>, 1902-1904; in early life was a bookkeeper in bank; became editor of Knoxville Sentinel 1895; purchased controlling interest in 1900; purchased controlling interest Chattanooga News 1909, and is editor of both papers; married twice, first Caroline M. McCALL<\/strong>, Feb. 8, 1893; second Abby CRAWFORD<\/strong>, Sept. 19, 1904; member of Cumberland, Country, Knoxville, Calumet, Chattanooga clubs; member Commercial organizations; Democrat; delegate to National Conventions, 1900-1904; member of Protestant Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Knoxville MILTON, George Fort, editor, publisher; born Macon, Ga., July 16, 1869; English and Irish descent; son of Harvey Oliver and Sarah Floyd (FORT) MILTON; father\u2019s occupation, physician (assistant surgeon, C. S. A.); paternal grandparents, Wiley B. and Sarah (Elliot) MILTON; maternal grandparents, Dr. Tomlinson and Martha (Lowe) FORT; educated Chattanooga schools, Chattanooga University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,82,393,228,4419],"tags":[933,251,8,2137,2003,2287],"class_list":{"0":"post-5207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-univ-of-the-south-sewanee","9":"category-university-of-chattanooga","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-crawford","12":"tag-elliott","13":"tag-fort","14":"tag-lowe","15":"tag-mccall","16":"tag-milton","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}