Alexander Milne

Alexander Milne

Alexander Milne (1742 - 1838) was a Scottish-American entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Milne was born in Fochabers, Moray, Scotland. Known as Sandy to his friends, he got into trouble with the local Duke for whom he worked as a footman by refusing to cut his long ginger hair, and was deported to America in 1790. Sandy set up a business in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flourished and grew. When he died in 1838 he was a very rich man, and left instructions for several institutions to be built, including Milne's Free School in his native town of Fochabers (better known as Milne's Institution).

The first issue of the "Louisiana Gazette", published in 1804, lists slaves for sale by an Alexander Milne.

Milne developed a resort town on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, since absorbed into the city of New Orleans, which is known as the Milneburg neighborhood in his memory.


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