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Duncan Chambers Milner (1841-1928) was a leading Presbyterian minister and reformer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1862, he left school to join the 98th Ohio Vol. Inf., rising eventually to the rank of First Lieutenant. He fought at Perryville (Oct. 8, 1862) and Chickamauga (Sept. 19-20, 1863). Wounded at Chickamauga, he left the army to serve with the U.S. Christian Commission. After the war, he graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and Union Theological Seminary. In 1868, he went to Missouri as a missionary. From 1875 through 1892, he served in Kansas, where he was active in the temperance movement which culminated in the state's prohibition law.
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Duncan Chmbers Milner Papers