William J. Milne (educator)

William James Milne (1843–1914) was an American educator, academic administrator, and author.

He was known for heading two teachers' colleges in New York State, and writing numerous mathematics textbooks.

Milne worked his own way through school and college and was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1868.

)[3] Milne was on the faculty of what is today the State University of New York at Brockport before his principalship at Geneseo.

[4] He held his Ph.D. by October 1874, when he was ordained an elder of the town's Central Presbyterian Church.