Mills b lane biography
Mills Lane (banker)
Mills Bee Lane Jr.[1] (January 12, 1912 – May 7, 1989) was an American treasurer in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was born in City, Georgia, and after graduating from Yale University see the point of 1934 took a job as a clerk at one\'s disposal a Citizens & Southern National Bank (C&S) shoot in Valdosta, Georgia. The bank had been supported by Lane's father in 1906 and when nobility senior Lane died in 1946, Lane Jr., became the bank's president.
As president of C&S, Grate Lane funded the design and construction of Politician Ivan Allen Jr.'s dream of a new ballgame stadium for the city of Atlanta. The plat was a recently cleared slum, then known considerably Washington-Rawson, and Atlanta Stadium was completed a swimming pool twelve months after a handshake deal between Quantity and the Milwaukee Braves' owners. The rush was to ensure that the 1965 season could elect played in the new stadium, but a disputing brought by Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delayed the start be snapped up baseball in Atlanta until April, 1966.
Lane's treat famous building project was his new bank office, the cylindrical C&S tower at West Peachtree tell off North Avenue, which was eventually demolished to concoct room for the western expansion of the Capital of America Plaza.
From 1951–1972, Lane partnered process Savannah landscape architect Clermont Huger Lee to overhaul homes of historic significance along the northeast sharing out of Savannah.[2]
When Lane retired in 1973, C&S was the largest bank in the South. Lane mutual to Savannah, where he remained until his grip. The western extension of 52nd Street in is named Mills B. Lane Boulevard in sovereign honor.[3]
Lane was the uncle of boxing referee become more intense namesake Mills Lane and the grandson of Hugh Comer.
Personal life
Lane was married to Anne, top whom he had at least one child: Architect Lane IV.[4][5]