Henry A. Milander

Henry A. Milander

• Henry A. Milander was born on 9 February 1899 in Nisquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
• Henry A. Milander registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, while living with his father at 140 West 14th Street in Northampton, and employed there by his father as a butcher.
• He married Ruth M. Harwood, daughter of Lyall Harwood and A. Estelle Dorwin, on 30 June 1920 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, by license issued the 23rd, with B. S. Ferrall officiating.. They divorced a few years later..
• Henry A. Milander died on 14 April 1974 at age 75 in Dade County, Florida.
• The following appeared on 2 January 1980 in The Miami News: Reflections on lives that shaped our decade . . . Henry Milander, 75. It was 1924 when the tough little Pennsylvania Dutchman stepped off the bus in a palmetto-scrub boondocks called Hialeah. Henry Milander opened a little butcher shop and 11 years later started carving a political niche for himself.
       For 15 consecutive two-year terms, he was Hialeah's mayor; a down-home mayor, an approachable mayor who knew how to cut red tape and get things done, an old-fashioned political boss who kept things under his thumb. But he probably never made a speech longer than three minutes.
       He died in 1974 of a heart attack, stricken on a Sunday evening while dismantling a wall to enlarge the living room of the house he had lived in since the Depression.

• Last Edited: 7 Sep 2015