Background
Bonham, Milledge Lipscomb was born on October 16, 1854 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. Son of Milledge Luke and Ann Patience (Griffin) Bonham.
Bonham, Milledge Lipscomb was born on October 16, 1854 in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. Son of Milledge Luke and Ann Patience (Griffin) Bonham.
Student Sachtleben’s Academy, Columbia, South Carolina., 1863-1864, Edgefield Academy, 1866-1872, Carolina Military Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1875-1876. Doctor of Laws from University of South Carolina, 1935.
After studying the law under the tutelage of Colonel Robert Aldrich, he was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1877. After Daisy died, Bonham remarried to Doctor Lillian L. Carter on March 2, 1925.
Bonham began his career as a newspaper editors
He first helped found the Ninety Six Guardian and then moved to Newberry, South Carolina where he was the editor of the Newberry News. Only afterwards did he relocate to Abbeville, South Carolina, where he started practicing law.
Bonham was made a state trial court judge on February 1, 1924. An associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on February 17, 1931.
And chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on January 10, 1940.
Chief Justice Bonham died on June 23, 1943, in Anderson, South Carolina, and is buried at the Silver Brook Cemetery there.
He was a hereditary member of the Aztec Club of 1847.
Married Daisy Aldrich, October 24, 1878. Married second, Lillian L. Carter, March 2, 1925. Children: Milledge Louis, Proctor Aldrich, Martha Annual