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Prominent banker, philanthropist dies at 91

By The Associated Press
Posted 1:45AM on Thursday 7th April 2005 ( 20 years ago )
<p>Prominent banker and philanthropist High C. Lane, who retired as board chairman of Citizens & Southern Corp., died Tuesday. He was 91.</p><p>Lane worked to improve race relations in the civil rights era, helped start the Trident United Way and worked to preserve the ACE Basin.</p><p>Lane, a third-generation banker, was born March 5, 1914, in Savannah, Ga. By age 30, he was president of the C&S Bank of South Carolina.</p><p>At the time, the bank had deposits of $64 million and offices in three cities. When he retired three decades later, the bank had 64 offices and deposits of more than $468 million.</p><p>Lane worked to raise money for the Committee on Better Racial Assurance to improve race relations in Charleston. He also is credited with playing a key role in resolving a 113-day strike of black hospital workers at the then-Medical College of South Carolina in 1969.</p><p>He spearheaded efforts to preserve the watershed drained by the Ashepoo, Combahee and Edisto rivers between Charleston and Beaufort.</p><p>"He was a man ahead of his time," said Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. "It was very fortunate for Charleston to have a visionary and energetic and generous man like Hugh Lane."</p><p>Lane is survived by his wife, Beverly Glover Lane; four children, Hugh C. Lane Jr., Kathleen L. Schenck and Charles G. Lane, all of Charleston, and Beverly L. Jost of Washington, D.C.; and 12 grandchildren.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x286654c)</p>

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