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History of Jacksonville, (Duval County) FloridaFeatured Picture:  Windsor Hotel in Jacksonville FL ca 1905. 15% - 35% off all Products ยป The Ready Store Biographies:Biographical Sketch of Richard Moore Bishop Richard Moore Bishop, governor of Ohio, was born in Fleming county, Ky., Nov. 4, 1812. He received a meagre education and engaged as a clerk, 1829-'33; as a partner with his employer, 1833-'48, and as the head of a successful wholesale grocery house in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1848-'78. He was a member of the city council in 1857; its presiding officer in 1858, and mayor of Cincinnati elected on a citizens' ticket in 1859-'61. As mayor he received the Prince of Wales, enforced the Sunday ordinances, and presided over the Union war meeting. He was president of the National commercial convention, Baltimore, Md., 1871; a member of the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873, and was governor of Ohio, 1878-'80. He was an active member of the Disciples church and was president of the general Christian missionary couvention. He died at Jacksonville, Fla., March 2, 1893. Wilkinson Call - A Biography Wilkinson Call, senator, was born at Russellville, Logan county, Ky., Jan. 9, 1834; a nephew of Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida. He went to Florida at an early age, and became a lawyer in Jacksonville. During the civil war he served as adjutant-general in the Confederate army, and in 1865 he was elected U. S. senator from Florida, but owing to the subsequent passage of the reconstruction act he was not allowed to take his seat. In 1872 and 1876 he was presidential elector for the state at large, and in 1876 he was a member of the national Democratic executive committee, and a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis, Mo. In 1879 he was elected U. S. senator to succeed Simon B. Conover, and was re-elected in 1885 and in 189l, his term of service expiring March 3, 1897. |
Florida Facts: Duval County Facts: Seat: JacksonvilleEstablished: 1822 Formed from: Saint Johns
Additional Local History Notes: The 1854 Gazetteer of the United States by Thomas Baldwin shows: JACKSONVILLE, a post-village, capital of Duval county, Florida, on the left bank of St. John's river, 252 miles E. from Tallahassee. It contains a court house, church, several stores, and 1045 inhabitants. Jacksonville is situated 5 meters above sea level. |
