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WOMEN HEADING GRAND JURIES To the Editor of the Journal. sz—On page 190 of the June issue of your invaluable publication I read that Mrs. Laura White, wife of Judge John J. White, is the first woman ever selected to … Continue reading
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That portion of St. Andrews taking in Buena Vista Point, was entered by Richard H. Long, and patented to him as Lot 4, fractional section 1, Township 4 south, Range 15 west, on Sept. 1st, 1846. This tract was sold … Continue reading
SALEM COUNTY. County Seat—Salem, Population 1920, 36,572. Common Pleas (County) Judge Hon. Henry Burt Ware, ad interim … Continue reading
Senatorial Candidate Political Party Popular Vote J. Allen Frear, Jr. Democratic 71,888 50.85% Clayton Douglas Buck Republican 68,246 48.28% Hamilton D. Ware Progressive 681 0.48% Thomas J. Sard Prohibition 467 0.33% Walter B. Pollard Socialist 80 0.06% Source: 1948 … Continue reading
From the nineteenth election district—Eldridge L. Ware. It is ordered that the persons above named do meet inconventiou at Tallahassee, Florida, at the capitol, on Monday the twentieth (20) day of January, 1868, and proceed to frame a constitution and … Continue reading
Under military authority the State was divided into nineteen election districts, which were so arranged as to have the counties where the white population predominated attached to the counties having large colored majorities. There was but one polling place in … Continue reading
Washington, D. C, November l4, 1877. To the Senate of the United States: I nominate Joseph B. Browne to be postmaster at Key West, in the county of Monroe and State of Florida, in the place of Eldridge L, Ware, … Continue reading
It is an interesting circumstance that the part of the custom house which was built in 1876 was purchased by Colonel Frank N. Wicker, who had, for eleven years, occupied it as collector of customs. He moved it to a … Continue reading
In 1880 General U. S. Grant, accompanied by General Phil H. Sheridan, paid Key West a visit, on his return from his tour around the world. He came on the steamship Admiral from New Orleans bound for Havana. It was … Continue reading
Among the professional, official and business men, in addition to those mentioned, were a number of distinguished and notable characters. Mr. Eldridge L. Ware from the north, was post- master from 1872 to 1876. He lived in a large stone … Continue reading