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Judge Ellis Connell May
Ellis Connell May (December 10, 1868 - November 16, 1957) was a pioneering Florida Judge.
Born in 1868 in South Georgia, about a mile east of the bridge across the Tenmile Creek, five miles out fr...vizualizați mai multeEllis Connell May (December 10, 1868 - November 16, 1957) was a pioneering Florida Judge.
Born in 1868 in South Georgia, about a mile east of the bridge across the Tenmile Creek, five miles out from Nashville, his family moved across the Creek to the west bank when he was four years old.
In spite of lifelong warnings about its dangers, May moved to Florida in August 1890, where he soon found that “some of the advice given to young Georgia men of that period was well-founded in fact, as some of the stories to follow will indicate.”
He arrived in Citrus County in June 1892 and initially worked as a common laborer and merchant, before he turned to law, eventually becoming a renowned Judge. During his expansive career, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, a State Attorney, and then a county judge of Citrus County, until his retirement in January 1949.
Thereafter he set up a successful insurance business, which he sold and then retired once more, but soon found himself bored by idleness, and so took the opportunity to finally write about his life—something he had never had time to do previously.
Judge May died in Citrus County, Florida in 1957 at the age of 88.vizualizați mai puține
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Gaters, Skeeters And Malary: Recollections of a Pioneer Florida Judge