The study of the career and accomplishments of a successful man is full of educational value, especially when such an individual has achieved tangible and practical results. A record of the accomplishments of some men in the brief span of their life’s period reads like romance. Without knowledge of attending conditions, it seems almost impossible […]
Among the more distinguished physicians and surgeons of Walton County, who have established a reputation for ability and integrity, none are more worthy of attention than Dr. Charles B. McKinnon, of DeFuniak Springs. He has not only achieved honorable success in his profession, but has gained distinction in public and military affairs, and his progressive […]
In journalistic and art printing circles of Florida, few names are better known than that of Herbert Felkel, editor of the St. Augustine Evening Record and vice president and manager of the Record Company. Beginning his connection with journalism when a student at college, Mr. Felkel has made rapid advancement in his chosen profession, and […]
During a period of thirty-five years Hon. Alexander R. Campbell, of DeFuniak Springs, has been before the people of his community in one or another public capacity, and as the incumbent of various public positions has discharged competently every trust reposed in him. Since 1917 he has occupied the position of county judge of Walton […]
A native of progressive, stirring Walton County, Carl Crosby has the distinction of being the youngest clerk of the court in the State of Florida, a post which he holds at DeFuniak Springs. His career has been a somewhat varied and active one and includes active service in France with the American Expeditionary Forces. Mr. […]
During the past several generations there have been few wholesome movements on foot in Walton County, for economic and intellectual development, that have not commanded the support of one or more members of the Gillis family. These men have always been noted for the firm grasp they have maintained on the large essentials of human […]
A hand-written list of Indian War and Civil War burials in Gum Creek Cemetery in Glendale was recently discovered. Links to the men’s memorials could be found for eleven out of twelve of them. J. F. Davis (Confederate) 26 August 1840 – 4 April 1915 Robert J. Davis (Co. F, 53d Alabama Mounted Infantry Regiment, […]
In honor of Black History Month, below are four men who held office during Reconstruction. This information is excerpted from Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 by Canter Brown (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998). Henry W. Call Born 1834, Florida. Mulatto. AME Minister. Alive in DeFuniak Springs 1910. Washington County voter registrar 1868; Walton County […]
Ann L. Butts and John Brown married and settled in the Sandy Creek area of Walton County. They had a total of eight children, three of whom were identical triplets. That would be remarkable in itself, but their names made them all the more memorable. As the story goes . . . . At the […]
NATURAL FEATURES OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL FLORIDA Florida, as a whole, forms a part of the geographical province known as the Coastal Plain—a broad tract of relatively low land which extends from New York to Mexico, rising gradually from the coast to a height of a few hundred feet and for the most part apparently […]