Star of Florida, June 27, 1845
Tag: Gillis
1839 Court Appointments
Floridian and Advocate, February 2, 1839
The Florida Legislature, 1919
House, Walton County: D. Stuart Gillis, DeFuniak Springs
Stuart Knox Gillis
Stuart Knox Gillis, seventh son and eleventh child of John and Christian McIntosh Gillis, was born at Knox Hill, Walton County, Florida on July 28, 1866. He, like his older brothers, attended school at the Old Knox Hill Academy. As did many of his Gillis kin, Knox Gillis taught school in his younger days before becoming a prominent […]
Murdock and Minerva McQuagge
Murdock Gillis McQuagge (1843-1930) and his wife, Minerva Gainer McQuagge (1888-1952), were the parents of nine children, including Duncan Gillis McQuagge, the Bay County Tax Assessor from 1932 until 1952. Murdock’s father, Norman Daniel McQuagge, moved to Florida from North Carolina in the 1830s and settled in Walton County. Murdock was a farmer in Knox […]
Alexander L. McCaskill
Alexander L. McCaskill was born in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, on January 4, 1829. He moved to Walton County in 1852 where he married Catherine Campbell Gillis in 1858. They had three children, but only two survived to adulthood. In 1861, McCaskill was chosen to be a member of the Secession Convention and was […]
Harley and Coralie Wickersham
Harley Emmett Wickersham (1877-1953) and his wife Coralie (1875-1944) lived on Circle Drive in a home designed by Duncan Gillis, a well-known architect. Harley operated a funeral parlor a few blocks from their home that his father, Jonathan Adoniram Wickersham, founded in 1885. Coralie was from a prominent family that included her brother, Donald Stuart […]
Angus G. Campbell
To interpret the law properly in all its complexities and unerringly to apply its provisions to establish human rights and defeat injustice demands such a comprehensive knowledge not only of books but of life itself that he who reaches a high plane in this profession must command more than negative consideration in the minds of […]
Daniel Alexander Gillis
With the exception of a few terms Daniel A. Gillis has occupied the post of county assessor of Walton County since 1894. This long term of service alone should furnish sufficient evidence of his ability and fidelity to trust, but were it not sufficient such evidence could be found in the esteem and confidence in […]
Alexander Ray Campbell
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 […]