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Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 41 Number 2 Article 1 1962 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1962) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 41 : No. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol41/iss2/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2 VOLUME XLI NUMBER 2 OCTOBER, 1962 Published by THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Published by STARS, 1962 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41 [1962], No. 2, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA, 1856 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, successor, 1902 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, incorporated, 1905 by GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS, FRANCIS P. FLEMING, GEORGE W. WILSON, CHARLES M. COOPER, JAMES P. TALIAFERRO, V. W. SHIELDS, WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, GEORGE P. RANEY. OFFICERS FRANK B. SESSA, president JAMES R. KNOTT, 1st vice president LUCIUS S. RUDER, 2nd vice president THELMA PETERS, recording secretary MARGARET CHAPMAN, executive secretary D IRECTORS ADAM G. ADAMS JAMES H. LIPSCOMB III CHARLES W. ARNADE PAUL L. MADDOCK THOMAS O. BROWN MARY MCRAE DUNCAN L. CLINCH REMBERT W. PATRICK WILLIAM M. GOZA BENJAMIN F. ROGERS W ALTER H ELLIER WESLEY STOUT ERNEST H. JERNIGAN JUSTIN WEDDELL GILBERT L. LYCAN, ex-officio HERBERT J. DOHERTY, JR., ex-officio (and the officers) (All correspondence relating to Society business, memberships, and Quarterly subscriptions should be addressed to Miss Margaret Chapman, University of South Florida Library, Tampa, Florida. Articles for publi- cation, books for review, and editorial correspondence should be addressed to the Quarterly, Box 3645, University Station, Gainesville, Florida.) * * * To explore the field of Florida history, to seek and gather up the ancient chronicles in which its annals are contained, to retain the legendary lore which may yet throw light upon the past, to trace its monuments and remains, to elucidate what has been written to disprove the false and support the true, to do justice to the men who have figured in the olden time, to keep and preserve all that is known in trust for those who are to come after us, to increase and extend the knowledge of our history, and to teach our children that first essential knowledge, the history of our State, are objects well worthy of our best efforts. To accomplish these ends, we have organized the Historical Society of Florida. GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS Saint Augustine, April, 1857. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol41/iss2/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME XLI OCTOBER, 1962 NUMBER 2 CONTENTS JULIEN CHANDLER YONGE ................ Rembert W. Patrick ..... 103 THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1885 ............................................. Edward C. Williamson ....... 116 THE STORY OF CAPTAIN JOHN C. C ASEY ............................... .............. Fred W. Wallace ...... 127 LINCOLN'S COURIER: JOHN L. WORDEN'S MISSION TO F ORT P ICKENS ....................................... James Jones...... 145 MEMOIR OF A WEST POINTER IN FLORIDA: 1825 ....................................................... Cecil D. Eby, Jr...... 154 BOOK REVIEWS ....................................................... 165 T HE A NNUAL MEETING, MAY 3-5, 1962 .............................. 189 N EWS AND NOTES . 196 THE EDITOR'S CORNER “TALES OF OLD FLORIDA," ........... BY Jane D. Brush ..... 199 CONTRIBUTORS . 20 8 COPYRIGHT 1962 by the Florida Historical Society. Reentered as second class matter July 2, 1956, at the post office at Jacksonville, Florida, under the Act of August 24, 1912. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, CONVENTION PRESS, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA i Published by STARS, 1962 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41 [1962], No. 2, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Doherty, Richard Keith Call: Southern Unionist, by Nathan D. Shappee ............................................................................ 165 Tio, Nuevas fuentes para la historia de Puerto Rico, by Charles W. Arnade .............................................................................. 16 7 Hanson, The Pied Piper of Peru, by Webster Merritt ............ 168 Bell, Glimpses of the Panhandle, by Henry S. Marks ............... 169 Wooster, The Secession Conventions of the South, by Dorothy Dodd ......................................................................................... 170 Easterby, The Colonial Records of South Carolina, by Robert S. Lambert ........................................................................... 172 Temple and Coleman, Georgia’s Journeys, by Hugh T. Lefler ................................................................................. 173 Grummond, Baratarians and the Battle of New Orleans, and Rankin, Battle of New Orleans: A British View, by John K. Mahon ................................................................................. 174 Gunderson, Old Gentlemen’s Convention, by R. L. Goulding ................................................................................. 176 McGee and Lander, A Rebel Came Home, by Mary Elizabeth Massey ............................................................... 177 Stackpole, Sheridan in the Shenandoah, by David L. Smiley .............................................................................. 179 Hassler, Commanders of the Army of the Potomac, by Merlin G. Cox ................................................................................. 180 Coulter, James Monroe Smith Georgia Planter, by W. W. Rogers ................................................................................. 182 Hale, Guide to Photocopied Historical Materials in the United States and Canada, by Marjorie G. Wynne ............ 183 ii https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol41/iss2/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2 Published by STARS, 1962 5 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41 [1962], No. 2, Art. 1 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol41/iss2/1 6 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2 JULIEN CHANDLER YONGE By REMBERT W. PATRICK N THE FALL OF 1892 a thirteen-year-old boy requested and I received a copy of Campbell’s Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida. 1 Beginning with Panfilo de Narvaez’s discovery of Pen- sacola Bay, the 284-page book traced the explorations of Hernan- do de Soto, described the ill-fated attempt of Tristan de Luna to found a colony at Pensacola, and detailed the eventual permanent settlement there. The author emphasized the British Period of Colonial Florida, overweighted the importance of Pensacola, and ended his narrative with the American occupation of the province. By contemporary standards Campbell’s volume lacked many attributes of good history, but its dull pages stirred the imagina- tion of the thirteen-year-old Julien Chandler Yonge. He read and reread the book. It stimulated him to add to his one-volume per- sonal library, whenever possible, other accounts of Florida. Julien Yonge was born in Pensacola on January 20, 1879, the second child and first son of Philip Keyes and Lucie Cairns Davis Yonge. His paternal ancestors had arrived in East Florida during the British Period, and his father was already on the road to financial success in the lumbering business and showed de- veloping interest in civic and state affairs. In Pensacola Julien passed through a normal, healthy childhood. All around him were sites rich in historical lore. From his home on West Inten- dencia Street he could see the waters where Spanish galleons, British frigates, and American warships once rode at anchor. Out toward the Gulf of Mexico the tip of Santa Rosa Island jut- ted westward, and on its sandy land Spaniards had attempted a settlement. There, too, stood the impressive brick walls of Fort Pickens, the grounds of the fort overgrown with vegetation and its masonry walls crumbling from neglect. On unpaved roads overlooking Pensacola Bay Julien Yonge rode his bicycle until he gained a mastery of the vehicle. His legs grew strong and his speed and endurance won praise from his 1. Richard L. Campbell, Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida (Cleve- land, 1892). [ 103 ] Published by STARS, 1962 7 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41 [1962], No. 2, Art. 1 104 FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY elders. His bicycle provided him transportation to Public School Number 1, which he attended for seven years. After study, reading, and play, the teenage boy had time to clip and paste newspaper articles in his scrapbook. A variety of subjects caught his fancy: stamp collecting, the annual cubic feet of water flowing from the mouths of the Mississippi River into the Gulf, the Pensacola Fire Department, poems, and jokes. A booklet by Max L. Bear of Pensacola entitled “What Congress Has Done” and containing eight blank pages won a place in the scrapbook. A long account of the New York Stock Market with explanations of bulls and bears, puts, calls, and spreads, long and short sales, pools and corners, and ballooning of stocks and milking the Street went into his record. Perhaps a subconscious mind pushing him toward eventual editorship forced him to retain
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