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• Blanding, Albert Hazen    b. November 9, 1876  d. December 26, 1970
  US Army General. In 1894 he graduated from East Florida Seminary (now the University of Florida). He became active in the lumber business, and he later worked in banking and mining. In 1895 he enlisted in the Florida National Guard. He served in the Spanish-American War, and in 1899 he was commissioned as a Captain. As a Colonel he commanded the 2nd Florida Infantry Regiment during its 1916 Mexican border service. During World War I Blanding was promoted to Brigadier General and commanded...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
   
• Cade, Dr. Robert (James Robert)    b. September 26, 1927  d. November 27, 2007
  Inventor. He was a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Florida, where he invented the sports drink Gatorade in 1965. The drink was devised to help UF Gator football players deal with the sweltering heat, which led to intense dehydration. When Cade offered the patent rights of the drink to the university they turned him down. He then signed a deal with Stokley-Van Camp who began advertising and selling it. Soon NFL Football teams began making Gatorade available on the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cause of death: Kidney failure
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
   
• Davis, Robert Wyche    b. March 15, 1849  d. September 15, 1929
  US Congressman, Gainesville Mayor. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Florida's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1897 to 1905. Also served as a Member of the Florida State House of Representatives from 1884 to 1885, Speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives in 1885, and Mayor of Gainesville, Florida, from 1924 to 1925.
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
   
• Finley, Jesse Johnson    b. November 18, 1812  d. November 6, 1904
  US Congressman, Memphis Mayor. Served as a General in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Florida's 1st and 2nd Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1876 to 1877, 1879, and 1881 to 1882. Also served as a Member of the Arkansas State Senate in 1841, Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1845, Member of the Florida State Senate in 1850, Candidate for Presidential Elector from Florida in 1852, Circuit Judge from 1853 to 1861, and Confederate...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
   
• Harty Jr., Adm. Harry Lafayette   b. July 25, 1917  d. August 15, 1986
  US Navy Vice Admiral. He was born in Grays Point Missouri on 25 July 1917. Harty attended the Virginia Military Institute then entered the United States Naval Academy in 1935. Harty graduated Annapolis in 1939 and was assigned to the USS Saratoga. He was aboard the Saratoga during her first action of World War II. In 1942 Harty attended flight training at Pensacola Florida becoming a naval aviator; as an aviator he served as executive officer of of the VP-204 then as commanding officer of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Jimi Brown)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
   
• Hill, William Luther    b. October 17, 1873  d. January 5, 1951
  US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Florida in 1936. (Bio by: K)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
  Plot: Section 2, Lot 77, Space 13
   

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