Alachua County FlArchives Biographies.....Cubberly, Fred October 28, 1869 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol.III   pg.234-5  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

CUBBERLY, Hon. FRED, lawyer and author and United States district attorney at 
Gainesville, is one of the most scholarly members of the Alachua County bar, 
and has had a most varied experience.  As lawyer, author and a student of 
literature and history, he is well known.
	Judge CUBBERLY was born October 28, 1869, at Chillicothe, Missouri, a 
son of GEORGE and SARAH (FRAZIER) CUBBERLY, the latter of Scotch Quaker 
stock.  GEORGE CUBBERLY was born in Ohio, being a descendant of ancestors who 
came from Cubberly Manor, England, at an early date, settling first in New 
Jersey and later removing to Ohio.  During his earlier years GEORGE CUBBERLY 
followed a somewhat adventurous career in Mexico, California and elsewhere in 
the western country, being a miner and prospector and at one time holding the 
rank of major in the United States Army.  During the later years of his life 
he settled in Florida, where he followed agricultural pursuits and orange 
growing, and died in 1896.  He had three children, all of whom are living.
	The eldest of his parents’ children, FRED CUBBERLY attended the public 
schools and as a youth followed farming and phosphate mining in association 
with his father.  His tastes and inclinations, however, ran toward the law, 
and about the time of his father’s death he entered upon the study of his 
chosen profession and was admitted to the bar in 1898.  He immediately began 
practice at Bronson and followed his profession there and at Cedar Keys until 
1908, when he was appointed United States attorney by President Roosevelt, a 
position which he retained for four years.  In the meantime, in 1909, he took 
up his residence at Gainesville, which has been his home and the scene of his 
activities to the present.  In 1914 he was appointed judge of the Municipal 
Court, a position which he also held in 1915, and from 1917 to 1921 acted as 
referee in bankruptcy.  In December, 1921, he was appointed United States 
district attorney and this office he now holds.  He is thoroughly versed in 
every phase of the law, and in the conduct of his office has been energetic 
and capable.  His large library embraces both legal and general literature, 
and his outward characteristics and daily life, he evinces every mark of the 
cultured, energetic, able and progressive lawyer and gentleman.  Judge 
CUBBERLY is the author of a number of articles which have been published in 
newspapers and magazines, and one sketch, “The Dade Massacre”, was ordered 
published by the United States Senate as a public document in 1921.  Judge 
CUBBERLY was appointed a member of the Dade Memorial Commission by the 
governor of the state in 1921, and is now chairman of the commission, which is 
engaged in marking and improving the site of the Dade battleground as a public 
park.


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