Alachua County FlArchives Biographies.....Hampton, William W. January 22, 1856 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol II, page 12 , 1923
Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present  

        HAMPTON, WILLIAM WADE has been a member of the Florida bar almost half 
a century, and enjoys a distinctive place in the profession and in the civic 
affairs of his home city of Gainesville.
     	He was born near Albany, Georgia, January 22, 1856, received his early 
education in private schools at Bainbridge in his native state, and was 
admitted to the bar May 23, 1876, at Camilla, Georgia. On June I, 1876, he 
arrived in Florida and became associated in the practice of law with his 
brother, EDWIN MARCY HAMPTON, under the firm name of Hampton and Hampton at 
Gainesville. In July of 1876 E. M. HAMPTON established the Gainesville Times, 
the first democratic paper published there after the war, and the brothers 
continued its operation for many years.
     	W. W. HAMPTON is a past eminent commander of the Knights Templars, is a 
member of the Mystic Shrine, is a Rotarian and is chancellor of the Diocese of 
the Episcopal Church in Florida. He is owner of the Hampton Building in 
Gainesville, and vice president of the First National Bank of Gainesville.
     	He married MARY ELLEN JORDAN, and they had six children, four of them 
now living. The two daughters were Mrs. C. D. DENNIS and Mrs. W. J. BUCK, the 
latter now deceased.  The sons, Captain W.W., Jr. Captain FRED J. of Tampa, and 
Captain EDWIN B., were all soldiers in the World war.  Captain W.W. and Captain 
EDWIN are now associated with their father in law practice at Gainesville.


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