Alachua County FlArchives Biographies.....Tison, Gordon B. December 31, 1875 - 
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Source: Vol. II, pg.19-20    The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

TISON, GORDON BELDON has practiced his profession as a doctor of dental surgery 
at Gainesville for nearly twenty years, and is a recognized leader in civic 
affairs there.
	He was born at Providence, Bradford County, Florida, December 31, 1875, 
son of WILLIAM ORSON and MARTHA (HODGES) TISON. His father was born at 
Newnansville, then the county seat of Alachua County, where the grandfather 
Tison was a pioneer. The mother is a native of Hamilton County, Florida. Since 
1887 Doctor Tison's parents have lived at Gainesville, where his father has 
supervised his interests as a farmer, stock raiser and trader.
	GORDON B. TISON grew up on a farm, attended common schools, the public 
schools of Gainesville, spent three years in the East Florida Seminary at 
Gainesville, and during 1893 attended business college at Lexington, Kentucky. 
Soon afterward he entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, where he was 
graduated Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1897. For five years after graduating 
Doctor Tison was engaged in operative dentistry in New York City. He returned 
to Florida, and for a year poor health prevented his resuming his profession, 
but since 1905 he has looked after a large and prosperous private practice at 
Gainesville, and his work has brought him a state wide reputation in dental 
surgery, and this reputation extends to many other states. Doctor Tison keeps 
in touch with the rapidly advancing knowledge of dental practice, and has 
attended many clinics and done much post-graduate work, taking some time nearly 
every year for this purpose. He was for four years, from 1917 to 1921, 
recording secretary and for 1922 was president of the Florida State Dental 
Society. He is also a member of the District and National Dental societies.
	Doctor Tison served as mayor of Gainesville in 1918, and in 1919 was 
elected the second president of the Gainesville Rotary Club. He is a past-
exalted ruler of Gainesville Lodge No. 990, Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Elks, and among his hobbies are hunting, fishing and golf and he is a member of 
the Gainesville Golf and Country Club.
	In 1898, at Gainesville, Doctor Tison married Miss CORA E. HYDE, a 
native of Indiana, daughter of GEORGE W. HYDE, who was formerly a merchant of 
Gainesville, Florida, and now lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Doctor 
and Mrs. Tison have one daughter, MARTHA ELIZABETH, now the wife of RICHARD 
BORING, of Gainesville, and they are the parents of one child, CORA ELIZABETH.



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