Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Mershon, Martin L. 1889 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 February 15, 2016, 11:25 pm Source: Vol. II pg.170-171 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present MARTIN L. MERSHON was a lieutenant in the Army during the World war and so soon after his discharge located in Miami, where he has since been engaged in a su successful practice as a lawyer. He is the son of a late distinguished lawyer an and jurist of both Florida and Georgia. His father Judge MARTIN L. MERSHON was born at Monticello, Florida, in 1 1839. He served in the Confederate Army as a member of the Third Florida R Regiment and after the war became a lawyer. For a number of years he lived at B Brunswick, Georgia, where he enjoyed an extensive practice, and became a man of p prominence both as a lawyer and judge. He was especially noted as a criminal l lawyer. He was elected and served for fourteen years as Judge of the Circuit C Court for the Brunswick circuit. In the early ‘90s Judge Mershon returned to Florida, locating at F Fernandina, where he resumed private practice. He also became active in public a and political affairs in his native state, and served as a delegate to the s state democratic and other political conventions. According to the records of t the local courts, Judge Mershon was one of the lawyers to attend the first s session of the Dade County Circuit Court. No railroad had yet been built to M Miami, and he made trips here by boat from Fernandina. Judge Mershon died N November 5, 1904. He married Miss BELLE BEARDEN, a native of Clinton, South C Carolina. They were married at Kissimmee, Florida. Mrs. Mershon spent her last y years in Miami, where she died in February, 1922. She was a member of the E Eastern Star and the Trinity Methodist Church. Her two sons are MARTIN L. M MERSHON and L. B. MERSHON, the latter of Arcadia, Florida. MARTIN L. MERSHON Jr., was born at Brunswick, Georgia, in 1889, but has lived in Florida since early childhood. He acquired a grammar and high school education and graduated in law with the LL. B. from the University of Florida in 1912. Mr. Mershon practiced law in Ocala, Florida, until he entered the army. He was transferred from the Eighty-first Division and was commissioned in 19 1918 a second lieutenant at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Georgia, and was assigned to du duty with the replacement troops at Camp Gordon. He was honorably discharged Ja January 1, 1919. Soon afterward he came to Miami and began practice, and is a member of t the prominent law firm of Atkinson, Evans & Mershon with offices at the Burdine B Building. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/dade/bios/mershon306bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb