Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Herlong, Mark B. February 19, 1876 - ************************************************ 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 September 8, 2015, 10:52 pm Source: Vol. II pg.69 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present MARK BOYD HERLONG, M. D. The precedence of Doctor Herlong as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the Florida metropolis needs no further evidence than the work he has achieved in his profession in the important positions which he has held in connection with professional service and civic affairs. Jacksonville claims him as one of its loyal and progressive citizens. Dr. Herlong was born at Edgefield, South Carolina, February 19, 1876, and at the same place were born his parents, DANIEL HENRY HERLONG and GEORGIA M. (CROUGH) HERLONG, the year of the former nativity having been 1845 and that of the latter 1850. Her death occurred in 1895. Of their family of seven sons and three daughters four of the sons are deceased. DANIEL H. HERLONG was reared and educated in his native state and he was but fifteen years old when he entered the Confederate service in the Civil war, as a member of the Seventh South Carolina Infantry. His first year of service was virtually in the capacity of substitute for his father, and he then became eligible for regular enlistment. He was thus sixteen years of age when he became a member of the Hampton Legion, with which he served as a scout in the Gary Brigade. He continued in service until the close of the war, and was with General Lee’s forces at Appomattox just prior to the final surrender. He contrived to make his escape the night before the surrender, and thus never made a definite surrender, a fact that was a matter of no little satisfaction to him throughout the rest of his life. In South Carolina Mr. Herlong later became a successful lumber manufacture, with which line of industry he there continued his association until 1886, when he came with his family to Florida and established his residence in Columbia County, where the station of Herlong, on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, was named in his honor. He continued a prominent representative of the lumber manufacturing industry in that County until 1896, since which time he has lived virtually retired. He served two terms as County Commissioner of Columbia County and about four years as an agricultural demonstrator for the Government. He is a stalwart democrat, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as is also his wife, and is affiliated with the United Confederate Veterans and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. MARK B. HERLONG gained his rudimentary education in the schools of his native state and was ten years of age at the time of the family removal to Florida, where his educational work included the discipline of the high school at Fort White and that of the State Agricultural College at Lake City. In 1908 he graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, from which institution he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine and in which he took an effective post-graduate course in 1919. In the year that recorded his graduation Doctor Herlong established himself in practice at Jacksonville, and here he has won high reputation as a specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of children. He is an active member of the Duval County Medical Society, the Florida State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association, the American Medical Association and the American Society for the Study of Internal Secretions. He is a member of the staff of St. Luke’s Hospital, and is physician in charge of the clinic of the Duval County Anti-Tuberculosis Society. He served two years (1912-14) as city physician of Jacksonville, has served as president of Duval County Medical Society, and in June, 1921, he was elected city commissioner, in which capacity he has active charge of the health and sanitation department of the city government. Doctor Herlong is a vital figure in the local ranks of the democratic party, was a member of the democratic executive committee of Duval County for four years, 1912-15. In 1922 he is serving his third term as a member of the Jacksonville Board of Education, and in the midst of the manifold exactions of his substantial professional practice he finds time and opportunity to give effective service and to exemplify his loyalty and progressiveness as a citizen. In the Masonic fraternity his basic affiliation is with Solomon Lodge No. 21, A. F. and A. M. He is a member also of Jacksonville Lodge No. 221, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is eligible for affiliation with the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a direct descendent of CONRAD HERLONG, who came from Holland to America prior to the Revolution and settled at Dutch Forks, South Carolina, six of his seven sons having been patriot soldiers in the great struggle for national independence and all having lost their lives in the battle at Cowpens. May 13, 1900, recorded the marriage of Doctor Herlong and Miss MINNIE L. ROBINSON, who was born at Lake City, Florida, and who presides graciously over their attractive home in the City of Jacksonville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/duval/bios/herlong156bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb