Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Imeson, Thomas C. November 10, 1880 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.90-91  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

        THOMAS COLE IMESON has proved himself a staunch apostle of p
progressiveness, both in connection with business affairs and in his service as a
a member of the board of city commissioners of his home city of Jacksonville, w
where he is manager of the substantial wholesale enterprise conducted by the P
Ponce de Leon Perfume Company, 226 Hogan Street.
	Mr. IMESON was born at Cross Keys, Alabama, November 10, 1880, and is 
the youngest child and only son in a family of three children born to JONATHAN 
and MARY JANE (COLE) IMESON. The father and mother were both born in England, 
the former in 1838 and the latter in 1842, their marriage having been 
solemnized at Hastings, Minnesota. The death of the mother occurred in 1898 and 
that of the father in 1910. JONATHAN IMESON was a lad of five years at the time 
of his parents’ emigration from England to the United States, and the family 
home was established at Hastings, Minnesota. He was a son of THOMAS and MARY 
JANE (BARWISE) IMESON, who gained pioneer honors in Minnesota, but who later 
removed to Detroit, Michigan, where THOMAS IMESON followed the trade of stone 
cutter. He was a resident of Cheney, Washington, at the time of his death. 
JONATHAN IMESON gained his youthful education in the schools of Minnesota and 
Michigan, and he also learned the carpenter trade. Upon coming to the South he 
was for some time engaged in business as a contractor and builder, and operated 
a cotton plantation at Cross Keys, Alabama, and from 1881 to 1903 he was 
engaged in the business of contracting at DeLand Florida. He then passed about f
five years in California, once he removed to the State of Washington, where he p
passed the remainder of his life. For many years he was affiliated with the M
Masonic fraternity.
	THOMAS C. IMESON was an infant at the time when the family home was 
established at DeLand, Florida, and there his early education was acquired in 
the public schools. He later availed himself of the advantages of the 
Jacksonville Business College and also took correspondence-school courses in 
law and civil engineering. He was for twelve years an attaché of the office of 
the city engineer of Jacksonville, and he then, in 1909, engaged in independent 
business by opening a well-equipped novelty store. He has proved a th
thoroughgoing and enterprising business man, and is now general manager of the Po
Ponce de Leon Perfume Company, as noted in the opening paragraph of this sketch.
	Under a special charter granted by the Legislature to the town of Pablo B
Beach, Florida, summer residents of the Pablo Beach who reside in Jacksonville a
are allowed to vote and hold office in Pablo. THOMAS C. IMESON, under this p
provision, was elected a town councilman of Pablo Beach in 1915 for a term of t
two years, and one of his first efforts, along with other citizens of Pablo B
Beach, was to put through a bond issue sufficient to establish electric lights a
and a sewerage system and by ordinance create a board of bond trustees, which i
improvement the town now enjoys. He was reelected several terms, and served t
three times as president of that counsel, retiring of his own accord.
	In 1918 Mr. Imeson was appointed a member of the Jacksonville City 
Council, to fill a vacancy, as representative of the First Ward. He was elected 
councilman-at-large the following year, and in 1921 he was elected city C
Commissioner, the commission form of municipal government having been adopted. A
As a city official he has been alert and progressive, has advocated movements t
that have been of general benefit to the community, and among his recent s
suggestions in the furtherance of street improvements has been that of coating o
old brick street pavements with asphalt, this method making possible extended i
improvements at minimum expense, and a test of the matter being in process at t
the time of this writing, in the spring of 1922.
	As is to be inferred, Mr. Imeson is a staunch advocate of the 
principles of the democratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Solomon Lodge, No. 20, F. 
and A. M.; is past chancellor of Montefiore Lodge No. 2, Knights of Pythias, w
which he has twice represented in the Florida Grand Lodge; and he is popular in b
both business and social circles in his home city.
	November 10, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Imeson and Miss MABEL F
FOWLER, and their one child is a son, JOHN G.


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