Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Madison, Joseph C. January 3, 1862 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.61  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        JOSEPH CHADWICK MADISON, justice of the peace at Jacksonville, has led 
an active career of a somewhat diversified character, in which his versatile 
talents have been brought into play in discharging the duties of positions of a 
varied nature. He has traveled extensively, is a man of more than ordinary 
learning, and in his present position, in which he is serving his first term, 
is fully maintaining his place in the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens.
	Mr. Madison was born January 3, 1862, at San Francisco, California, and is a son of
P. M. and HARRIET (CUTLER) MADISON, the former a native of Connecticut and the
latter of New York State. P. M. MADISON received a college education, and as a young
man engaged in civil engineering, which he followed until 1849, in that year joining
the gold rush to California, to which state he traveled via the Isthmus of Panama in
a sailing vessel. On his arrival he first gave his attention to the lumber business
at Sacramento, but later spent some time in gold
citizens.
	Mr. Madison was born January 3, 1862, at San Francisco, California, and 
is a son of P. M. and HARRIET (CUTLER) MADISON, the former a native of 
Connecticut and the latter of New York State. P. M. MADISON received a college 
education, and as a young man engaged in civil engineering, which he followed 
until 1849, in that year joining the gold rush to California, to which state he 
traveled via the Isthmus of Panama in a sailing vessel. On his arrival he first 
gave his attention to the lumber business at Sacramento, but later spent some 
time in gold-mining. His ventures, however, did not succeed in these 
directions, and he returned to the vocation of civil engineering, in which he 
passed the remainder of his life, being located in various communities. He was 
originally a whig and later a republican in politics, and as a fraternalist was
affiliated with the Masons, in which order he attained to the Knight Templar
degree. He attended and helped to support the Baptist Church, of which Mrs.
Madison, who is also deceased, was a devout member.
	Of the eight children born to P. M. and HARRIET MADISON four are 
living. JOSEPH CHADWICK MADISON, the fourth child in order of birth, attended 
the public schools of Williamsburg, New York, and Rhode Island, and in the 
latter state and New Jersey mastered the trade of machinist. He first came to 
Florida in 1892, and spent some time clerking in hotels, following which he 
secured a position with the City of Jacksonville as inspector during the 
raising of $1,000,000 on the first bond issue. During the Spanish-American war 
he was an inspector on public works at Tampa for about one year, and then 
returned to Jacksonville and secured a position with the Benedict-Pollack 
Company, a wholesale dry goods house, with which he remained for four years as 
traveling representative. On leaving this concern he joined the sales force of 
the Covington Company, also a wholesale dry goods enterprise, and remained 
therewith for fourteen years. When he retired from the road Mr. Madison became 
private secretary to Hon. JOHN MARTIN, Mayor of Jacksonville, a position which 
he retained for 3 ½ years, and in November, 1920, was elected justice of the 
peace for a year’s term, taking that office January 4, 1921. Judge Madison is a
member of Jacksonville Lodge No. 445, Loyal Order of Moose, and is a past
dictator thereof. In politics he is a democrat, and is considered one of the
strong and capable men of his party at Jacksonville. He has several civic
connections of importance, and in various movements for the general welfare has
aligned himself with other farsighted and public spirited citizens in
forwarding the interests of the city and its people.
	In 1897 Mr. Madison was united in marriage with Miss MARY MATILDA
McKEE, of Canada, and to this union there have been born two sons: SAMUEL
McKEE, who died in infancy; and WILLIAM McKEE, educated in the schools of Duval
County, Florida, and the law department of University of Florida, from which he
was graduated as a member of the class of 1921. He is now engaged in the
practice of law at Jacksonville.



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