Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Stillman, Richard E. November 30, 1887 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.82-83  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        RICHARD EDGAR STILLMAN, of Jacksonville, is an able member of the bar,
a rising practitioner in criminal law and an influential member of the state
democracy. His career, while not of so long duration as some others, has been
one of achievement, and care and precision mark the preparation of all his
cases of whatever nature, his thoroughness of preparation ensuring a convincing
and clear presentation of whatever subject comes before him for adjustment.
	Mr. Stillman was born at San Diego, California, November 30, 1887, and 
is a son of JOHN EDGAR and MARTHA CLARK (De-YARMAN) STILLMAN, and a grandson of 
JOHN EDGAR and MARY (LASHIER) STILLMAN. His grandfather was a pioneer of 
Florida of 1875, in which year, with five companions, he came from Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, and settled in Volusia County, organizing the town of Orange City. 
While not a pioneer in residence, he enjoys the distinction of being one of the 
first to engage in the orange business in that district, where he became an 
honored and well-to-do citizen, the owner of a large and productive grove,
mayor of Orange City and a school official for years. He was prominent in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, was a past master of his Masonic Lodge, and in
politics was a republican.
	JOHN EDGAR STILLMAN, the younger, father of RICHARD EDGAR STILLMAN, was
born February 27, 1867, at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and was eight years of age
when brought to Florida, where he attended the Volusia County public schools
and East Florida Seminary, now the University of Florida. He was reared in the
orange growing business, in which he was engaged for many years, and became one
of the organizers of the Orange City Bank, of which he was president. In 1893
he came to Jacksonville and became associated with the Little Brother
Fertilizer and Phosphate Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer up to
1897. At that time he located at Pensacola, where he was appointed collector of
United States customs, a position which he retained for fourteen years, and was
also president of the Pensacola Investment Company, handling real estate, until 
his death, February 10, 1913. He served as chairman of the Florida Republican
State Central Committee for many years, but after devoting the best of his
energies toward a vain effort to organize a white republican party in Florida
he joined the democrats in 1912 and voted for Mr. Wilson. He was a member of
the Masonic fraternity and a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at Pensacola. Mrs. Stillman, also a native of Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, was born December 22, 1868, and survives her husband, as do
four of their five children.
	RICHARD EDGAR STILLMAN, the eldest of his parents’ children, attended 
the public schools of Orange City and Pensacola, following which he was sent to 
Yale University, where he graduated from the law department with the class of 
1909. At that time he located at Jacksonville and became associated with the 
law department of the Florida East Coast Railway, but severed his connections 
in 1914, since which year he has carried on in independent practice 
specializing to some extent in criminal law, a field in which he has attained 
more than a passing reputation. He maintains offices at Suite 514 West 
Building, and is a member of the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Florida 
State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. His religious 
connection is with the First Presbyterian Church. Always interested in public 
affairs, since young manhood he has been active in politics, and at present is 
a member of the Duval County Democratic Executive Committee. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason of Florida Consistory, and a member of Solomon Lodge, F. and A. M.;
Jacksonville Chapter, R. A. M., and Morocco Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and also
holds membership in Jacksonville Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and
the Seminole Club.

second degree Mason of Florida Consistory, and a member of Solomon Lodge, F.
and A. M.; Jacksonville Chapter, R. A. M., and Morocco Temple, A. A. O. N. M.
S., and also holds membership in Jacksonville Lodge, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and the Seminole Club.


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