Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Williamson, Albert M. May 26, 1859 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.82  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        ALBERT MASON WILLIAMSON. In journalistic circles of Florida there are 
few names that are better known or the owners of which are more highly esteemed 
then ALBERT MASON WILLIAMSON. Coming to Florida in 1882, he was for fifteen 
years engaged in orange culture, but after losing a hardly-won fortune in that 
business, due to a sudden climatic change, turned his attention to newspaper 
publishing, and has since been the owner of the “The Floridian” of Jacksonville.
	Mr. Williamson was born May 26, 1859, at Greensboro, Alabama, and 
belongs to the Williamsons of North Carolina and the Masons of Virginia, family 
names well-known to historians of those states. All sections of the old hot 
South were impoverished in the days when he was passing through boyhood and 
youth, and educational advantages were more than limited, but through the 
affectionate kindness of his sister, Miss MARY L. WILLIAMSON, one of the most 
highly educated woman of her day and locality, whom he holds in grateful 
remembrance, he received a classical if not a collegiate education, and of him 
it may be said that “he knew a little Latin and less Greek.” Mr. Williamson
removed to Florida in 1882 and became extensively engaged in orange culture,
and after fifteen years of labor and privations attending the accumulation of a
comfortable competency, this fortune was eliminated by the freeze of February
8, 1895.
	In the meantime, in 1893, Mr. Williamson had been united in marriage 
with Miss VIRGINIA WILLIAMS, of Tallahassee, and in the fall of 1895, with Mrs. 
Williamson, came to Jacksonville, where he has since resided and been engaged 
in journalism. In 1898 he bought “The Floridian,” a weekly newspaper
established at Tallahassee in 1828, but since removed to Jacksonville, the
oldest, and for fifty or more years probably the most influential newspaper
ever published in Florida.
	Mr. Williamson has held only one public office in his career. He was
elected a member of the State Senate from the Ninth Senatorial District, and
served efficiently in that body from 1893 to 1895.


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