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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol.II, page 4, 1923
Author: The History of Florida: Past and Present

        SHEPPARD, WILLIAM BOSTWICK, United States Judge of the Northern 
District of Florida, has earned some of the best distinctions associated with 
the Federal judiciary.  He has been at all times in intimate touch with the 
life and affairs of his time, and yet his decisions have indicated that 
detachment which is perhaps the first essential of wise and well considered 
judgment.
	Judge SHEPPARD was born at Bristol, Florida, October 5, 1861, son of 
JOSEPH and CYNTHIA (McALILEY) SHEPPARD.  He was educated in public schools, and 
during 1881–82 was a student in the University of North Carolina.  He was 
admitted to the bar in 1891, and practice law at Apalachicola, until 1903; he 
became interested in public affairs before qualifying as a lawyer.  He was 
candidate for the state senator in 1888.  In 1896, he was the nominee of his 
party for state attorney general.  Was collector of customs at the port of 
Apalachicola, from 1889 to 1894, and again from 1897 to 1901, and Mayor of 
Apalachicola in 1894–95.
	In 1903, President Roosevelt appointed him United States attorney for 
the Northern District of Florida and he held that post of duty until he was 
appointed United States judge the same district on September 5, 1907.  Judge 
SHEPPARD has presided in many important cases.  He enjoys the distinction of 
having held court in more different states than any judge living.  He has sat 
in every district, except one, in the Fifth Judicial Circuit comprising Georgia 
and the five Gulf states, including a term in the principal of the Fifth 
Circuit from Savannah, Georgia to El Paso, Texas.  A phrase, now of generally 
current usage in newspaper and other editorials, was originated by Judge 
SHEPPARD in the notable American Naval Stores case tried at Savannah in April, 
1908, when he declared "guilt to be personal," and was the first judge to 
imprison offenders under the Sherman Antitrust Law.  Judge SHEPPARD is also 
famous for the promptness with which he dispatches the business of the court 
where he presides.  In 1911, for more than a year he held the terms and 
transacted the business simultaneously of the Southern District of Georgia and 
the Northern and Southern districts of Florida.  Since 1914, by invitation he 
sits in New York City, the Southern District of New York, in aid of the 
resident judges two months every summer.
	Judge SHEPPARD was a republican in politics, is affiliated with the 
Knights of Pythias and Elks, and is a member of the Country Club in his home 
city of Pensacola.  At Bristol, Florida, May 10, 1890, he married MARY EMILY 
GIBSON, daughter of Rev. J.  C.  GIBSON, who was a Unitarian minister.  Judge 
and Mrs. SHEPPARD had the following children; PEARL FLEMING, wife of HAROLD 
WAKEFIELD SCOFIELD of Morenci, Michigan; CLAIRE SHEPPARD; ELIZABETH, wife of 
Lieut. FRED M. BYERS of the United States Navy, now stationed at the canal 
zone; CHRISTINE, who married HERMAN E.  HOLLAND, a lieutenant in the navy at 
San Diego, California; and WILLIAM B., Jr., now fourteen years of age.


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