Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Hilburn, O. P. March 7, 1892 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.113-114  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        O. P. HILBURN, one of the leading attorneys at Tampa, is a native of
Florida, his birth having occurred in Micanopy, March 7, 1892, a son of
Reverend J. P. and ELLA (PEACE) HILBURN. His father has been active in the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for more than forty years,
and is now presiding Elder of the Orlando District.
	O. P. HILBURN was educated in the public and high schools of his state, 
following which he graduated, in 1910, from Southern College with the degree of 
A. B. Having selected law as his life’s work, he entered Vanderbilt University,
graduating therefrom in 1913, with the degree of LL. B., and soon thereafter
began the practice of his profession in Tampa.
	In 1916 he was in the Mexican border troubles as second lieutenant in 
the Second Florida Infantry, and was mustered out in 1917. When the United 
States became a participant in the war with Germany he accepted a commission as 
second lieutenant in the Regular Army. He was later promoted to first 
lieutenant in the Eleventh Infantry, Fifth Division, serving with his division 
at the front in France until August, 1918, when he was transferred to the 
Thirty-eighth Infantry, Third Division. Mr. Hilburn was in active service in 
the Anould and Saint Die defensive sectors and St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne 
offensives. He was seriously wounded during the Argonne offensive, and after 
several months in the hospital was invalided home, in February, 1919, and in 
July of that year was placed upon the retired list of the U. S. Army, for 
disabilities received in action, and ordered home. He returned to Tampa and was 
appointed judge of the Juvenile Court of Hillsborough County, resigning this 
position in November, 1919, to accept appointment as Federal prohibition 
director for Florida, holding this office until August, 1921, since which time 
he has been engaged in the private practice of the law. In 1917 Mr. Hilburn 
married Miss REBAH ROBERTS, and they have one child, a son, JACK. Mr. Hilburn 
is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.


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