Orange County FlArchives Biographies.....CHILES, JOSEPH HASKELL February 14, 1874 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn Naev@earthlink.net August 21, 2007, 2:35 am Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923, Vol. III pg.104 CHILES, M.D., JOSEPH HASKELL, has been successfully established in the practice of his profession at Orlando, Orange County, since his retirement from active service in the sanitary department of the United States Army in the great World war. Doctor Chiles was born at Greenville, Madison County, Florida, on the 14th of February, 1874, and is a son of JOSEPH W. and LELA (RAYSOR) CHILES, the former a native of Georgia and the latter of Florida. SEABORN GREEN CHILES, grandfather of the Doctor, was born in Virginia and became a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the service of which he labored long and earnestly in Georgia. He had been left an orphan in that state when a boy, and he and his two brothers became separated. JOHN RAYSOR, maternal grandfather of Doctor Chiles, was born in South Carolina and became a pioneer settler in Jefferson County, Florida. JOSEPH W. CHILES, who is now living retired at Lakeland, Florida, has to his credit a record of productive industry in connection with farm enterprise, lumbering operations and phosphate mining. He is a staunch democrat, and he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist Church. The public schools of Fort White, Columbia County, gave to Doctor Chiles his preliminary education, which was advanced by four years of study at the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College. He entered the University College of Medicine, at Richmond, Virginia, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1905. After thus receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine he was for three years engaged in practice in Virginia. He then returned to Florida, and in September, 1919, he established himself in practice at Orlando, after having received his honorable discharge from the Medical Corps of the United States Army, in which he enlisted in April, 1917, the month in which the nation became involved in the World war. In the following July he received commission as first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, his special training having been received at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, whence he was transferred to Camp Wheeler, where he was advanced to the rank of captain. In October, 1918, as a member of the One Hundred and Sixth Sanitary Train, in the Thirty-first Division, Doctor Chiles crossed the Atlantic to France, where he passed five months in active service. For four months thereafter he was stationed in England, and in the meanwhile he availed himself of doing effective post-graduate work. He finally returned to the United States, and on the 6th of August, 1919, he received his honorable discharge, after a professional military record that shall ever reflect honor upon his name. He has since been engaged in active general practice at Orlando, is known as a specially skilled and resourceful physician, and is actively affiliated with the National Association of Military Associations, the Florida State Medical society and the Orange County Medical Society. He is a stalwart advocate of the principles of the democratic party, he holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. In 1908 was recorded the marriage of Doctor Chiles and Miss IDA HOWARD, who was born and reared in Virginia. They have three children: ELIZABETH SINCLAIR, JOSEPHINE HASKELL, and SEABORN HOWARD. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/orange/bios/chiles45nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/flfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb