Pasco County FlArchives Biographies.....Dayton, Orville L. July 29, 1878 - 
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Source: he Lewis Publishing Co., Vol. II   pg. 345  1923
Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present

DAYTON, ORVILLE LIMBAUGH.  The progressive spirit and the activities combining 
for the general welfare and development of Dade City are largely centered in 
the leadership of ORVILLE LIMBAUGH DAYTON, attorney, county judge and for over 
twenty years a man of affairs in this section of the state.
	Mr. DAYTON has lived in Florida since boyhood, and was born on a ranch 
at Gainesville, Texas, July 29, 1878, son of Dr. AARON OGDEN and MARY 
(SHEPPARD) DAYTON.  His parents were natives of Illinois, his father of 
Hancock and his mother of Adams County, and both are now deceased.  His father 
graduated in medicine from the University of Iowa, and in 1870 moved to 
northern Texas, practiced medicine and developed a large cattle ranch at 
Gainesville.  In 1893, he moved to what is now Pasco County, Florida, and 
acquired some grove interests.  He suffered reverses in the freeze of 1895, 
but continued to have faith in Florida and remained one of the substantial 
citizens of Pasco County until his death.
	Six in a family of seven children, Judge DAYTON attended public 
schools in Texas and in Florida, Academy at Hartwell, Georgia, and took up the 
study of law with his brother GEORGE W. DAYTON.  After his admission to the 
bar he practiced as a member of the firm Dayton & Dayton, and for a number of 
years has made a specialty of land title law, with a large practice in all the 
courts.
	Judge DAYTON in 1900, was elected county judge of Pasco County, the 
youngest man ever to hold that office.  In 1904 he was chosen clerk of the 
Circuit Court, in 1908 was elected county prosecuting attorney, and in 1914 
was again elected County judge, without opposition, and was chosen for another 
term unopposed in 1920.  Judge DAYTON has also been mayor of Dade City, and 
was head of the city government when the ice plant, the sewage system and 
waterworks were installed.  During the war he was chairman of the Liberty Loan 
drives, the war savings stamps drive, organized and became captain of Company 
A, of the Home Guards, and subsequently was promoted major of the Pasco County 
Home Guards.  He also served on the legal advisory board and was a four minute 
speaker.  Judge DAYTON is a deacon in the Baptist Church and a teacher in the 
Sunday School and is a past master of Dade City Lodge No. 48, A. F. and A. M., 
is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, Counsel and Commandery at Plant City 
and Egypt Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Tampa.
	At Dade City in 1902 he married ELLA M. GOSHORN, a native of 
Arkansas.  Her father was a physician in Arkansas and Tennessee, and for a 
short time lived in Live Oak, Florida.  Mrs. DAYTON is an active member of the 
Eastern Star, the Baptist Church and the social clubs of Dade City.  They have 
two children, ORVILLE LIMBAUGH and GEORGE CHEEK.


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