Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....Rigby, George N. July 10, 1874 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.27  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        RIGBY, GEORGE N. All the prominent and wealthy men who come to Ormond 
Beach for the winter season regard as a special friend GEORGE  N. RIGBY, 
formally a successful New York attorney who has been a permanent resident of 
Ormond since 1913, and since 1915 has had the official dignity of mayor of 
Ormond Beach. He first established a winter home in Ormond in 1898.
	Mr. Rigby was born Newark, New Jersey, July 10, 1874, son of FRANKLIN 
A. and MARY (MOCKRIDGE) RIGBY. The Rigby family has been in New Jersey for two 
hundred years, and was represented by active service at the time of the 
Revolution. FRANKLIN A. RIGBY was a manufacturing jeweler at Newark, and later 
moved to Westchester County, New York, and became traveling auditor for the 
Prudential Life Insurance Company. He was born at Newark in 1849, in 1919 moved 
to Florida, and he died at Orlando, March 24, 1922. His wife was born in Newark 
in 1849, and died in Yonkers, New York, in 1888. The Florida home of FRANKLIN 
RIGBY was Windmere (sic), near Orlando. He was a Mason, a republican and a 
Baptist.
	One of a family of two sons and three daughters, GEORGE N. RIGBY was 
educated in the Yonkers High School, took the electrical engineering course at 
Cornell University, and during his senior year was a student in the law 
department. He graduated L.L.B. from the University of New York in 1896. Mr. 
Rigby practiced as an attorney at Yonkers until 1913, and in addition to his 
extensive law business was active in New York politics. He served as alderman 
of Yonkers from 1901 to 1903 and from 1903 to 1906 was a member of the 
Legislature. During 1907–08 he served as a member of the State Commission 
appointed by Governor Higgins upon the Uniform Charters for Cities of the 
second class, and was also a member of the Condemnation Board, appointed to 
acquire land for the Catskill Aqueduct, from 1908 to 1914. He continued a 
member of that Condemnation Board for a time after moving to Florida.
	In 1897 Mr. Rigby married MAUD LAWRENCE, daughter of WILLIAM F. 
LAWRENCE and member of an old family of prominence in Westchester County of 
Revolutionary descent. Mr. and Mrs. Rigby have one son, now a student in the 
University of Virginia. Mr. Rigby is a life member and past exalted ruler of 
the Elks Lodge at Yonkers, is a member and director of the Rotary Club, is 
president of the Halifax Memorial Hospital, and a director of the Daytona 
Chamber of Commerce. As mayor he has taken a deep personal as well as an 
official interest in administering the affairs of Ormond and directing the 
expenditures, for public improvements in this famed resort, the winter home of 
many millionaires, including JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.


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