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  • Today in Florida History November 12, David W. Mizell was born at "Alligator Settlement" (near Lake City). He moved to Orange County with his family in 1858. Mizell fought in the Third Seminole War and the Civil War, attaining the rank of first corporal before receiving a medical discharge in 1863 for cholera (or pneumonia). Appointed as the 8th sheriff of Orange County by Governor Harrison Reed on September 8, 1868. He was shot and...Read more

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