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 en3d by the enemy, which company he co-mnanded until the close
 of the nar.
 He was widely popular and respected throughout the state,
 and especially in southern Florida. He was a leader of his
 people in the strenuous struggle to redeem the state from the!
 rule of the carpetbaggers ,and scalla'ags and to restore her
 government to the hands of her mwn people, .-hich culminated
 successfully in 1876.
 In 1876 he ?was elected to represent H-iillsborough County
 in the legislature, serving t:o years. Later he wa s elected
 to the senate, serving t-!o teri.s -lso in th.t bcdy.
 In 1885 he was a member of the convention that framed
 the present constitution of thee state of Florida. In 1893 he
 was appointed clerk of the circuit court of Hillsborough County
 to fill an unexpired term_ by Hon. Henry L. "itcholl, then gover-
 nor, but resigned to accept the federal office of collector-of
 custops for the port of 'TianTa, to which he had been appointed
 by7 Preosident Cltvelnid. `e .ld the last mentioned position
 until the apaointnent adud q'alification of %is successor under
 the administration of ?resident .cK"in~l;ry.
 Captain John T. Lesley :ras' for many years extensively
 engaged in the cattle business in which he twas very successful.
 He retired from it several years before his death, turning over
 his interests in that line to his Ildest son, miory Leroy, re-
 sidins :t Kissitmee, in Osceola County. Captain John T. Lesley
 died July 13, 1913.
 John T. Lesley married ::rs. ::argaret \. Tucker, wh-ose
 n-aiden naime ;was Brown. She died in 1893. The c--ildren born to
 this marriage -:ere
 (1) Indiana Elizabeth, unmarried.
 (2) 3mory Leroy, who -ras born January 31, 1864. He
 received his education at 2ingham School, North Carolina, and
 when a very young nan ena,-ed in the cattle business with his
 father, and has continued in that -and other large industries up
 to the present time. He r~ id.s at Kissiamee, in the county of
 Csceola, -':here he has occupied important official positions.
 He married, September 17, 1896, Jennie, the youngest
 daughter of Colonel Z. 0. Morgan, of Bassengor, in the same
 Gr.unty. They have five children--Enory L., jr., Mary Virginia,
 Geraldine Slizabeth, John Taliaferro and India Childs.
 (3) The third child of John T. and Margaret (Brown) Les-
 ley is John James, unmarried.
 (4) The fourth was William Taliaferro, who was born in
 Tampa June 30, 1870, and died December 7, 1904. He was married
 December 7, 1898, to Sarah R. Yancey, a daughter of Judge Dalton
 H. Yancey, and a granddaughter of Hon. William L. Yancey, the
 celebrated atateman' and oratg;m Qf Alabima They ~re t-wo chil-
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