OF TIE IM=SI3Y FAMILY


 dren, Margaret and Sarah.
 William T. Lesley was educated in the schools of Tampa,
 While he was still very young he occupied the position of
 clerk in the postoffice; later he was a clerk in the office,
 of the Seaboard railroad at Tampa. In 1897, at the age of
 twenty-three, he was appointed clerk of the criminal court of
 record of Hillsborough County by Governor '. L. Mitchell, serv-
 ing seven years. He resigned to run for sheriff in 1900. Hd
 w;as elected and took charge of the office, serving nearly foir
 years, or within a few days of the end of his term,. hen he
 died.
 (5) The fifth child of John T. and Margaret (Brown)
 L3sley is Theodore, ,ho was born in Tampa, September 4, 1873.i
 He married May Yancey, a sister of the ,ife of his brother,
 William T., November 14, 1906. They have two children, Theo-
 dore, jr., -d iMary Lowndes.
 Theodore Lesley- was reared in Tanpa and educated in its
 schools. At the ae a of telve years he as a clerk in a cigar
 store. At the age of seventeen there was committed to him the
 entire management of his father'p slaughter house near Tampa,
 and in his twenty-first year he became an inspector of customs,
 in which capacity he served two years, followed by two years
 as special deputy collector. These positions he held under
 Captain John T. Lesley, his father. After retiring from the
 customs service he became a partner with his cousin, ". Lesley
 Brown, in the livery, sale and feed business, which they con-
 ducted for several years. He is now engaged in the real
 estate business.
 (6) The sixth child of John T. and Margaret (Brown)
 Lesley is Livingston G., who was born in Tampa Angist 1, 1877.
 He .ras married June 15, 1898, to Georgia Florence Yancey, a 1
 sister of the wives of his two brothers, William T. and Theodore.
 They have three children-John Livingston, Leona and Lois.
 Livingston G. Lesley was educated in the public and pri-
 vate schools of Tampa, finishing with a course in their uston '
 Business College, now the Tampa Business College. At the age
 of eighteen he entered the customs service at Tampa under hig
 father, then collector of the port, holding various position
 for eight years. Although a Democrat, he served under the
 S administrations of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. He re-
 signed in 1902, and became bookkeeper and deputy sheriff under
 his brother, William T.Lesley, and also later under Sheriffs I
 Robert A. Jackson and Ed. Hobbs. The last eighteen months oil
 his service in the sheriff's office was as chief deputy. In
 1913 he engaged in the insurance business, which he still con
 tinues.
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