William Russell O'Neal (1864 – January 23, 1946) was an American lawyer and businessman who was involved in banking, insurance, real estate, was a passenger agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Orlando, Florida, owned newspapers, and wrote a newspaper column.[1] He was a trustee of Rollins College.[2] A Republican, he ran for governor, U.S. Senate, and Florida Superintendent of Public Education, losing each time to the candidate of the then dominant Democratic Party.[3]
He was born in Ohio. He married in Maine and moved to Orlando in 1886.[4]
His political campaigning in 1920 for the Republican Party after the Ocoee Riots was seen as a threat to the White Supremacy promoted by the dominant Democratic Party.[8]
In 1886, O'Neal married Mabelle Copeland in Maine. They had two daughters, Helen and Mabelle. Mrs. O'Neal died in 1910 and in 1914 O'Neal married Jessie Malory Thayer. She died in 1923.[4]
^Writer, Joy Wallace Dickinson, Sentinel Staff. "Newsmaking house saw hunk of history October 15, 2006". OrlandoSentinel.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^Cutler, Harry Gardner (April 9, 1923). "History of Florida: Past and Present, Historical and Biographical". Lewis publishing Company – via Google Books.
^Senate, United States Congress (April 9, 1931). "Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America". order of the Senate of the United States – via Google Books.
^"The Florida Historical Quarterly". Florida Historical Society. July 9, 1980 – via Google Books.
^Peace (U.S.), League to Enforce (April 10, 1917). "The League Bulletin" – via Google Books.
^Hoffmann, Carlee; Hoffman, Carlee; Strom, Claire (2014). "A Perfect Storm: The Ocoee Riot of 1920". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 93 (1): 25–43. JSTOR 43487653.
^"O'Neal, William Russell". Carey Hand Undertaker's Memoranda 1946. January 23, 1946.
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