[FHStoday] TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY FOR NOVEMBER 18

[Nick Wynne]

TODAY IN FLORIDA HISTORY 
NOVEMBER 18   
     
1847 Henry I. Louttit, Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Divison of South
Florida, was elected the first president of the Florida Council of Churches
meeting in Jacksonville.

1861 The Florida Legislature opened its session today.  Legislators received a
request to fund the conversion of the Chattahoochee Arsenal into a military
academy of Floridians to “be trained in the art of war.”

1862 The Union gunboat Tioga arrived in Key West today, refueled and
resupplied
and put back to sea for blockade duty--all within 12 hours!

1863 The Florida Legislature today elected Benjamin J. Allen to serve as the
state’s Secretary of State.  It also elected James M. Baker as the Confederate
Senator from Florida.

1923 Alan Shephard, sometime Brevard County resident and first American in
space, was born today.