Mahlon Gore was born in Climax, Michigan in 1837. He left home and went to work as a printer when he was fifteen years old. After eight years on his own, he married his 19 year old childhood sweetheart, Josephine Dawley, in the autumn of 1860. Soon after, the southern states succeeded from the United States, and Mahlon decided he would try soldiering. The Second Michigan infantry was recruited and enlisted for federal duty under the first proclamation of President Lincoln on April 14, 1861, calling for 75,000 volunteers of the organized militia of the states to serve for a three-month service. From the following militia companies, the regiment was formed and accepted into federal service as a three-month regiment. Whereupon the companies were formed under that order but, under subsequent instruction from the war department, it was re-organized and re-enlisted as a three-year regiment, allowing those who so desired to withdraw from federal service. After completing his three-months of service in the Second Michigan Infantry, Mahlon Gore decided not to re-enlist, but instead moved to Iowa.
He homesteaded in Iowa and later he and his first wife were the first homesteaders in the Dakota Territory. While the Gore's were in the Dakota Territory, The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on January 1, 1863. The printing office, land office and two or three small houses, one of which Gore was staying in, were located on the bluff on the south end of the town of Vermillion.
The land officers, J. M. Allen and Major Wilkinson slept in their offices, but took their meals with Gore at his house. Gore worked until approximately 11:30 P.M. at the printing office where his newspaper was located. On his way home, he noticed a light in the land office and stopped in. He informed Wilkinson that he would return at first light to file his homestead application, in order to avoid the rush later in the day. Since it was nearly midnight, Wilkinson suggested that he wait a few minutes and the application could be filed before he went home. Gore agreed, and within five minutes past midnight the application was complete, and he proceeded home with the receipt in his pocket. It is believed that Gore made the first filing in Dakota Territory under the new Homestead Act. By 1880, his health was failing and so a move to Orlando and its healthy climate was made.
After Mahlon Gore moved to Orlando He purchased the Orange County Reporter. When Gore purchased the Reporter it was only five years old, was the only paper in Orlando and was a two page weekly. In June the paper came out with Gore’s name on the masthead as editor & proprietor. Gore built up the paper’s circulation, and took young men into the shop to teach them the printing trade. He successfully ran it for over a decade. Under Gore's able and energetic management, the paper came to have a great influence among the people of the county, and to attract a large number of immigrants from other states.
In the winter of 1884 a terrible fire broke out in the business district of Orlando. Starting in Delaney’s Grocery at 5 am, it quickly spread through the pine-frame buildings in one of the boomtown’s most densely-packed blocks. By the time the alarm was sounded, every store on the block was involved. Orlando had no fire department, but its citizens acted quickly and prevented the spread of the fire by demolishing several buildings with dynamite. When the fire was over, 15 businesses were completely razed including Delaney’s Grocery and the offices of the Reporter. Like nearly all of the owners, James Delaney was insured, but Mahlon Gore, the owner and publisher of the Reporter was not.
Now, because of the fire, Gore was nearly ruined. But he was not the kind of person to give up. Within 5 days, he had arranged for the Sanford Journal to print a special 'fire edition' of his Reporter, and when he returned to Orlando, the townspeople met him at the rail depot. They presented him with a collection of $1200 - as well as $300 in new subscriptions. A few weeks later, when he returned from Cincinnati with a new press, his friends walked him to the new home of the Reporter - for they had also given him a building on Orange Avenue. The Reporter would go on to be a success, eventually becoming one of the papers that grew into the Orlando Sentinel.
After selling the Reporter, he went into the real estate business working with former Florida governor Sinclair. During the later part of his life, he was also interested in citrus culture. He had a number of orange groves all located on Lake Gatlin. He developed a subdivision and built the first house on a new street in south Orlando that became known as Gore Avenue. In 1906, Gore sold the Gore Street house and build Sioux Villa on Lake Lucerne.
Gore was elected to the Orlando city council and during his first term it was he who introduced the ordinance under which Orlando's famous oaks were planted. He was also elected mayor of Orlando for 3 successive terms and served as the Orlando Board of Trade's first secretary. In 1912, he would help found the First Unitarian Church of Orlando along with his second wife, Caroline. Mahlon Gore was a man with fortitude and determination.
On February 4 1916, Gore was honored on his 79th birthday with a motorcade of city officials and old friends arriving at his home Sioux Villa. He was presented with a loving cup engraved by T. H. Evans, with the inscription: From his friends and neighbors to Mahlon Gore. 79 years of age, February 4, 1916. In recognition of his value as a citizen and his worth as a friend and neighbor.
In the summer of 1916. The Orlando city council adopted a suitable resolution to honor one of Orlando's leading citizens. On June 27, it was resolved that "in the death of the Honorable Mahlon Gore, Mayor of the city of Orlando during the years 1894 to 1896, the city has lost one of its respected and beloved citizens" and that the City Hall and Fire Department be draped in mourning for 30 days."
He homesteaded in Iowa and later he and his first wife were the first homesteaders in the Dakota Territory. While the Gore's were in the Dakota Territory, The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on January 1, 1863. The printing office, land office and two or three small houses, one of which Gore was staying in, were located on the bluff on the south end of the town of Vermillion.
The land officers, J. M. Allen and Major Wilkinson slept in their offices, but took their meals with Gore at his house. Gore worked until approximately 11:30 P.M. at the printing office where his newspaper was located. On his way home, he noticed a light in the land office and stopped in. He informed Wilkinson that he would return at first light to file his homestead application, in order to avoid the rush later in the day. Since it was nearly midnight, Wilkinson suggested that he wait a few minutes and the application could be filed before he went home. Gore agreed, and within five minutes past midnight the application was complete, and he proceeded home with the receipt in his pocket. It is believed that Gore made the first filing in Dakota Territory under the new Homestead Act. By 1880, his health was failing and so a move to Orlando and its healthy climate was made.
After Mahlon Gore moved to Orlando He purchased the Orange County Reporter. When Gore purchased the Reporter it was only five years old, was the only paper in Orlando and was a two page weekly. In June the paper came out with Gore’s name on the masthead as editor & proprietor. Gore built up the paper’s circulation, and took young men into the shop to teach them the printing trade. He successfully ran it for over a decade. Under Gore's able and energetic management, the paper came to have a great influence among the people of the county, and to attract a large number of immigrants from other states.
In the winter of 1884 a terrible fire broke out in the business district of Orlando. Starting in Delaney’s Grocery at 5 am, it quickly spread through the pine-frame buildings in one of the boomtown’s most densely-packed blocks. By the time the alarm was sounded, every store on the block was involved. Orlando had no fire department, but its citizens acted quickly and prevented the spread of the fire by demolishing several buildings with dynamite. When the fire was over, 15 businesses were completely razed including Delaney’s Grocery and the offices of the Reporter. Like nearly all of the owners, James Delaney was insured, but Mahlon Gore, the owner and publisher of the Reporter was not.
Now, because of the fire, Gore was nearly ruined. But he was not the kind of person to give up. Within 5 days, he had arranged for the Sanford Journal to print a special 'fire edition' of his Reporter, and when he returned to Orlando, the townspeople met him at the rail depot. They presented him with a collection of $1200 - as well as $300 in new subscriptions. A few weeks later, when he returned from Cincinnati with a new press, his friends walked him to the new home of the Reporter - for they had also given him a building on Orange Avenue. The Reporter would go on to be a success, eventually becoming one of the papers that grew into the Orlando Sentinel.
After selling the Reporter, he went into the real estate business working with former Florida governor Sinclair. During the later part of his life, he was also interested in citrus culture. He had a number of orange groves all located on Lake Gatlin. He developed a subdivision and built the first house on a new street in south Orlando that became known as Gore Avenue. In 1906, Gore sold the Gore Street house and build Sioux Villa on Lake Lucerne.
Gore was elected to the Orlando city council and during his first term it was he who introduced the ordinance under which Orlando's famous oaks were planted. He was also elected mayor of Orlando for 3 successive terms and served as the Orlando Board of Trade's first secretary. In 1912, he would help found the First Unitarian Church of Orlando along with his second wife, Caroline. Mahlon Gore was a man with fortitude and determination.
On February 4 1916, Gore was honored on his 79th birthday with a motorcade of city officials and old friends arriving at his home Sioux Villa. He was presented with a loving cup engraved by T. H. Evans, with the inscription: From his friends and neighbors to Mahlon Gore. 79 years of age, February 4, 1916. In recognition of his value as a citizen and his worth as a friend and neighbor.
In the summer of 1916. The Orlando city council adopted a suitable resolution to honor one of Orlando's leading citizens. On June 27, it was resolved that "in the death of the Honorable Mahlon Gore, Mayor of the city of Orlando during the years 1894 to 1896, the city has lost one of its respected and beloved citizens" and that the City Hall and Fire Department be draped in mourning for 30 days."
Mahlon Gore was born in Climax, Michigan in 1837. He left home and went to work as a printer when he was fifteen years old. After eight years on his own, he married his 19 year old childhood sweetheart, Josephine Dawley, in the autumn of 1860. Soon after, the southern states succeeded from the United States, and Mahlon decided he would try soldiering. The Second Michigan infantry was recruited and enlisted for federal duty under the first proclamation of President Lincoln on April 14, 1861, calling for 75,000 volunteers of the organized militia of the states to serve for a three-month service. From the following militia companies, the regiment was formed and accepted into federal service as a three-month regiment. Whereupon the companies were formed under that order but, under subsequent instruction from the war department, it was re-organized and re-enlisted as a three-year regiment, allowing those who so desired to withdraw from federal service. After completing his three-months of service in the Second Michigan Infantry, Mahlon Gore decided not to re-enlist, but instead moved to Iowa.
He homesteaded in Iowa and later he and his first wife were the first homesteaders in the Dakota Territory. While the Gore's were in the Dakota Territory, The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on January 1, 1863. The printing office, land office and two or three small houses, one of which Gore was staying in, were located on the bluff on the south end of the town of Vermillion.
The land officers, J. M. Allen and Major Wilkinson slept in their offices, but took their meals with Gore at his house. Gore worked until approximately 11:30 P.M. at the printing office where his newspaper was located. On his way home, he noticed a light in the land office and stopped in. He informed Wilkinson that he would return at first light to file his homestead application, in order to avoid the rush later in the day. Since it was nearly midnight, Wilkinson suggested that he wait a few minutes and the application could be filed before he went home. Gore agreed, and within five minutes past midnight the application was complete, and he proceeded home with the receipt in his pocket. It is believed that Gore made the first filing in Dakota Territory under the new Homestead Act. By 1880, his health was failing and so a move to Orlando and its healthy climate was made.
After Mahlon Gore moved to Orlando He purchased the Orange County Reporter. When Gore purchased the Reporter it was only five years old, was the only paper in Orlando and was a two page weekly. In June the paper came out with Gore’s name on the masthead as editor & proprietor. Gore built up the paper’s circulation, and took young men into the shop to teach them the printing trade. He successfully ran it for over a decade. Under Gore's able and energetic management, the paper came to have a great influence among the people of the county, and to attract a large number of immigrants from other states.
In the winter of 1884 a terrible fire broke out in the business district of Orlando. Starting in Delaney’s Grocery at 5 am, it quickly spread through the pine-frame buildings in one of the boomtown’s most densely-packed blocks. By the time the alarm was sounded, every store on the block was involved. Orlando had no fire department, but its citizens acted quickly and prevented the spread of the fire by demolishing several buildings with dynamite. When the fire was over, 15 businesses were completely razed including Delaney’s Grocery and the offices of the Reporter. Like nearly all of the owners, James Delaney was insured, but Mahlon Gore, the owner and publisher of the Reporter was not.
Now, because of the fire, Gore was nearly ruined. But he was not the kind of person to give up. Within 5 days, he had arranged for the Sanford Journal to print a special 'fire edition' of his Reporter, and when he returned to Orlando, the townspeople met him at the rail depot. They presented him with a collection of $1200 - as well as $300 in new subscriptions. A few weeks later, when he returned from Cincinnati with a new press, his friends walked him to the new home of the Reporter - for they had also given him a building on Orange Avenue. The Reporter would go on to be a success, eventually becoming one of the papers that grew into the Orlando Sentinel.
After selling the Reporter, he went into the real estate business working with former Florida governor Sinclair. During the later part of his life, he was also interested in citrus culture. He had a number of orange groves all located on Lake Gatlin. He developed a subdivision and built the first house on a new street in south Orlando that became known as Gore Avenue. In 1906, Gore sold the Gore Street house and build Sioux Villa on Lake Lucerne.
Gore was elected to the Orlando city council and during his first term it was he who introduced the ordinance under which Orlando's famous oaks were planted. He was also elected mayor of Orlando for 3 successive terms and served as the Orlando Board of Trade's first secretary. In 1912, he would help found the First Unitarian Church of Orlando along with his second wife, Caroline. Mahlon Gore was a man with fortitude and determination.
On February 4 1916, Gore was honored on his 79th birthday with a motorcade of city officials and old friends arriving at his home Sioux Villa. He was presented with a loving cup engraved by T. H. Evans, with the inscription: From his friends and neighbors to Mahlon Gore. 79 years of age, February 4, 1916. In recognition of his value as a citizen and his worth as a friend and neighbor.
In the summer of 1916. The Orlando city council adopted a suitable resolution to honor one of Orlando's leading citizens. On June 27, it was resolved that "in the death of the Honorable Mahlon Gore, Mayor of the city of Orlando during the years 1894 to 1896, the city has lost one of its respected and beloved citizens" and that the City Hall and Fire Department be draped in mourning for 30 days."
He homesteaded in Iowa and later he and his first wife were the first homesteaders in the Dakota Territory. While the Gore's were in the Dakota Territory, The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on January 1, 1863. The printing office, land office and two or three small houses, one of which Gore was staying in, were located on the bluff on the south end of the town of Vermillion.
The land officers, J. M. Allen and Major Wilkinson slept in their offices, but took their meals with Gore at his house. Gore worked until approximately 11:30 P.M. at the printing office where his newspaper was located. On his way home, he noticed a light in the land office and stopped in. He informed Wilkinson that he would return at first light to file his homestead application, in order to avoid the rush later in the day. Since it was nearly midnight, Wilkinson suggested that he wait a few minutes and the application could be filed before he went home. Gore agreed, and within five minutes past midnight the application was complete, and he proceeded home with the receipt in his pocket. It is believed that Gore made the first filing in Dakota Territory under the new Homestead Act. By 1880, his health was failing and so a move to Orlando and its healthy climate was made.
After Mahlon Gore moved to Orlando He purchased the Orange County Reporter. When Gore purchased the Reporter it was only five years old, was the only paper in Orlando and was a two page weekly. In June the paper came out with Gore’s name on the masthead as editor & proprietor. Gore built up the paper’s circulation, and took young men into the shop to teach them the printing trade. He successfully ran it for over a decade. Under Gore's able and energetic management, the paper came to have a great influence among the people of the county, and to attract a large number of immigrants from other states.
In the winter of 1884 a terrible fire broke out in the business district of Orlando. Starting in Delaney’s Grocery at 5 am, it quickly spread through the pine-frame buildings in one of the boomtown’s most densely-packed blocks. By the time the alarm was sounded, every store on the block was involved. Orlando had no fire department, but its citizens acted quickly and prevented the spread of the fire by demolishing several buildings with dynamite. When the fire was over, 15 businesses were completely razed including Delaney’s Grocery and the offices of the Reporter. Like nearly all of the owners, James Delaney was insured, but Mahlon Gore, the owner and publisher of the Reporter was not.
Now, because of the fire, Gore was nearly ruined. But he was not the kind of person to give up. Within 5 days, he had arranged for the Sanford Journal to print a special 'fire edition' of his Reporter, and when he returned to Orlando, the townspeople met him at the rail depot. They presented him with a collection of $1200 - as well as $300 in new subscriptions. A few weeks later, when he returned from Cincinnati with a new press, his friends walked him to the new home of the Reporter - for they had also given him a building on Orange Avenue. The Reporter would go on to be a success, eventually becoming one of the papers that grew into the Orlando Sentinel.
After selling the Reporter, he went into the real estate business working with former Florida governor Sinclair. During the later part of his life, he was also interested in citrus culture. He had a number of orange groves all located on Lake Gatlin. He developed a subdivision and built the first house on a new street in south Orlando that became known as Gore Avenue. In 1906, Gore sold the Gore Street house and build Sioux Villa on Lake Lucerne.
Gore was elected to the Orlando city council and during his first term it was he who introduced the ordinance under which Orlando's famous oaks were planted. He was also elected mayor of Orlando for 3 successive terms and served as the Orlando Board of Trade's first secretary. In 1912, he would help found the First Unitarian Church of Orlando along with his second wife, Caroline. Mahlon Gore was a man with fortitude and determination.
On February 4 1916, Gore was honored on his 79th birthday with a motorcade of city officials and old friends arriving at his home Sioux Villa. He was presented with a loving cup engraved by T. H. Evans, with the inscription: From his friends and neighbors to Mahlon Gore. 79 years of age, February 4, 1916. In recognition of his value as a citizen and his worth as a friend and neighbor.
In the summer of 1916. The Orlando city council adopted a suitable resolution to honor one of Orlando's leading citizens. On June 27, it was resolved that "in the death of the Honorable Mahlon Gore, Mayor of the city of Orlando during the years 1894 to 1896, the city has lost one of its respected and beloved citizens" and that the City Hall and Fire Department be draped in mourning for 30 days."
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