1. Jefferson Davis Milton was an American lawman in the Old West and a son of Confederate Governor of Florida John Milton.
21 Facts About Jeff Milton
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Jeff Milton was the first officer appointed to the US Immigration Service Border Patrol in 1924.
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Jeff Milton's great-great-grandfather, John Milton, was an officer in the American Revolution, the first Secretary of State of Georgia, and received electoral college votes in the first US presidential election of 1789.
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Jeff Milton's nephew was a US Senator from Florida, William Hall Milton.
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Jeff Milton was three years old on Sunday, April 7,1865, when the American Civil War ended at Appomattox.
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At about that time, his father, John Jeff Milton, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was buried in the Episcopal cemetery at Marianna.
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Recent works have investigated the event with some scholars concluding that the death was from an accident as Jeff Milton prepared for hunting.
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At age 15 or 16 Jeff Milton considered his prospects and joined his sister in Texas where he worked in her husband's mercantile stores and later as a cowboy.
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The bandits had been tipped off that the American lawmen were after them and left before Slaughter and Jeff Milton could reach the Cardenas' home.
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Jeff Milton joined the US Customs Service in 1887 and was appointed a Customs Mounted Inspector headquartered in Tucson, in the Customs Collection District of El Paso.
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Jeff Milton spent two years with Customs, riding the line from Nogales westward to the Colorado River.
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On June 21,1895, Jeff Milton who was at that time Chief of Police in El Paso, Texas, accompanied his oft partner, Deputy US Marshal George Scarborough, when Scarborough shot and killed Martin M'Rose, a notorious Texas rustler.
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Outlaw, gunman and paramour of Mrs M'Rose, John Wesley Hardin, claimed that he had paid Scarborough and Jeff Milton to kill M'Rose.
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On February 15,1900, Jeff Milton substituted on a train for another Express Agent who was sick.
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Jeff Milton shot outlaw "Three Fingered Jack" Dunlop, badly wounding him.
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Jeff Milton was seriously wounded in his left arm, fracturing it and severing an artery for which he improvised a tourniquet.
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Jeff Milton's left arm was permanently disabled and shorter than his right arm.
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Jeff Milton joined the Bureau of Immigration in 1904 as a Mounted Chinese Inspector charged with enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Jeff Milton retired to Tombstone, Arizona, and then to Tucson, Arizona, where he lived the remainder of his life.
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Louis L'Amour wrote in his book Education of a Wandering Man that he met Jeff Milton, who bought him breakfast and gave him a ride to Tucson.
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Western storyteller Louis L'Amour's autobiography, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir, says Jeff Milton gave him a ride to Doubtful Canyon in Arizona.