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W.B. Cahoon Chief of Police
W. B. Cahoon was born in Marion, South Carolina and as a young boy moved to Melrose, Florida with his family. Cahoon enlisted in the First Florida Regiment and served in the Spanish-American war. Following the war Cahoon moved to Jacksonville, Florida where he became a patrol officer with the Jacksonville Police Department in 1901. Cahoon was promoted to detective in 1904 and later to chief of the Jacksonville Detective Bureau in 1914 where he stayed until 1922 when he transferred back to the Jacksonville Police Department as Assistant Chief of Police. In 1925 he resigned to become Sheriff of Duval County for a term of 4 years. On October 31, 1936 Cahoon became chief of Police for the Gainesville Police Department The department had grown to 10 Officers. Cahoon was married with four children. Cahoon died in October of 1965 at the age of 94 and was buried in Melrose, Florida. In 1935, under Chief W.B. Cahoon, the Gainesville Police Department built its first two-way radio transmitter.
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