John P. Wall

John Perry Wall (September 1836 – April 19, 1895) was an American physician, and mayor of Tampa, Florida from 1878 to 1880.

[2] In 1859 he was a surgeon at Chimborazo Hospital in Virginia, serving Confederate soldiers from Florida during the American Civil War.

On a visit to Brooksville, Florida in 1862, he married Pressie Eubanks, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy planter.

In 1871, he contracted yellow fever aboard the steamer H. M. Cool from Cedar Key while treating a cabin boy.

He helped lead construction of the railroad from northeastern Florida to Tampa, the settlement of Vicente Martinez Ybor and a large colony of Cuban and Spanish cigar makers in what is now part of Ybor City, and helped establish the phosphate industry.

John P. Wall gravesite at Oaklawn Cemetery in downtown Tampa