Editing David Levy Yulee (section)

==Early life and education==
He was born David Levy in [[Charlotte Amalie, United States Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]], on the island of [[Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]]. His father was [[Moses Elias Levy]], a [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi Jewish]] businessman from [[Morocco]] who made a fortune in [[lumber]] in the British colony.<ref name=stone>{{Cite book |last=Stone |first=Kurt F. |title=The Jews of Capitol Hill: A Compendium of Jewish Congressional Members |year=2001 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&pg=PA4 |page=4 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9-780-8108-7738-2}}</ref><ref>Roger Moore, Ron Kurtz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wek0d8Wm3KcC ''Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach''], 2001, page 1873</ref> His mother, Hannah Abendanone,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1886-controversy-beset-senator-dies-1.5347977|title = 1886: Controversy-beset first Jewish U.S. Senator dies| newspaper=Haaretz }}</ref> was also Sephardi; her ancestors [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|were expelled from Spain]] to the [[Netherlands]] and [[England]]. His grandfather Eliyahu ha-Levy ibn-Yuli served as an undersecretary to Sultan [[Mohammed ben Abdallah]] while his paternal grandmother Rachel was from [[Tangiers]] and was said to have spoken fluent [[Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref name=stone/> Some later migrated to the Caribbean as English colonists during the British occupation of the [[Danish West Indies]] (now the [[United States Virgin Islands]]). Moses Levy was a first cousin and business partner of Phillip Benjamin, who was the father of [[Judah P. Benjamin]], the future Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America.<ref>''Mosaic: Jewish Life in Florida'' (Coral Gables, FL: MOSAIC, Inc., 1991): 9</ref>

After the family immigrated to the United States in the early 1820s, Moses Levy bought {{convert|50000|acre|km2}} of land near [[Jacksonville, Florida|present-day Jacksonville]], [[Florida Territory]]. {{citation needed span|Despite his wealth as a trader, his father feared it would lead to sin.|date=August 2023}} He wanted to establish a "New [[Jerusalem]]" for Jewish settlers. The parents sent their son to a boy's academy and college in [[Norfolk, Virginia]].  Levy studied law with [[Robert R. Reid]] in [[St. Augustine, Florida|St. Augustine]], was admitted to the bar in 1832, and started a law practice in St. Augustine.<ref name=jvl /><ref name="jmof.fiu.edu">[http://jmof.fiu.edu/ Retrieved from the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum of Florida]</ref><ref name="archive"/>
[[File:Hon. David L. Yulee, Florida - NARA - 528542.jpg|right|thumb|David L. Yulee, photograph by [[Mathew Brady]]]]