Florida, 1513-1913, past and future

1513-1913

PAST,

PRESENT
AND

FUTURE

FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF WARS AND
PEACE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

By GEORGE M. CHAPIN
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
1914

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BIOGRAPHICAL

GOVERNOR

ANSON

P. K.

AFFORD.

in San Francisco, with

which

he was connected

I86o until 1862.

He was a natural born

pioneer and,

of Governor

Anson

P. K. Safford

is removing to Nevada,

became

one of the best known

honored not alone in

one locality but in many.

and most influential citizens in Humboldt

and adja-

life work has not ceased its fruition

nor will it do

cent counties.

was called

to public

so as long

as civilization endures in America,

for he

and served

as mining recorder

and also as county re-

set in motion the

wheels

progress

which will roll

corder, while the business of mining

also occupied

on and on through all time.

He

has justly been called

much

of his attention.

He was ready to meet pioneer

the "father of the public school

system of

Arizona,"

conditions

and seemed

equal to any emergency.

When

and other
honor and

sections of the country have reason to

praise

him for the equally valuable work

difficulties occurred with the Indians, whose hostility
was manifest in thieving and murder, he organized and

in their behalf.

His last days were spent

at Tarpon

led armed bodies of

citizens

to pursue and punish

Springs, Florida, where his widow, Mrs. Soledad B.
Parken, still resides, occupying the home erected by
Governor Safford.

them.

Although he endured

great hardships

on some

of these expeditions he never complained, placing duty
before any thought of personal comfort. He contin-

At Hyde Park,

ruary,

Vermont on the 14th of Feb-

Governor

Safford

was born and

ued a resident of Humboldt

when he

went abroad,

county, Nevada, until
spending two years in

therefore, but eight years of
1838 removed to Crete, Illinm

age when the family in
is. His educational op-

Europe, partly for the benefit of his health and partly

increase

his store of information concerning

human

portunities were such as only the common schools

affairs and the world's resources.

that day afforded.

upon the
financial

home fan
conditions

Moreover, his services
m, for the family was

S

were needed
in straitened

and could not employ help,

Following his return

President
States su

to his native

Johnson appointed Mr.

rveyor

general for

Nevada

Sa

land in 1867
afford United

and from

Presi-

that through the
to perform such

mitted.

spring and summer months he had
tasks as his age and strength per-

While his opportunity of attending school

dent Grant came the appointment as governor of Ari-

zona in 1869.

accept

He resigned

the latter,,and

the former

so creditable

position

and satisfactory

was somewhat limited, he

of books, of
an observing

nature
eye an

lure of the gold fields

journey across,
the mountain

was always

s a

and of mankind and
d retentive memory.

was upon

s the long hot
passes to the

in mining for about eight

him and 1

stretches of

close student
I he possessed

In 185o
ie made

sand and over

Pacific coast, where he en-

years,

spending most

was his

official

service in that position

Grant reappointed him in
ernor of the territory for
to seek a third term. Ni

haps was
results.
written:

eight y
3 other

that President

He continued as gov-
ears and then refused

epoch of his life

fraught with so many deeds fruitful of great

In this connection one

of his biographers

of that time in Nevada

county.

However, unlike

"He found the territory almost in a state of anarchy.

many
search

others,

he did not devote his time to

for the precious metal but,

a frenzied

recognizing

Many officers refused to obey the laws.

taxes

was resisted by

some.

payment

Outlaws were coming

duties and obligations of

citizenship,

and helpful part in framing the

the pro
native

)gress

of the

state.

affairs

His fellow

took an active
and promoting

citizens,

appre-

of his ability, elected him to the legislature

in 1856 and again in

After his retirement from

that office he turned his attention to commercial affairs

from Sonora and robbing and murdering settlers along

the border and

Apache

as far north

Indians were atrocious

murders and the military authority

as the Gila

river.

in their thefts and
ies were nearly use-

less. The commanding officer and many subordinates

were not in sympathy with the people.

Such eminent

'5-c,

name

from

E

o

FLORIDA

generals as Sherman and Sheridan regarded the terri-
tory about worthless and only fit for Indians. There
was no public-school system in operation and but one
public school (at Prescott) in the whole territory,
with nearly all the children of Catholic parents under
the power of priests hostile to free public schools.
There was not a railroad on the east nearer than
Kansas and the Overland had just been completed to
California. Arizona was in a most univiting condi-

tion. Governor Safford realized the full
situation-of the work before him. With
bravery and an unflinching purpose to
out of chaos, to give the people protection
a system of public schools, he went to

force of the
intelligence,
bring order
, to establish
work. The

previous legislature was held by many to be unlaw-
fully convened, hence the laws were only partially
obeyed and the very first thing to be done was to
procure an act of congress authorizing the calling of
an election for a legislature and to confer upon the
governor large powers until it could meet and enact
laws; As commander of the military department of
Arizona, General Stoneman was inefficient and un-
friendly to the citizens. Another commander was
necessary. To help obtain the required legislation
and secure a new military commander, the governor,
at his own expense, and on borrowed money, spent the
winter of 1870-71 in Washington. Fortunately Hon.
R. C. McCormick was delegate. Hie stood high with
the administration and with leading members of both
houses of congress and he cordially and efficiently
carried the necessary laws through congress and in
every way helped to strengthen the governor's hands
and together they induced President Grant to super-
sede General Stoneman with General Crook. The
governor returned to the territory in April. 1871, and,
with a zeal rarely equaled, began work on all lines;
and in his eight years as governor rid the territory
of Sonora of outlaws and secured the passage and

thorough

enforcement

of effective

laws--especially

revenue and public-school laws. To work more effec-
tively with the native people he learned to speak Span-
ish. He personally visited from time to time nearly
every family in the territory and made them feel that
his highest ambition was to give them security in
person and property and good schools for their chil-
dren. As a rule each legislature passed the laws he
recommended. When not engaged in executive duties
in his office he was leading prospecting parties into
the mining regions, armed parties after hostile Indians,
traveling from county to county, giving cheerful words
to the struggling pioneers in stock-raising, farming
and mining. In this way he traveled thousands and
thousands of miles at his own expense, often without
protection other than his shotgun. He enjoyed par-
taking of the scanty fare of the settlers in their cabins.

They never suggested any act for their benefit that he
did not promptly do or try to do. While a strong
partisan in national affairs, he was not in his admin-
istration of territorial laws. He appointed men for
their fitness, with little regard to their political stand-
ing. Narrow-minded and selfish men did not always
approve of his actions. His convictions of right and
wrong, especially in all matters affecting the public,
were so strong that more than one unfaithful officer
felt his righteous wrath and power. He always tried
to conciliate so long as the public interests did not
thereby suffer; but honesty and efficiency he would
never sacrifice to conciliate anybody. His crowning
achievement as governor of Arizona was the system
of public schools he established, and perhaps there is
not a case on record where a single officer led in every
step from no schools at all to a thoroughly efficient
system by which every neighborhood, even with few
children, was provided with a school supported by
public funds. He met and overcame obstacles that
seemed insurmountable to even zealous friends of
public education. This part of his work in Arizona
should of itself entitle him to the everlasting gratitude
of the people. His personal work and sacrifices of
time and means to accomplish this crowning work of
his is not fully known to anybody, for they were done
at all times, day and night, and under almost all cir-
cumstances. It is true he had the support of the legis-
latures, but a less determined officer in this regard
would not have secured it. He believed in education
in the public schools as the best foundation for hon-
orable success in life. Governor Safford had a broad
and comprehensive mind. In proportion as the people
were prosperous and happy he was buoyant and con-
tent. Perhaps no man ever lived who more enjoyed
promoting the public welfare and the welfare of worthy
individuals than he. When there were fresh de-
velopments of minerals reported he lost no time in
personally going upon the ground to verify fields; he
encountered hostile Indians and several times helped
carry wounded companions for many miles over rough
and dangerous roads and always cheered them up
under the saddest conditions. He was a pioneer by
nature. His personal requirements were few and sim-
ple and his life abstemious. Life to him was useful
activity. He was among the first to introduce fine
sheep and other animals and, though he lost money
in this way, he never regretted it because it set an
example which was followed. So unselfish and liberal
was he as governor that at the end of his term of
eight years he had little more than a pair of mules
and a buckboard in the way of wealth. He was not
very rugged and he saw that provision must be made
for sickness and age and that he must concentrate his

efforts to

make some money.

Without going

into de-

FLORIDA

tails he w
tal in the

as instrumental in introducing the
noted Tombstone mines, and after

first capi-
a year or

two of work in this connection, realized a competency,
though not wealth as that word is now understood.
He helped establish a bank at Tucson, built business
blocks in Tombstone and did many other acts that
proved his faith in and attachment to the territory,
which were strong to the day of his death."
After leaving Arizona, Mr. Safford was for two
years a resident of Philadelphia and New York, dur-

ing which time he became
the purchase of a large tra
removed to that state. He
active in the upbuilding o
was again work of purel
found there practically a fc
lishment and development ol
ally of his time and strength
health became undermined
death. He erected the secoi

pon Springs in 1885.
built in the bungalow s
ments have since been
attractive residences o
Governor Safford
vived by a daughter
who is a graduate of
teacher of Boston. I

Safford married Miss
Mexico and of Spanis
celebrated in Arizona.

It waa
tyle, a
made,

interested with

others

ct of land in Florida and
was thereafter especially
f Tarpon Springs, which
y pioneer character. He
wrest and began the estab-
F the town, giving so liber-
h to the enterprise that his
, probably hastening his
nd dwelling house at Tar-
s a typical southern home,
nd additions and improve-
constituting it one of the

this section of Florida.
as twice married and is sur-
f his first union, Marguerita,
Smith College and is now a
or his second wife Governor
Soledad Bonillas, a native of
h descent, the wedding being
After four -and a half years

of widowhood Mrs. Safford married W. W. Parken,
a native of England, who was a musician by profes-
sion and passed away in July, 1903. Mrs. Parken has
been a most active and valued member of the com-
munity which constitutes the town of Tarpon Springs,
whither she came with her first husband in 1883.
Here she has resided continuously since. She took an
active part in building the first schoolhouse in 1885-
86 and has been largely and helpfully interested int
educational affairs for a number of years. For ten
years she was president of the Women's Town Im-
provement Association, the main efforts of which
were directed along the line of improving sanitary
conditions and beautifying parks and. lighting the
streets with oil lamps until the first street lamps were
replaced by electric lights. The association raised the
money to secure the electric lights and maintain them
for a number of years. Tn more recent years Mrs.
Parken has devoted her efforts to the building of the
Catholic chapel at Tarpon Springs.
It was in December, i891, that Governor Safford
passed away. Those who knew him intimately bear
testimony to his liberality, unostentatious charity and
practical kin dn ess s'n.4nn ,i h h

-..-%J, Cay ng1

t at e aimed to aid so as

to put the beneficiaries in ways to self-support or in
more advantageous situations for independence.l His
religion was summed up in doing right and in being
useful and helpful among his fellowmen. In his fu-
neral oration the Rev. H. D. L. Webster, of the Uni-
versalist church of Tarpon Springs, said:
"The governor was pure and correct in his morals,
his integrity was beyond question and his benevolence
and charity matters of public notice and admiration.
Those who have known the man best looked upon him
as a large-brained, public-spirited and most valuable
citizen, a natural leader of men, wise in counsel and
true and steadfast in his friendship. We look upon
him as a master of destiny, as a conqueror of great
difficulties, as a man born to succeed. His loss, as to
the affairs of our town and the entire gulf coast, is
almost irreparable."
The Pioneer Society of Arizona in a memorial to
Governor Safford said:
"It is hard to realize that our brother pioneer is
dead. Seldom has a death occurred that so shocked
our people or caused a sympathetic tear to start from
so many eyes.
"Our archives contain a record of his advent into
the territory in I869. He reached Tucson on the
2oth of July and at once entered upon his duties as
governor. He found public affairs in a chaotic con-
dition and practically without laws. There was a
territorial debt of twenty-six thousand dollars and no
funds in the treasury; the Apache Indians were depre-
dating and outlaws were murdering and pillaging along
the boundary line of Mexico. Prompt and decisive
action was demanded and Governor Safford was equal
to the emergency. He went to Washington and se-
cured congressional action legalizing the acts of the
previous legislature and also giving him the authority
to convene the legislature in extra session and con-
ferring extraordinary powers upon him for a limited
time. This arbitrary power was exercised so mildly
and judiciously that but few people in the territory
knew of its existence. Gradually but surely the con-
ditions were changed and complete order and harmony
were restored; the treasury was provided with funds
for all necessary expenses; the public debt was ex-
tinguished and a handsome surplus was on hand when
he retired from office.
"The crowning glory of his services to the people
of Arizona was, however, his successful efforts in the
establishment of the public-school system of which
Arizona is justly proud, and never was his character-
istic energy better manifested than in this self-imposed
task. He found the territory absolutely devoid of
public schools, yet by the most determined personal
efforts he soon established schools in every town and
settlement having sufficient pupils, under a wise and

FLORIDA

provided law he caused

pride of

to be enacted.

his life and he is justly entitled

of the father of t
tory of Arizona,

accord him."
It was only
ernor Safford

the public-school

It was
to the n

system in the terri-

and such honor will history surely

a few days

before

that his sister, Dr.

passed away. She had b
Medical College at Bost
Governor and Mrs. Sa
Tampa Tribune wrote:
"Both were eouallv

views

the death
Mary J.

leen at the head of the

;on,
iffor

of Gov-
Safford,
Women's

but came south to live with

rd.

In this

connection

Georgia, graduating from that institution
1911. On February Ist, of the following!

came to Bascom

and in

one year has gained recog-

nition as an able and successful

labors,

his high professional

sterling characteristics

confidence

in which he

physician,
attainment

has justified the

is held by

nity and the local public.

Dr. Bell married,

Elvira

October

Covington, and they

born August

public-spirited, broad in their

of life and philanthropic

in their

natures.

Dr. Mary J. Safford was one of the best known woman

physicians

in the

county.

a keen knowledge of her
to attract or repel at will,

win all hearts on the

as a sister.

The death

Of high

mental

capacity,

fellow creatures enabled her
and she apparently chose to

west coast,

where she is mourned

of ex-Governor

Safford

Methodist

ch

5,1
urch

to the democratic
with the Masonic

foremost
county.

ranks

[9I.

24,

g year, he
ned recog-

who by his
;s and his

respect

the medical frater-

1909, Miss Hattie

have one son, Elzie

Dr. Bell is

and his political

party.
order.

of the me

He enjoys a large

a member of the
allegiance is given

Fraternally he is connected

His ability places him in
medical profession in Jack

practice,

;son

a progres-

sive citizen and one whose position in the community

is enviable
regarding 1

because

the expression of

him is altogether

opinion

favorable.

lowing so close upon that

of his sister,

was not unex-

pected,

but is none the

less truly

mourned.

Saffbrd has used his best energies to advance

interests

in every practicable way since

ter here and his services

enthusiasm and
recent years hi.

S

Governor
Florida's

his first win-

were characterized by that

zeal that marks the grand citizen.

s leisure,

chiefly devoted to
-Tarpon Springs
lost. in the death

two friends upon whose

monument

during

talents and money have

advancing the west coast generally

in particular-and

this county has

of this talented brother and sister,

graves will

built of their neighbors'

rest the noble

love and

trust

their lives.

HON.

A DISTINGUISHED

While
greatness
it is the

modesty
achieved
modest n

human instincts;

emotions.

W. A. BLOUNT.

CITIZEN

AND LAWYER

OF FLORIDA.

was not essential to the so-called
by Napoleon and Alexander, yet

ian

who most

one might

appeals

to the finer

say, the sacred human

It is this quality, as much as any other,

that appeals to the
deeds by egotists n

work of him

unostentatiously,
respect.

admirers of Robert

E. Lee.

fire the imagination, but

who does great things and

compels

the deepest

Heroic
the life

endures much,

admiration

William

A. Blount

was born in Clarke

county,

WILLIAM

Dr. William

E. Bell

E. BELL, M. D.

, a prominent

physician and surgeon

young physician
in Dale county,
a son of William

natives of
chant dur
parents of
still living,

Alabama,

of that state,

during

Clement

and successful

of Bascom,

December 2,

was born

He is

S. and Maria (O
the former a

his entire

of seventeen
ig, namely:

active

seven

Joseph,

Dale county, Alabama;

of Malone,

of whom

is engaged
Mary, who

Jale county;
Florida; Dr

in farm-
married

Dr. James

on October 25, 1851. His t
It Blount and Julia Elizabeth

both born in Newbern, North Carolina.

a young

man,

saw a chance

and moved t
a plantation.

several

years,

, and a practicing la
for the accumulation

to Alabama to

engage

but finally removed

parents,

Alexander

Washington, were
The father,

lawyer,
on of

in the

thought
property,

operation

to Pensacola,

ida, in 1858, where the father reengaged in thd
tice of law-Pensacola, even at that time,

promise
out of

of becoming
the Civil war

Alabama, where they

ed for
Flor-
prac-
giving

a great city. On the breaking
, the family again removed to
lived for several years, during

review;

Loney,

William; Leona,
Dale county; ani
Dr. William E

, who is associated
who married B.

d Bascom, of the
. Bell acquired hi

same section.
is preliminary edu-

acquired habits of
which have regulated

introspection a
and sustained

Lnd self-reliance
him throughout

cation

Newton

in his native state, and afterwa
College of Eclectic Medical

Surgery

the Georgia
at Atlanta,

were endowed

s

7 a

FLORIDA

than ordinary mentality, and both had exalted

of the duties of life. It als
of the fact that Mr. Blount
his profession, that both the

ideas

o should be told, in view

has succeeded

Washingtons

were professional people for generations.

ers on the

father's

mother's side, were lawyers.

so well in

and Blounts
Three broth-

and two brothers on the
One of them, William H.

In 1890,

Mr. Blount was tendered by H. L. Mit-

chell, the governor of the

on the state

supreme

that his practice was
to accept, he declined.
the governor of the

state of Florida,

a position

bench, but because of the

so great as not

In 1889 he w
state, one of a

three lawyers to revise the statutes of

to permit him

as appointed by
commission of
Florida, and he

Washington,

served

as a member

age of twenty-six.

of Congress

at the

was chairman of the

commission.

His part of the

work embraced the second, third and fourth

divisions,

The life

stories

of men

have performed deeds worthy
fellow citizens of the south,

of Mr. Blount's

of consideration by their
are for the most part

cover
work,

the administration of the civil law.

with very few changes,

state, being embodied in the

is still the law of the

same divisions

of the

similar.

of the south

competency,

were plunged,

erty, and their youth

or better, the

young

by the Civil war, into pov-

and early manhood passed

general

statutes

of Florida, adopted in

He was a member of the senate of the

Florida

for four years,

including the

state of

sessions of

heroic struggles for subsistence
a result of this condition, Mr. I

and education.

3lount's early educa-

and 1905. He was president of the Chamber of Com-

merce of

the city

of Pensacola for

four years.

tion was frequently interrupted, but he was determined

was a

member

of the capitol commission

of the

to acquire knowledge, and by

able, in

intense

application

1870, to enter the University of Georgia.

this institution he graduated

in 1872,

first in his

of Florida, appointed by the
the Capitol building. He w;

governor,
as, in 191I,

the committee appointed by the

to reconstruct

a member

circuit court of

with an

A. B. degree,

law class of the

diplon
began
Senate

as LL. B.

and immediately entered the

same university, and received

coming back to

Pensacola,

the practice of law in the office of United

C. W. Jones,

kindly heart, whose keen

States

a man of great intellect and

insight must

have recognized

peals of the fifth judicial circuit of the United

to suggest

to the supreme court of the United

changes in the
cases in equity.
attorney for the

rules

prescribed

For many years

States,
States

by that court for

Mr. Blount

was city

city of Pensacola, and during his term

of office he prepared the

first city code.

This code, in

and appreciated the talents of his

his chose
industry

I

profession,

young

Mr. Blount, by his

and high character, rose

rapidly

friend.

intelligence,

a high

the manner of stating the law, and the arrangement of

subjects, was
been taken as

so concise, clear and practical that it

a

model for

subsequent ones.

position.
In 1885 he had already
the leading minds of the

terms

become recognized as
state, and was selected

one of
ed as a

member of the constitutional convention, which met in
Tallahassee during that year and adopted the state

constitution, which is still in

convention

A. E. Maxwell, f
from Florida, and

force.

from Escambia

His associates in

county, were Judge

ormer Confederate States senator
afterwards successively judge of

E. Yonge, subsequently

provisions

attorney

shown

e state,
general

by the

of this constitution

avoiding

In 1887 Mr. Blount formed a copartnership with

his brother,

Carter,

form

ice. became

composed
Yonge.
sively to c
consists 1
panics, an

A. C. Blount, and in
er circuit judge and s
a member of the firm.

of these thr
Mr. Blount 4
officee practice,

ee gentlemen,

devotes

Igo6 Judge F. B.

supreme

court

The firm
and J. E.

himself almost

and as the business

largely in representing public

id other

corporations,

his time

is a member

is now
Davis
exclu-

of the firm

utinty com-
is more than

supreme

States, anm
- court has

reaching
Blount iF

many

American

court-

cases before

Bar Association,

member

interests

article

writer

to meet

convention.
the highest
interests of

his great

served witl
exception,
is devotion

character,

capacity for v
kindliness and

modesty.

Legislation,"

a member

University of I
invitation of
Georgia, and in

of the

and is also

la State Bar Association,
organization during the
:n the degree of LL. D. b:
He has made an address

mater,

the University

1911 he spoke before the Georgia State

Bar Association, upon the

subject

"Passing

Ig

la

or

FLORIDA

the Stetson University law class, on "Ethical Duties of
Lawyers." In 1911, upon invitation, he delivered an
address before the Alabama State Bar Association,
upon the subject of: "The Past, Present and Future
Status of Employers and Employees." In 1912, upon
invitation, he delivered an address before the State
Bar Association of Illinois, at Chicago, upon the sub-
ject of: "Procedural Reform," and in April of the

present
ciation o
to them
Courts."

year he was
if Louisiana

pon the
He is to

invited by
to address

subject
I deliver

the State Bar Asso-
that body, and spoke
"The People and the
re the American Bar

Association at its meeting in Montreal, in Sep
of this year, an address on "The Struggle for Si
cation 'of Procedure,-The Goal and Its Attain
He has been for years, and is, a member
Florida of the conference of commissioners oi
form State Laws, a body earnestly and ably st
ing uniform laws upon important subject
administration by the several states.
Mr. Blount married Miss Cora Moreno, of
cola, in 1878, and has a family consisting ol
sons and two daughters. The oldest son,
Blount, Jr., is also a lawyer, and is at present
attorney for the first judicial circuit of Floric
In his home and social life, Mr. Blount is a
man,-affectionate, considerate, attentive, u
and devoted. He is charitable to a fault, nev

tember
implifi-
Iment."
from
n Uni-
uggest-
ts for

Pensa-
f three
W. A.
state's
da.
n ideal
nselfish
er fail-

ing to heed an appeal for aid, though in many
instances he must know that his assistance is unappre-
ciated and misplaced. As a citizen, he has always
been among the foremost in contributing to the en-
terprises and public institutions of his adopted city.
Mr. Blount is of middle height, strongly and com-
pactly built, and has a most attractive and engaging
personality.

JOSEPH

Well
father

may Joseph
of Miami, for

ALBERT McDONALD.

Albert
he was

McDonal
not only

called
of the

business men of the city but his activities have, since
the foundation of the community, touched and affected
practically every important phase of municipal expan-
sion. His precedents and his standards have marked
Miami's history; his ideals and enthusiasm influenced
the direction of development and his initiative spirit
and organizing power founded and built up -its great
institutions, and today his enterprise, energy and pro-
gressiveness are guiding elements in its security and

greatness. He
work by which
formed from a

assisted Henry M. Flagler in the magic
the Florida east coast has been trans-
wilderness, with only here and there a

sparse settlement of fishermen or Seminole Indians,
into a modern, populous country, where there are
prosperous towns and cities with the most magnificent
hotels the world affords. He has been one of the most
able of Mr. Flagler's lieutenants and his brains, his
energy and his dynamic personality are responsible
for the successful accomplishment of a great deal of
the work which is now history in the state. It is im-
possible to estimate the vast amount of good he has
done in Miami alone and he is still carrying the work
forward as president of the Board of Trade and of the
J. A. McDonald Lumber Company as well as an able
official on the boards of many of the city's most im-
portant corporate concerns.
Mr. McDonald is a native of Prince Edward Island,
Canada, born in that province in the '5os, and is a
son of James and Ann (McKinnon) McDonald, both
of Scotch ancestry. He acquired his education in the
public schools of his native community and after lay-
ing aside his books at an early age, learned ship car-
pentering, spending seven years thereafter engaged
in that line of work in Canada, and afterward pur-
suing the business for five years in the United States.
He lived in various parts of this country until 1881
when he came to Florida, which state has since been
his home. In the year of his arrival he formed a part-
nership with Mr. McGuire under the firm name of
McGuire & McDonald, in the general contracting busi-
ness. It was in this connection that Mr. McDonald
did his first important development work on the east
coast, for his firm, becoming one of the strongest of
its kind in the state, was retained for service on the
construction of the magnificent hotels, then in course
of erection by the late Henry M. Flagler, multi-mil-
lionaire and public-spirited citizen of Florida. Mc-
Guire & McDonald were engaged to build the famous
Ponce de Leon and Alcazar hotels at St. Augustine
and later were in charge of construction of the hotels
at Ormond, in 1891. Two years later the firm built the
Royal Poinciana in Palm Beach and in 1895 The
Breakers in the same city. This beautiful hostelry
was destroyed by fire in 1905 and in the same year
rebuilt by McGuire & McDonald. The firm erected
the Royal Palm in Miami in 1896 and the Colonial at
Nassau, Bahama islands, in 1899-all of these being
known as the famous chain of east coast hotels, owned
by Mr. Flagler, but operated under the name of the
Florida East Coast Hotel Company.
It may readily be seen that Mr. McDonald's activ-
ities at this period of his career were important and
their effects far-reaching. In addition they afforded
him a rare opportunity of studying business and other
conditions in various parts of Florida and of compar-
ing relative merits. The results of his study became
apparent in 1896, when, at the very foundation of the

FLORIDA

city of Miami he built for himself the large Biscayne
Hotel, an enterprise of great magnitude for so small
a city and a striking'evidence of Mr. McDonald's
faith in the future development of the community.
That he possessed great and unusual business fore-
sight and keen discrimination is amply evidenced to-
day, as the Biscayne Hotel, a solid three-story brick
structure, is still one of the most popular hostelries in
southern Florida.
Mr. McDonald gave a great deal of his time to the
affairs of his hotel, but being a man of varied inter-
ests and comprehensive business ability he also ex-
tended his activities to other fields, becoming
connected with practically all important business inter-
ests of the city and figuring as the founder and pro-
moter of many of the most substantial enterprises.
In 1902 he organized the J. A. McDonald Lumber
Company, and he has since been president of this con-
cern which under his progressive management has had
a successful career, expanding rapidly until it is today
one of the largest industrial enterprises of Miami.
Mr. McDonald was at one time president of Halcyon
Hall Hotel Company, is at present vice president of
the Miami Transfer Company, president of the Ocean
Beach Realty Company and chairman of the board of
directors of the Bay of Biscayne Bank. As president
of the Board of Trade he is doing discriminating, far-
reaching and constructive work in the general inter-
ests of the city, making his initiative spirit, his well
timed aggressiveness and his versatile business ability
factors in advancement and growth. Specific instances
may be mentioned of his timely aid to the city in hours
of need and of his untiring labor in the support of

existing

institutions

as well

as his efficient

In 1870 Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to
Miss Elizabeth Wallace, of Derby, Connecticut, and
they became the parents of three children, of whom
only one is now living, Mrs. John B. Reilly, who re-
sides with her family in Miami.
Mr. McDonald is a member of the Roman Catholic
church and molds his life according to its principles,
taking an active part in the promotion of its doctrmes
in this section of the state. He is identified with the
Knights of Columbus at St. Augustine and belongs to
the Jacksonville lodge of Elks. He took an active part
in the organization and incorporation of the new city
of Miami and for the first three years of the existence
of the community was a member of the city council,
an office which he is again holding at the present'time.
He has indeed had exceptional opportunities for ad-
vancement, but never one advantage which his energy
did not earn and his ability command. A man of wide
sympathies and broad charity he has yet never sought
self-exploitation and when he aids the poor or unfor-
tunate, as he is constantly doing, his left hand never
knows what his right hand does. Only those who come
within the close circle of his friendship know the
full scope of his powers or the extent of his interests
and yet to the people of Miami he stands as the splen-
did representative of the prominent capitalist to whom
business is but one phase of life and does not exclude
his active participation in all the other vital elements
which go to make up the sum of human existence.

ARTHUR E.

DONEGAN.

work

* the organization of new enterprises. In 1907 when the
Fort Dallas National Bank failed and it was feared
that the Bank of Bay Biscayne would be subjected to
a run which might end in disaster, Mr. McDonald,
with other leading business men of Miami, promptly
rallied to the support of the threatened bank and
Mr. McDonald, by accepting the presidency, did much
to restore confidence and to insure its stability. He
also aided the Florida East Coast Ice Company at a

time of similar

when

its affairs

were entangled

with those of the Fort Dallas National Bank, accept-
ing the office of president and effectually relieving it
from all financial embarrassment. Each year of the
seventeen during which he has lived in Miami has
chronicled something to his credit along lines of busi-
ness development and has added something to the
respect and esteem in which he is uniformly held,
finally taking him out of the ranks of the merely indi-
vidually successful to stand among the chosen few,
whose lives and prosperity have been of direct benefit
to their fellowmen.

Kissimmee is fortunate in numbering Arthur E.
Donegan among her citizens, for he has made his
constructive intelligence, his progressive spirit, his
initiative and aggressiveness the foundation of a great
and lasting success, which, touching and influencing
many phases of the political, social and financial devel-
opment, has for the past fifteen years been one of the
powerful factors in the growth of the comnununity.
Mr. Donegan stands as a central figure in financial
circles of this part of Florida for he is president of
three of. the strongest and most conservative banks in
the section, and he is, moreover, connected through
investment or official service with a great many of the
business institutions upon which rest the present se-
curity and future growth of the city in which he re-
sides. As a politician, his record has been varied in
service and faultless in honoi, and his career has been
not only prosperous but useful and beneficial in its
various relations.
Mr. Donegan was born in County Queens, Ireland,
August 4, 1876, and is a son of Peter and Susan (Cox)

FLORIDA

Donegan, natives of the Emerald isle. In that coun-
try the father was a farmer owning his property and
acting also as manager of some English estates. He
came to America in 1886, and settled in Florida, where
he continued his connection with agricultural pursuits.
His son Arthur was ten years of age when the family
removed to the United States, and he completed an
education begun in Ireland in the Kissimmee highly
school. After laying aside his books he became con-

nected with a
intendent and
three years.
himself with
member of a i
nection when
tion. That he
his business ca
tions plainly in

railroad

he did able w
At the end of
mercantile inte
veil known firm
he was elected
has since that

ireer,
idicate

his varie(
and he is

as chief clerk and

super-

ork in this capacity for
that time he identified
rests of the city, as a
I here, severing this con-
supervisor of registra-
time been prosperous in
d and important connec-
well known in financial,

and is connected with a variety of important business
concerns in the city where he makes his home. He
is vice president of The Everglades Land Company,
secretary of the United Land & Investment Company,
president of the South Florida Lumber Company,
president of The Donegan Cattle Company, president
of The Arthur E. Donegan Hardware Company and is
largely interested in the development and exploitation
of Florida lands. He was the first president of the
Kissimmee Board of Trade and has been active in
the affairs of the body since its organization, serving
at present as chairman of the finance committee. All
of his business interests are carefully and conserva-
tively managed for Mr. Donegan is a far-sighted, able
and resourceful man, capable of initiating important
projects and possessed of the intellectual power and
the breadth of view necessary to carry them forward

to successful

completion.

industrial

and commercial

circles

of the city,

and for

many years has been one of the most powerful indi-
vidual forces in the general business development. On
the 2d of April, 1910o, he aided in the organization of
the Citizens' Bank of Kissimmee, which in that year
was capitalized with a stock of thirty-five thousand
dollars and with the following officers: Arthur E.
Donegan, president; H. M. Pfann, vice president;
C. W. Dann, second vice president; and Paul K.
Weaver, cashier. Since that time the bank has en-
joyed a steady and rapid growth, much of the credit
for its expansion being due to the energy and initia-
tive spirit of its president. At the present time the
deposits amount to two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, the surplus is five thousand and the value of
the bank building and fixtures over twenty thousand.
Four per cent interest is paid on all savings accounts
and safety deposit boxes are rented to patrons. The
bank building is a modern two-story brick structure,
fifty by seventy-five feet in dimensions, and attract-
ively and modernly furnished in every particular. The
present officers are: Arthur E. Donegan, president;
H. M. Pfann, vice president; and Paul K. Weaver,
cashier. The board of directors is as follows: Arthur
E. Donegan, H. M. Pfann, C. W. Dann, F. W. Hill,
and L. H. Cohoon. The bank is the depository for
the funds of the state of Florida, Osceola county and
Kissimmee, and is undoubtedly one of the best man-
aged and most prosperous financial institutions in
this part of the state. Mr. Donegan is also president
of the First National Bank of St. Cloud and of the
State Bank of Haines City, connections which indicate
something of his power and high standing in banking
circles. He is in addition president of The W. B.
Makinson Company of Kissimmee, president of The
Model Hardware Company of Lakeland, treasurer
of The Florida Plantation Company of New York

It is not alone along business lines however, that
Mr. Donegan has done splendid work for Kissimmee.
for in the political field he has been prominent and
active for many years, and has made his name a syno-
nym for progress and advancement. After serving
ably and efficiently as supervisor of registration he was
appointed deputy collector of Osceola county and in
this office discharged his duties in a conscientious and
capable manner. In I907 he was elected to the state
legislature and after serving for two years was ap-
pointed deputy clerk of the circuit court. After a
time he was elected to the office of clerk of the cir-
cuit court and acted in this capacity until 1912 when
he was sent to the Florida senate representing the
nineteenth senatorial district comprising Osceola and
Orange counties. Since assuming his duties he has
been identified with much progressive and reforma-
tory legislation and his influence and vote are always
given to projects of improvement and advancement.
A man of modern views, advanced ideas, high stand-
ards and disinterested public spirit, he has made all
the activities of his life conform to one ideal-that
of making his individual success an element in public
development.

HON.

EMMETT

WILSON.

Hon. Emmett Wilson, who at an early age has won
distinction as a representative of the legal fraternity,
now practicing in Pensacola, is also well known in the
city as United States congressman from the Third Flor-
ida district. He was born in Belize, Central America,
September 17, i882, and is a son of F. C. and Eliza-
beth Virginia (Maxwell) Wilson. The paternal
branch of the family came originally from Virginia,

FLORIDA

where the grandfather, C. L.

planter.
Wilson's
mett and

He was a veteran

of the

maternal grandparents

Sarah

mer a native
of Virginia.

Wilson,

was a large

Mexican.war.

were Augustus Em-

(Brockenborough) Maxwell, the

of Georgia, born
The grandfather

and Alabama and followed the

a lawyer of great ability and power.

in 1818,

and the latter

was reared in Georgia
legal profession, being

He supported

Benevolent

Protective

father and grandfather,
the democratic party and

Order

of Elks. Like his

he gives a stanch support to
is eminently progressive and

public-spirited in matters of citizenship.

He keeps

well informed upon the questions and issues of

day and in
progressive

matters
stand,

relating
manifest

to public

affairs

in his cooperation

many movements for the public

the Confederacy during the Civil

war and

was at

time representative from Florida to the
senate and before the war was a member

Confederate
from Florida

of the

United States

thirty-fourth sessions.
known in public life,

Florida

legislature, as

congress

in the thirty-third and

PARKER ADAIR HENDERSON.

He was for many years well

servmg
attorney

as a member of the

general

and judge of

Parker
manager

Adair

Henderson,

president

and general

of the McCrimmon Lumber Company and by

the circuit and .supreme

courts.

He was a stanch

democrat in his political beliefs and in his

religious

virtue of this
personality a

position

and the

powerful element in the

force of his ability and
general business

views a devout adherent of the

and his

wife were the

parents

Episcopal church.

of three children.

F. C. Wilson, father of the subject

was born in Alabama, May

moved to

Florida,

locating

in

30, 1544
I Chipley,

of this review,
L. and in 1882

where he

now

life of Miami, was born in Hampton, Henry county,
Georgia, January 7, 1875. He is a son of Arthur J.
Henderson, a prominent manufacturer of cotton goods,

who still

maidenhood

resides

in Hampton.

Miss Irene

His wife

was in her

Adair.

resides.

He studied

active practice of

medicine

his profession

and has been in the
n for many years in

Parker Adair Henderson was reared in Hampton,

Georgia,

and acquired his education in the public

Chipley, where he is today

regarded as one of

schools of that community.

Laying

aside his books

leading representatives
is also a veteran of the
the beginning to the ei
in the Confederate ar

democratic party,

of the medical

fr:

* Civil war, having
nd of that conflict

ny.

and his

aternity.
served

as a private

Politically he supports the
religious views are in accord

at the age

of .sixteen,

he began working

a sawmill

and from that time until the present has been continu-
ously identified with the lumber business, which he

thoroughly

understands

in principle and detail.

is not only an excellent business manager and

execu-

with the doctrines of the Episcopal
he married Miss Elizabeth Virginia

church.

In 1865

Maxwell, who was

tive but also

forming

every

a practical workman, capable of per-
r process of the work by which the

born in Florida and who died in Chipley, June 2r,

rough timber is transformed into finished building

Ten children were born to

sons and two daughters,

ranging

their union, eight
in age from forty-

lumber.

For fifteen years he gave his. attention to

lumber interests in Georgia,

first as an employee and

five to twenty-seven years.
Emmett Wilson was reared in Florida,

later as an independent employer and dealer, and in

acquiring

Igo6 came to Miami,

where

he has

since resided.

his prel
Chipley.
Florida

iminary education

in the public schools of

He supplemented this by a

course

in the

State College at Tallahassee and was later a

here organized

becoming

the McCrimmon Lumber Company,

secretary

treasurer,

C. T. McCrimmon, holding the

his brother-in-law,
office of president.

student

in Stetson University at De

institution he received

his degree

Land, from which

in law.

was

Their association continued u
Mr. Henderson purchased his

ntil April,

1912,

when

brother-in-law's inter-

admitted

to the bar and has since practiced

in Pensa-

est and he now practically owns the entire business,

cola, winning

for himself an enviable reputation in

although

in order

to keep the concern incorporated

his chosen profession.

In recognition

of his known

few shares of stock still remain

in the names

of other

ability, his fellow citizens have honored him with

members of

his family.

The name, the McCrimmon

various

important official positions, including those

assistant

United

States

torney and states attorney.

attorney,

attorney
He

United

States at-

is now congressman

Lumber
stands

Company, has

been retained and

in Miami it

for upright and honorable commercial methods

and for the high standards of business

integrity

which

from his district, his
tions being a pleasant
the public service.
Mr. Wilsnn fnlltw

past activity

in responsible

post-

indication of his future work ini

have made Mr. Henderson an honored and respected

business

From

one of
wealth,
mnating

is connected

man.

a financial

point of

the most successful me
won by straightforward,
work during the years,

earnest

and discrim-

one

4

FLO

RIDA

invested, principally in Miami real estate. He has
firm faith in the future of this city and has given
practical and beneficial evidence of it by putting his
money into local enterprises. In 1913 he constructed
on the west side of Avenue D what is doubtless the
most modern wholesale house in Miami. Built of
reinforced concrete, it is one hundred by one hundred
and eighty feet in dimensions and two stories in
height and is to be used by two large wholesale groc-
ery firms.
In 1898 Mr. Henderson was united in marriage to
Miss Julia McCrimmon, of Rochelle, Georgia. and they
have two sons: Parker, Jr., aged ten and Arthur J.,
aged three. Mr. Henderson is a member of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church and fraternally is connected
with the Masonic order, in which he belongs to the
commander and the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
He is a member also of the Benevolent Protective Or-
der of Elks and the Hoo Hoos. He is a wide-awake
and energetic business man, modern in his methods
and progressive in his ideas, and his success has been
used to further not only his individual prosperity but
also the best interests of the community. In Miami
his name is a synonym for ability, enterprise and that
public spirit which is evidenced in practical work for
the general welfare and, in consequence, he has won
honor and widespread esteem and the confidence and
respect of a wide circle of friends.

ROBERT NAUDAIN

ELLIS.

Jacksonville is largely indebted to Robert Naudain
Ellis, civil and mechanical engineer, who is the builder
of the waterworks system of the city. High profes-
sional skill, combined with deep interest in his work
and unfaltering devotion to the public good, gave to
Jacksonville a system entirely adequate to the needs of
the city and unsurpassed in excellence and service by
that of any city of equal size.
Mr. Ellis has resided almost continuously in Jackson-
ville since 1872 and for many years has occupied the
position of engineer of the board of bond trustees.
His life record had its beginning in Fredericksburg,
Virginia. on the 6th of January, 1843, his parents being
James E. and Elizabeth (Naudain) Ellis. He comes of
English and Huguenot ancestry. The Ellis family was
founded in America by William and James Ellis,
natives of England, who crossed the Atlantic in the
latter part of the seventeenth century and settled in
North Carolina. The family of William Ellis afterward
removed to Virginia, where his descendants have lived
many generations. In that state Dr. James E. Ellis,

father

of R. N. Ellis, was for many years a prominent

physician and
Fredericksburg.

ranked with
He married

the leading citizens of
Elizabeth Naudain, con-

nected with a well known French Huguenot family
that was established in Delaware in the early days.
Robert N. Ellis' grandfather, Arnold Naudain, was at
one time a member of the United States senate.
During the early boyhood of their son Robert, Dr.
and Mrs. Ellis removed with their family to New York
and he acquired his education in the public schools of
that state and in the academy of Fergusonville.
Attracted to the profession of civil engineer, he began
studying under private instruction, completing his
course in 1858. He made his initial step in the business
world as a draughtsman for the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, of Philadelphia, in 1859, and after serving in
that capacity for about two years secured an appoint-
ment, in 1860, as a member of the engineering corps of
the United States navy. He saw service during the
Civil war under Admirals Farragut and Porter, and was
in most of the important navy battles both on the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In January, 1863, he was
captured at Galveston, but was held prisoner for only
a few months before-he was exchanged. He remained
in the naval service until 1867, when he resigned and
became a resident of Florida, turning his attention to
the cultivation of oranges at Orange Mills in November
of that year.
Five years later Mr. Ellis resumed the practice of his
profession in Jacksonville and his work as civil and
mechanical engineer has made him widely known
throughout the state and gained him prominence in his
profession. In 1873 he formed a partnership with
A. E. McClure, which was continued until 1888. Their
attention was devoted to architectural and engineering
projects, their services being in demand on important
contracts in adjacent states as well as Florida. In 1878
Mr. Ellis was engaged by the bond trustees of Jack-
sonville to draw the plans for the waterworks and
sewerage systems and became superintendent of con-
struction on both of those important public improve-
ments, which he successfully and satisfactorily installed.
His previous experience in professional lines and his
comprehensive understanding of the scientific principles
underlying his work enabled him to establish a water-
works system which in every way was adequate to the
needs of the city of Jacksonville at that period and for
a number of years thereafter. He continued as super-
intendent of the works until 189,; and in the meantime
was called to other positions, having in 1886 been made
city engineer-the first salaried official in that position.
On his retirement from public service in 1891 he turned
his attention to the phosphate industry near Bartow,
designing, building and operating the National Peace
River Phosphate plant. He continued in that business

until 1895, in which year he returned

to Jacksonville;

1

FLORIDA

lis services being again called into requisition by the
ity, which had known such phenomenal growth as to

require a new and greatly
works. He drew the plans
struction of the plant and
attention to every detail of
that no city in the south has
equal it. Since his return
engineer for the board of 1
extended the sewerage sy
plant for the city and in so
exigencies of the moment
The importance of his woi
for upon the water and

extended system of water-
and superintended the con-
system, giving his personal
construction, with the result
a better system and few can
to Jacksonville he has been
bond trustees. He has also
stem and the electric light
doing has looked beyond the
to the needs of the future.
rk cannot be overestimated,
sewerage systems does the

health of the city in large part depend. He has planned,
built and inaugurated a system thoroughly adequate to
the needs of Jacksonville, not only at the present but
also for some years to come, even though the city should
continue the rapid growth which it has now enjoyed for
some time.
In connection with his profession Mr. Ellis has
studied broadly and deeply and is interested in every
problem bearing upon civil and mechanical engineering.
He is studying, too, the needs of the state, its possibili-
ties and its opportunities and is an earnest advocate of
the improvement of the inland waterways and of the
building of good public roads. The Jacksonville Board
of Trade numbers him among its leading and influential
members, and his efforts in behalf of the public wel-
fare, both within and without that organization, have
been far-reaching and beneficial.
In 1873 occurred the marriage of Mr. Ellis and Miss
Frances McClure, a daughter of the Rev. Edward and
Sarah McClure. Their children were seven in number,
six now living: Robert N., Clarence H., James E.,
Frank H., A. Wright, and Florence M.
The family attend St. John's Protestant Episcopal
church, of which Mr. Ellis is a communicant. He also
holds membership with the Church Club and is a mem-
ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His
political support is given the democracy, but the honors
and emoluments of public office have little attraction
for him, as he prefers to concentrate his energies upon
his business affairs, which, capably directed, are bring-
ing to him notable success and well deserved
prominence.

EDWIN

S. HUBBARD.

Edwin S. Hubbard, who has been intimately
connected with the agricultural and horticultural de-
velopment of Putnam county and who has achieved a
national reputation on the subject of citrus fruit, owns

a valuable farm and
Florida, where he is

orange grove at Federal
extensively engaged in

Point,
potato

culture. A native of Middletown, Connecticut, he
was born May 18, 1860, a son of Samuel J. and Frances
D. (Smith) Hubbard, and is a descendant of an old
English family which came from the mother country
to America, settling in Middletown, Connecticut,
about 1636. The parents were also natives of Con-
necticut and the maternal grandmother was a Sears,
that family being prominent and well known in New
England and Long Island, New York, and a branch
of the same trace their ancestry back to Stephen Hop-
kins of Mayflower fame. Samuel J. Hubbard followed
agricultural pursuits all his life and was also engaged
in the lumber business, being prominent in the sec-
tion in which he lived. His brother-in-law, an uncle
of our subject, was one of the early pioneers of Cali-
fornia, to which state he moved in 1849 at the time
of the gold excitement, making his way to the west
via Panama with Chief Justice Field, a man of state-

importance,

was his lifelong

friend.

and Mrs. Samuel J. Hubbard were the parents of four
children: Edwin S., of this review; Clement S., of
Higganum, Connecticut, treasurer of the Cutaway
Harrow Company; Elmer S., also of that city and
president of the same company; and Fannie D.,
the wife of George G. Whitmore, of Middletown,
Connecticut.
Edwin S. Hubbard was reared under the parental
roof and in the acquirement of his education attended
the schools of the neighborhood and high school in
Middletown, Connecticut. Early in life he became
acquainted with the details of agriculture under the
able guidance of his father, remaining on the home
place and assisting in the management of the farm.
He there made his home until he was about twenty
years of age, when he decided upon removal to Flor-
ida, recognizing the opportunities which awaited an
energetic and ambitious young man in that country.
He came to Federal Point in I88o and acquired some
land which he devoted to orange culture. He also
was engaged for some time in merchandising and fol-
lowed general farming. He has now thirty acres
devoted to the cultivation of Irish potatoes and ten
acres planted to oranges, deriving a gratifying income
from these sources of agriculture. As the years have
passed he has greatly improved his land and has insti-
tuted such equipment. and conveniences as are con-
sidered essential to up-to-date farming. He has made
careful study of the raising of citrus fruits and in the
course of years has gained valuable experience along
this line.
On October TI, 1882, Mr. Hubbard married Miss
Louisa A. Hart, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York,
and a daughter of Benjamin H. Hart, one of the

FLORIDA

pioneer settlers of

settled

Federal

in 1867, there making

int, Florida, where
his winter home.

Florida, he was born in Volusia county, January 27,
1857, a son of Samuel and Mary E. (Hunter) Knight,

was a prosperous

agriculturist

horticultural lines in New

York.

an expert

Mr. and

Mrs. Hub-

natives of
reared an

Wayne

d married

county,

Georgia.

in Georgia

but in

parents

were

removed

bard are the
is a vocalist
York part of

parents of two

children:

Edith

of reputation, making her home in New

the time; and

E. Stuart, who is engaged

in business with his uncle, William H. Hart, at Pough-

keepsie, Ne
members of

New York.

Mr. and Mrs.

Episcopal

church,

Hubbard are

taking

an active

to Florida, the father

from what he
as a volunteer

having

had seen of the

in the Indian

pressed with conditions
i855 brought his plans

when our subject was bo

decided upon this

country

when

serving

step,
:ning

war, being favorably im-
as they then existed, and in

to realization.
rn he lived in

At the time
a log fort, to

and helpful interest in that institution and its allied

which

he had retreated

during the last Indian

upris-

organizations.
treasurer of the

Mr. Hubbard at present serves as

town of Federal

Point.

He has re-

ings in 1857 and there was blockaded for fifty-two
days at that time. They underwent many hardships

sided on his farm

for over thirty years

and is widely

and favorably known in Putnam county, where he is

numbered

among

tors in the development

the pioneers who were the

first fac-

and upbuilding of the sec-

All measures and projects undertaken in the

interest of tl
and while he

region

find in him a warm supporter

has attained to individual

has been a serviceable factor in the

prosperity, he

general advance-

and privations

at the

siege,

as they

only eighteen days and had to live

time on water and parched

the party
The father

coming
r passed

Matanzas river in

early days
ful and a

corn,

rations

for the rest of the

four or five

to their death through starvation.

away on the east

St. John

county,

he came here

an existence was easily

game

t coast,
in 1875.

near the
In the

was still plenti-

to be procured.

He has become widely recognized as an author-
citrus fruit, not only in this section, but all over

the state and even in national societies

founded

He is

the Florida

in furtherance

which are

of knowledge on that sub-

a member of the executive committee of

State Horticultural Society,

having be-

come connected with that organization one year after

its establishment.

He has contributed many valuable

papers on the subject of citrus culture

adjudged

to speak authoritatively

and that he is

is evidenced

fact that he was elected as one of the judges i
horticultural department at the Chicago World's

He has se
American

served on several important committees of the

Pomological

connection has
on such fruit

Society and his work in that

been of value in divulging knowledge

as is grown in this

district.

also served on most of the committees of the

Horticultural Society.

Edwin

S. Hubbard

He has
State

Such work as has been done by
is of inestimable value in bringing

to the attention of many the favorable conditions and

opportunities that
in this district an<

await all who

and while

he has

go out to seek them

never desired

recognition along public or political

work of

d agricultural
order.

official

he has along

lines done constructive

followed farming and

his life.
husband's
children:
Samuel; ;

The mother died

death. Ii
Martha ;
and D. W

D. W. Knight

stock-raising

during most

about two years

In their family

., of
came

after her

were the following

;a; Kate; Sarah,
this review.

with his

parents

county when about five or six years
boyhood on the parental farm, rec

tion in the schools

deceased;

to St. John

old and

receiving his

of the neighborhood.

leisure hours he assisted in the minor

the home place and
tails and methods'
local conditions, und

became acquainted
of agriculture most

under the able

He subsequently followed
his own account and early

his farm to orange culture.

five years of

grew

educa-
In his

duties about
with the de-
suitable for

guidance of his

agricultural

father.

pursuits

in life devoted
For the last

his life he engaged in mixed
he cultivated wv

and the thirty acres which

cipally

devoted

to potato

made a number of
farm and acquired

as are

considered

growmg

and corn.

f important improvements

much of
t twenty-
I farming
rere prin-
He had
upon his

I such equipment and machinery
indispensable by the modern and

up-to-date agriculturist.

Mr. Knight

who was

was married

born here

to Miss Dora Pellicer,

were the parents of

widow

of Bert Gelvington, who

passed

and Gertrude;

away,
ira. the

Among the successful
district was the late D. I

agriculturists

r Beck,
married

of the Hastings

acres near Hastings,

Clarence,

residents

Grady

who passed

s of St. John county;
Stevens. also residents

away

state of cultivation.

A native

in 1857,

_

o

FLORIDA

in Hastings,

where

he had

a large circle of

friends

and acquaintances. His religious affiliation was with
the Methodist Episcopal church, in which his widow

still holds membership. I
ods and industriously and

self to his
found his

tasks,
reward

-^ .

.4,

ollowmg progressive
energetically applyin

Mr. Knight attained

in well

meth-
g him-

success

earned prosperity,

he also was a constructive factor

development of this

6, I913,

section.

in the agricultural

He passed away on

deeply mourned by his immediate

tin case and inserted in one of the pillars at Astor

Park, and when the United

in New York

States

postoffice

and these pillars

was built

were removed,

the picture came to light again and the authorities
advertised for one of the family to take possession

thereof.
claimed ai
historical

An uncle of our subject,

nd

secured

Alfred Dunham,

it and it is now preserved

museum in New

grandfather also equipped the

during the War of

in the

Haven, Connecticut.

brig General Armstrong

1812 and sent her out as a privateer

family and a wide
memory as that ol

was always consider
his life qualities th
emulation.

circle

of friends,

who cherish his

a true Christian gentleman, who
rate of others and exemplified in

at

are admirable and

inspire

with letters of mark and reprisal to hamper British

shipping and fight the enemy's war vessels.

This boat

was finally destroyed in the port of Natal, South

Africa.

David

the position

Ross Dunham, the father, in 1824 held

of inspector

general of the state

of New

York at the time when General

Lafayette

visited

the city of

New York,

and took prominent part in the

DAVID L. DUNHAM.

ceremonies of welcoming the hero of the war of
independence.

About

the father came

to Florida among

There

probably

is nobody who stands

higher

in the

esteem and respect of his fellow citizens than David L.
Dunham, who for seventy-three years has been a resi-

dent of St. Augustine,

native town, being
of David Ross and

Florida, which

born here Januar
Mary Magdalene

he calls his

y 18, 184o, a son
(Facio) Dunham.

early settlers from the United States and, locating at
New Smyrna, built what was said to be the most hand-

some home south of the
In 1835 this mansion was
Wildcat Indians, and the

Potomac river at that time.
destroyed in an attack by the
father then came to St. Au-

gustine, where he made his continuous residence

The father, one of the pioneers of the state,
in 183o, only eleven years after the territory

came here
was ceded

he passed away

in 1869 at the age

The mother also died

here when

of seventy-five years.

seventy-eight

years

by the Crown of Spain to the United

States.

In their family were the following

children:

mother

was born near Hibernia,

John river,

and was

Florida, on the St.

a daughter of Francis

Facio, whose father's name was also Francis Philip,

Mary Louisa, deceased; Facio,

served
to the 1

who died in 1874

through the Civil war from its beginning up
battle of Chickamauga, in Company B, Third

the latter

Switzerland.

a native of the canton of Berne in

Francis Philip

the grandfather

Florida
mention

Regiment, being taken prisoner in the

engagement

and confined

afore-

a period of

our subject,

was born in London, England,

people emigrated to

the United

whence

States.

twenty-two months;
B. Taylor, residing

Matilda

W., the widow of James

at St. Augustine; Leonora,

David Ross Dunham, the father,

was born

in New

passed away

in infancy;

David L., of this

review;

York and his father, David Dunham, was a native of

fred, who passed away at the age of three years;

New Je
Fulton,

*rsey.

He built the

and named the

famous

steamship,

Robert

vessel in honor of the man

who first put a steamship on the

water.

first steam vessel that ever sailed out

It was the
any port in

of St. Augustine, who served

Civil war,
Fredericka
Coxetter.

enlisting at
, deceased,

for over a year in the

the age of fourteen; and Eliza
who was the wife of James G.

the world, and in

knocked

1821, upon the

Hudson river, he was

overboard by one of the booms and

in that body of

drowned

water before the boat was entirely

David L.
his home.

Dunham has always made St.

At the

of fourteen

yea

earn his own support and became early

Augustine

rs he began to
connected with

finished.

He was the Vanderbilt of his

an extensive owner

of vessels.

time, being

His son, David

the pioneer railroad work done in the state. He
the first spade of earth thrown up in building the

Dunham, the father of our subject, subsequent to his

railroad in Florida,

near

Townsend

Swamp, which

demise completed the vessel and

sailed

her to

Charles-

was fourteen miles in length and extended

from that

South

Carolina,

where she was
boilers were ot

and afterward

sold to the Brazilian

copper

.to New Orleans,
government. Her

and cost thirty-five

thou-

place to Jacksonville.

rodman

on the

survey

remuneration received

Our subject held

ing gang o
ten dollars

f that

a position
road and

per month and his

present

Before

surveying

day in active service.
drawn by David R<

studies

was enclosed in a account of poor health

and to recuperate engaged

crew

ed

FLORIDA

outside work. On July 13, 186i, he enlisted in Com-
pany H, Second Florida Regiment, and served on the
front until the third day of the battle of Gettysburg,
when he was captured and held as prisoner until Feb-
ruary 22, 1865, on which date he was exchanged. He
was orderly sergeant when he was taken captive and
upon his return was commissioned lieutenant. Vali-
antly and bravely he fought for the cause which he
represented and three times narrowly escaped death.
The first time he was wounded at the battle of Seven
Pines, the second time at Ellison Mills and the third
at the battle of Frasier's Farm in a seven days' fight.
Five balls had penetrated his hat and a piece of the
same was driven into the head and not taken out for
two months. His skull was injured in three different
places by the enemy's bullets. David L. Dunham took
part in fourteen large battles and could have been
excused from active service at Fredericksburg but
would not let his company go without him and on all
occasions during the war showed bravery and courage
in unmistakable manner. After hostilities were con-
cluded he returned to St. Augustine and engaged in
clerical work of various kinds, working for about fif-
teen years in the land department office, during which
time he held the position of clerk for six years, assist-
ant collector for seven years and collector for three
years. Shortly after the war he was also appointed
United States deputy marshal and was subsequently
made deputy circuit court clerk, holding this position
under his brother and two successors, and subsequently
was appointed clerk, discharging his duties with great
ability and circumspection, and in all held courthouse
positions for over thirty years. Whatever office he
held. he never forgot that it was a trust imposed upon
him by the people and never used it for furthering his
private ends. His careful methods and systematic,
painstaking work made him an efficient public ser-
vant and the record he made was an enviable one.
David L. Dunham married, in 1874, Miss Lillie
O'Hern, who was born near Middleburg, Florida, in
1854, a daughter of J. D. and Mary (Brantley)
O'Hern, natives of North Carolina and who both died
in this state. Mr. and Mrs. Dunham were the par-
ents of eight children, of whom four died in infancy,

the others being: Kenneth, who passed away at the
age of twenty-three years; Donald, a farmer of Clay
county, Florida; David R., of whom more extended
mention is made in another part of this work; and
Facio O., engaged in the hotel business at Miami,
Florida.
Mr. Dunham voted the democratic ticket until 19o7,
when he became an adherent of the socialist party,
believing that through the endeavors of this organiza-
tion will be brought about that release from oppres-
sion and political corruption so necessary for the well-

being of the masses. In 1908 lie was the socialist
candidate for the legislature and his personal popular-
ity is manifest through the fact that he was defeated
by only one hundred:and ninety votes. In 1912 he was
the party candidate for the office of state comptroller.
The family home was built by his mother-in-law and
is now known as Dunham House, having been con-
siderably enlarged and is so equipped that during the
season it can accommodate a number of guests. Mrs.
Dunham also owns another "Dunham House" at
Waynesville, North Carolina, which she conducts as
a summer hotel. The life record of David L. Dunham
is so closely interwoven with the history of the making
of this section of the state that the two can be hardly
separated and his efforts in every direction in public
or private life have been such as to solicit commenda-
tion. In public service he has given his best efforts
as unsparingly as if his private affairs were concerned
and his integrity, his patriotism, his loyalty no one
can doubt.

OSCAR

BLISS

SMITH.

A life of intense and well directed activity has
brought Oscar Bliss Smith to the high position which
he occupies in the regard of his fellow citizens, who
entertain for him the warmest esteem. His entire
career has been characterized by fidelity to duty and
his ability has enabled him to rise above the ranks of
the many and stand among the successful few. He
was born in Youngstown, Niagara county, New York,
April 27, 1837, his father being Obed Smith, who was
born in Massachusetts about 1786 and came from a
long line of enterprising, energetic ancestors who were
among the first settlers in Massachusetts. When but
eighteen years of age Obed Smith weighed two hnn-
dred and twenty pounds and could lift six hundred
weight. He married early and removed to western
New York, where most of his children were born and
reared. He was very successful as a civil engineer and
was engaged on the construction of large mills and
public works. In 184o he had a hundred thousand
dollar contract on the Illinois canal and during its
execution made his headquarters at Joliet. He was
the inventor of the "endless chain horse power," which
he used for years. He refused to secure a patent on
it, which another did and made millions from this in-
vention. Mr. Smith served as a captain of riflemen in
1812 and was reputed to be the best marksman in the
state and the strongest man physically. He married
Asenath Goff, who died at Joliet in 1841, while his
death occurred at Alpena, Michigan, when he was
eighty years of age.

__

I

6t4Az

FLORIDA

Oscar Bliss Smith, accompanying his parents on
their westward removal, pursued his education in the
schools of Chicago and of Beloit, Wisconsin, to a large
extent. He is a high-school graduate and for a time
was a college student and has received much private
instruction of great value. When very young he de-
voted considerable time to farming in Michigan and
Wisconsin and thus early started out in the business

world. He was al
keeping in Chicago
when a young man
Peak, attracted by
of Colorado. He

Iso engaged in clerking and book-
for a number of years and in I860,
of twenty-three, he went to Pike's
the gold discoveries in that section
then returned to join the army at

Chicago, enlisting on the 2d of August, 1861, as a
private in McClellan's Dragoons. He was soon pro-
moted to the rank of corporal, sergeant and acting
lieutenant. While on duty he sustained injuries from
which he has since suffered and was discharged as
incurable in 1862. He then went to Manitowoc, Wis-
consin, but did not feel that his usefulness as a soldier
was over and reenlisted, becoming an aid to the adju-
tant of the Thirty-second Wisconsin Infantry, which
regiment numbered fourteen hundred and seventy-five
men. In that connection Mr. Smith had plenty of
hard work until the regiment's numbers were greatly
reduced by hard fighting. He was promoted from the
ranks to the position of second lieutenant for merito-
rious service and was discharged at the close of the war
as first lieutenant. He participated in the grand review
in Washington, where thousands of victorious Union
troops marched through the streets of that city, and was
mustered out June 12, 1865, after which he was sent
to Milwaukee, where he was paid off and discharged
on the I6th of June.
After the close of the war Mr. Smith purchased the
Manitowoc (Wis.) Tribune, which he published suc-
cessfully for four years. He then sold the paper and
removed to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1869. There he
engaged in the book, stationery and printing business
for six years and again met with substantial success,
but owing to impaired health he sought a change of
climate and removed to South Orange, New Jersey,
where he published the South Orange Bulletin for seven
years. He was then appointed superintendent of con-
struction on the Narrow Gauge Railroad, the building
of which had just been begun. This was in 1882. The
line was to extend from Jacksonville to St. Augustine,
the principal part of the capital being supplied by
Walter Lyon of St. Augustine and his brother, Amos
Lyon, of New York. They sold out when the road was
in running order to Jerome Green and after his death
the road was purchased by H. M. Flagler, was con-
verted into a standard gauge and today constitutes a
part of the road that is one of the wonders of the
world. In 1884 Mr. Smith purchased lots and began
Vol. II-2

building houses in St. Augustine and during most of
the time through the intervening period to the present
he has been actively engaged in business. After Walter
Lyon went to California and there passed away Octo-
ber 5, i885, Mr. Smith began the construction of the
Lyon building, which he completed a year later. He
was at the head of a large wholesale business for some
years, at the end of which time he sold and published
the Daily News but at length disposed of that paper
to the Evening Record. He has since been manager
of the Lyon building, owned by a corporation, of which
he has been the president since I890.
Mr. Smith has not only figured prominently in
journalistic and business circles but has also been recog-
nized as one of the political leaders of the state. He
has always been a stalwart republican and for fifteen
years was engaged in the publication of republican
papers. At the present time there is no republican
organization and Mr. Smith, like other fair-minded
and progressive citizens, supports the candidates whom
he thinks best qualified for office. He has not been
very active as an office holder but his opinions have
carried weight in party councils. In I888, however,
he was elected senator in Florida and served in the

'upper house for four years. He has also been presi-
dent of boards of trade in several cities and at all times
has attempted to further public progress and improve-
ment. For some years he was secretary and treasurer
of the Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine.
Mr. Smith was married at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
December 15, 1863, to Miss Huldah Ellen Lyon, a
daughter of Walter Lyon, whose family numbered
nine children, four of whom are yet living. Her par-
ents were both natives of Vermont and could trace
their lineage back to ancestors who came to America
on the Mayflower and further back to crowned heads
of England. Amos Maynard Lyon, a well known
capitalist of New York, now more than ninety years
of age, is her father's brother. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
hold membership in the Presbyterian church and for
nearly thirty years he has been an elder in the Memorial
Presbyterian church of St. Augustine and an earnest
worker in the Sunday school when his health has per-
mitted. His influence has always been on the side of
right, progress, truth and reform and his labors have
been an element for public benefit for many years. His
efforts in journalistic circles made him widely known
and aside from regular newspaper work he wrote many
poems, which he preserved and published in book form
of two hundred and twenty-two pages on the Ist of
July 1910o, under the title, "Poems for the Home."
The edition was simply for distribution among his
friends and not for sale. Suffering from physical dis-
ability since the war, Mr. Smith has found his writing
a source of great interest to him when he could not

b

FLORIDA

very well be otherwise

has been

one of broad

engaged.
usefulness

His life, however,
and worth and St.

Till engines

of death thundered harmlessly there,

Stands

the fortress

Augustine numbers him among her prominent and rep-

Fort Marion.

resentative

residents.

This sketch would be incomplete if

ure to add an example

O, weird are the tales

there were

of Mr. Smith's poetic talent

the "Old

.Sergeant" can

Uncanny the dungeons he exhibits so well;
And the sentinel owl at night on the wall

and we therefore append two of his interesting poetical
productions.

Utters

ear-rending

And a spirit,

shrieks, bravest

hearts to appall;

'tis said, doth inhabit the place

Where-methinks it is truly the Spirit of

THE OLD

Stands

FORTRESS.

the fortress

Peace-

Fort Marion.

All silent and

grim frowning

Where the billows the

Where

down

o'er the

memories of centuries

the palm ever gracefully bends to th

With the music of ages

singing

mid its

deep,
s keep;
e breeze
leaves;

While the roar of old ocean, as it falls on the shore,

Seems

to waken

Stands

the echo, "nevermore! nevermore !"
the fortress Fort Marion.

Here

a strange

With an odor

Little chapel where I
of incense pervading

Here, voice of the mission

)ious souls
it yet;

priest uttered his

prayer

And the choir sang Laus Deo in the close stifled air;

Here, where hearts grown aweary

Went

gently to

Stands

on life's thorny

rest till the great judgment day,

the fortress

Fort Marion.

Where

the Spaniards

first gazed

on this thrice

blessed

land:

List the voiced

and fears,

groanmgs

cheers

Where

warnor

and priest with

Step't ashore neath the palm

a stout-hearted band

trees,

with hearts

tuned

praise,

That reverberate still thro' the long fateful years,

As the sea breezes

sweep o'er the battlements tall

And the waves' rhythmic beat on the outermost wall

And the

blessing

of heaven

sought, for all

coming

Where the first of a people so mighty to be
Here called the land "Florida" on low bended knee,

Tell that Life, thro' all ages,

Or ever this

Sta

is laden

with care :-

thought is overwhelming, 'tis w
inds the fortress Fort Marion.

here

Stands

the fortress

Fort Marion.

Where the palm
And shimmering

tree is waving to-night in the& breeze
moonbeams illume summer seas;

Came

hither

strong

Brave men full of ho

Came

men from afar o'er the tide,
)pe with fair ones at their side

hither for homes by the deep sounding sea,

struggle with dangers and learn to be free.
the battles they fought, 0, the trials and care

Where the city is sleeping all peaceful around
And the spell of tranquility pervading profound,
Bids Memory range on the wings of the night,
With rust-eaten cannon and the old moat in sight,

Stands

the fortress

Fort Marion.

In those

years

far away!

For their monument-there

Stands

the fortress

Fort Marion.

Where

summer winds

And the sunshine doth

Where the red

men's

war-cry was

heard with

affright,

And the

scream

of the panther added gloom to the

Where the hiss of the serpent in thickets near by
Told only too surely that one smitten must die;

Where

peace

cont4

sway
And brotherly love

Let it truly

be .said,

Where they learn
Stands

blow and bright

flowers

bloom,

ever dispel winter's gloom;
entment aye hold their blest

is the rule of the day;

as the age

War no mor
the fortress

s go by,
re, and all enmities die,
Fort Marion.

Where

the settler scant substance obtained

And often one's life blood discolored the soil,

Stands

the fortress

for his toil

THE ROMANCE OF

Fort Marion.

MIGHTY

ACHIEVEMENT.

Where the

years

multiplied and in

each changing

stage-
Camp, settlement, village and city-the

In the passing of the
The varying vicissiti

Yet romance of the

centuries

ides

fair Florida has known

that have to wonder

ancient days

grown.

is told in.weird tales,

Saw constant
Awaited the

progression, while ever

strongest,

where'er

And a pleasing legend handed down through centuries
prevails.

he dared

And battlements grew, builded strong and with

care,

Brave Ponce de Leon was a

knight of eminent degree,

* I -
t
I

FLORIDA

Who dared the dangers

of the deep

He led the way to this great

and the evils

none

hero bold and true,

He gazed far out
had sailed,

He slept

above

upon the bay where the first his ships

he very spot where the warrior had

And ours the
may view.

right to hold the light that all the world

assailed

The Indian

braves

and drove them

back again and

Courage

to use the strength

one hath, the will

to do

and dare-

These be

the qualities

that win,

here, there and

every-

where.

again,
Where poisoned
and pain.
The ocean surf

arrows

on the

filled the sky singing of

outer

forth the

death

same

Love adds
a spring
That to his

fine fuel to the flame,

and the

lover sought

sweet tone

It sang

aging limbs the

strength, the

joys of youth

might bring.

of yore-even

now it sang

gone.
Enraptured with the lovely

scene

as it had

and with the balmy

He found

a land, if

not the

spring,

where men their

years prolong,
Where gladness dwells

in the hearts of all and the joys

He said: "I'll build a refuge and a thousand here shall
share

of life
Sacred tl

Cherished

belong.
he spot where

This beauty in a lovely home

he first stood,

memory

first ruler

and that

acquire;
Where the

of his brave

climate is so genial

and health and

as to fill the

strength

heart's

desire.

This home shall bear the

True manliness,

the richest

gift that

ever blessed our

hero's name,

a monument for

race,
Wds his in rare abundance, and to this the

Of love to Go'
to be
The Finder of

Then,
free,
May a

here's

d and his

fellowmen, and he

added grace
rave his all

fair Florida, a beauteous flowery lea.

to Ponce

who tread this

Four centuries!

de Leon,

sunn

How much

the noble,

brave

y soil be proud to emulate

of life in these four hun-

So men shall

pass by."
The home was
blest retreat

From the cold and

bless old Ponce

built and millions

de Leon forever as

since have found

storms of wintry clime

mid lux-

uries complete.
Then next, the builder turned to make a highway
and grand,

That men might reach

more easily the blessed

great

Florida

dred years!

generations come and go with cares and hopes

and fears,
But Florida remains the same as when the

And blest the soil

and gave it

fame, a

swee

Hero came
t, romantic

name.

centuries hence!

great deeds,
Accomplish work the
the seeds.

We have

been shown

Forgotten

world

then unless

requires,

what man can do, let

we do

sow

us consider

And the years flew by while

wisely th
As often o
unselfish

the builder built

more

tan he knew-

Occurs

when

He extended his
thousands own

The Builder

quite equals

the good we seek is

he built more homes

the Finder

many

in the heroism

shown.

One found a home for the love

he had

a darling

over the

The other

built for the lasting

of millions

The mighty

work

that men have done and to our

to be.

children tell

of five hundred

complete,
A tale that makes
ing- feat.

the world

miles of changes

wrought

awake-a wondrous,

can not all be great

but each

may surely

And do the good that comes to hand as the years go
fleeting by.

This latest

was convinced

that here

was lasting

he second
soil;--

came this

he trod the

sacred

He went to work and gave his best, as every true man
should.

Where.

Ponce

de Leon led his braves, this

one began

his toil.

And his achievement stands today unequalled
earth:

o'er the

band.

thee!

Their

FLORIDA

Romantic? Yes,
worth!
'Tis not for self
done-
He seeks reward
itself is won.

,and better still, it has true, lasting

he still toils on

where greatness

life is nearly

comes

when

heaven

COURTLAND BUCKMAN.

Real-estate activity

stands

indisputably

as one of

the strong sources of a city's growth, improvement
and adornment and the men who are active in that
field of labor have much to do with public progress,
controlling and directing the character of the work
accomplished for the city's benefit. Prominent in this
connection is Courtland Buckman, who for almost
eighteen years has handled Jacksonville property, ne-
gotiating many important realty transfers and winning
a large clientele. He was born December 8, 1862, in
Madison, Florida, where his mother had taken refuge
during the Civil war. The father, Thomas E. Buck-
man, removed with the family to Jacksonville, in which
city his children, of whom Courtland Buckman was
the third son, were reared and educated. After at-
tending the public schools Courtland Buckman, at the
age of twenty-one became deputy to his father, who
was then filling the position of county clerk of Duval
county, and upon the establishment of the criminal
court of that county in 1885 he was appointed by the
governor as the first clerk of that court, in which
capacity he continued until October, 1887. He then
resigned and became connected with, the mercantile
business in Daytona, Florida, where he not only won a
prominent position in business circles but after six
months' residence there became an acknowledged
power in political affairs through his election as mayor
of the town, serving for one term.
In June, 1894, Mr. Buckman returned to Jackson-
ville and for a year thereafter was connected with the
Singer Manufacturing Company, at the end of which
time he turned his attention to the real-estate busi-
ness, in which he has since engaged, ranking now as
one of the leading real-estate men of the city. He is
thoroughly conversant with property values, antici-
pating a possible rise or diminution in price, and so
conducts his interests that buyers and sellers are alike
satisfied while there is accorded to him the legitimate
and well earned profits of his labor. In February,
1908, Mr. Buckman completed, on the southwest cor-
ner of Forsyth and Hogan streets, Jacksonville, what
is known as the Buckman building, the first strictly
fireproof building ever constructed in Jacksonville.
It is built of steel and concrete, is five stories in height,

is one of the most substantial of Jacksonville's new
improvements, and located as it is, in the heart of the
business center, diagonally across the street from the
Federal building, or postoffice, it is one of the most
desirable business and office buildings in the city and
is a monument to Mr. Buckman's foresight and busi-
ness acumen. Mr. Buckman is one of the directors of
the Florida National Bank.
Mr. Buckman married Miss Mamie A. Berne, of
Cincinnati, Ohio. They are well known socially and
are communicants of St. John's Episcopal church.
Mr. Buckman is a member of the Board of Trade,
the Seminole Club, the Country Club and the Florida
Yacht Club, serving two years as its commodore, and
his attractive social qualities render him popular wher-
ever he is known.

DAVID R. DUNHAM.

David R. Dunham, who since 191o has been actively
engaged in the practice of law in St. Augustine, has
in that short time built up a general practice of envi-
able proportions which connects him with important
litigation before the courts of the state. He is a na-
tive of St. Augustine and a member of an old and dis-
tinguished family which settled here in 1830o. Born
December 29, 1886, he is a son of David L. and Lillie
(O'Hern) Dunham, of whom separate mention is
made. He has two brothers living, Donald and
Facio O.
David R. Dunham was reared under the parental
roof and grew to boyhood in this city, where he
graduated from the high school and" subsequently ma-
triculated in the University of the South at Sewanee,
Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1907 with the
degree of B. A. Subsequently he studied law for one
year at the University of South Carolina and devoted
another year to the same studies at Washington and
Lee University, from which he graduated in the year
19o09, being thereupon admitted to the Florida bar.
He at first located in Jacksonville, where he practiced
for a year but subsequently returned to his native city,
where he opened an office in 19gIo, succeeding to the
practice of the late Albert H. Mickler. His success is
the best evidence of his capability and in the short time
since he has located here he has secured an extensive
practice. He shows natural discrimination and his
pleas are characterized by terse logic, lucid presenta-
tion and a thorough understanding of the questions
involved. His political affiliation is with the demo-
cratic party and he has thoroughly acquainted himself
with the principles of the organization and takes an
important part in its local councils. He is an enthusi-

FLORIDA

astic young man, aggressive'
present attainments are any
store for him, a remarkably
his.

and energetic, and if
indication of what is
successful career will

JOHN SEWELL.

The city of Miami in behalf of its business and pub-
lic interests owes a great and lasting debt to John
Sewell, who since pioneer times has actively identified
himself with its growth and progress, leaving the im-
press of his work and personality upon community
history. He has developed here a large and well man-
aged mercantile enterprise, conducted under the firm
name of John Sewell &. Brother, while he has also
taken a conspicuous part in politics and in the pro-
motion of all movements of a constructive character.
He was born in Elbert county, Georgia, July 20, 1867,
and is a son of Dr. Jeremiah W. Sewell, a practicing
physician and surgeon, who brought his family from
Georgia to Florida and settled in Kissimmee.
John Sewell was reared in Elbert county and was
nineteen years of age when he moved with his parents
to Florida. He began his active career in connection
with the Florida East Coast Railway as foreman and
superintendent during the construction of the line from
Jacksonville to Miami, in the employ of J. S. Oliver,
who had a contract for the building of the road. About
1891 he left the employ of Mr. Oliver and, taking a
responsible position with the Florida East Coast Rail-
way, superintended the construction of about seventy
miles of track from Daytona to Rockledge. He was
later transferred to the.hotel construction department
under the contracting firm of McGuire & McDonald,
the builders of all the Florida East Coast hotels, and
as foreman under them he helped to construct The
Royal Poinciana and The Breakers at Palm Beach,
where he had charge of grading the extensive grounds
on the Poinciana reservation. Here he remained for
several years and when the Royal Palm Hotel was
begun in Miami was again transferred, coming to this
city in charge of the excavation work. By March, 1896,
he had begun excavating where the Royal Palm was
to be erected and when this was completed was placed
in charge of the grading gang, cutting out the right
of way and grading streets and laying paving. Mr.
Sewell in the interests of McGuire & McDonald
cleared, opened up and paved a number of the princi-
pal streets on the original townsite, the work being
done with Dade county crushed rock. It was he who
originated the idea of using this local product in
crushed form for pavements and building purposes and
in this way accomplished an important work in inaug-

rating a new home industry.

Altogether Mr.

Sewell

was in the employ
interests for seven

of the
years,

Florida East Coast
from 1892 to 1899.

Railway
In the

meantime he had established his residence in Miami
and opened up a business enterprise in the city. In
association with his brother, Everest George Sewell,
he opened a shoe store, which was the second business
enterprise founded in the new community. Mr. Sewell
left his brother in charge of the concern as manager,
to continue as such as long as he himself was engaged
in the hotel construction work. However, in 1899
he resigned his position with the Florida East Coast
Hotel Company in order to concentrate all of his at-
tention upon his other business affairs. The establish-
ment, founded with a capital of one thousand, five
hundred dollars, was conducted as a shoe store only
for. some time, a line of clothing and men's furnish-
ings beingafterward added. Under the name of John
Sewell & Brother the business has made a continued
growth during the years and the firm has met with
gratifying success, each year increasing their stock
until they now own one of the largest mercantile enter-
prises in southern Florida. During the fifteen years
that John Sewell & Brother have been in business their
sales have amounted to more that a million dollars.
Mr. Sewell has proved himself a capable, energetic
and discriminating business man and the substantial
and steady growth of the concern is in a large meas-
ure due to him. Possessed of an aggressive and dar-
ing spirit, he has, moreover, the power of carrying
forward his plans to successful completion and as a
result has worked his way upward, winning a degree
of prosperity which influences in an important way
general commercial expansion.
Mr. Sewell married, June i6, 1897, Miss Jessie
Byrd Keller, of Daytona, a native of Alabama. Three
children were born to their union: Jaqueline, who
died at the age of four; John Jackson, aged eleven;
and Crozier Keller, aged-ten. It is not alone as a busi-
ness man, however, that Mr. Sewell has done splendid
work for Miami, for since the early days of the city's
foundation he has taken a conspicuous part in pub-
lic affairs, proving his loyalty and good citizenship by
constructive public service. From 1901 to 1907 he
served as county commissioner and during the time
was largely instrumental in bringing about many
needed improvements, including the securing of good
roads for Dade county. To the duties of the office
of county commissioner he added in 1903 those of
mayor and for four years served in that capacity, giv-
ing to the people of the city the services of a capable
executive, a far-sighted and able business man and
a discriminating politician. Beyond all question his
life has been successful, for its activities have touched
and affected only those business affairs which are im-
portant and constructive in character and those politi-

FLORIDA

cal and public interests

which

are entirely honorable

There he conducted business for two years, when with

and worthy.

Miami

He is, therefore, a valued

in the ranks

of her

progressive

addition

citizens.

a capital
Greenfield
in April,

one hundred

venture-he

dollars-his

started for

profits in the

Leesburg,

Indiana,

At that point he opened a harness

WILLIAM B.

The life record which an

shop, which he carried on
and turned his attention

BARNETT.

American

which he continued

citizen holds

highest esteem and honor is that of a man who, in spite

of obstacles and difficulties,

can prove

character and ability and win for

of prominence in
only in attaining
moting public pi
William B. Barne

which

his worth of

himself a position

his activities are

of value

individual success, but also in pro-

prosperity.

Such was the record of

*tt, formerly president

of Jacksonville,

tional Bank,
thrown upon

which is

at the age

his own resources

of the National

now the Barnett Na-

of fourteen

years

and steadily

was

worked

to Kansas,

cantile

where

enterprise u

until 1854, when he

sold out

to general merchandising,

for four

years.

he successfully c
ntil I870, having

purchased and laid out the

He next removed

:onducte
in the

town of Hiawatha

where he conducted business as
until he made his entrance into

January, 187(
ganized the f
watha under

Company
Morrill,
Kansas

y

business

the firm name

, one of the partners
who subsequently se

;a a mer-
meantime
t, Kansas,

a general merchant
banking circles. In

;s associates
of Kansas
Barnett, M<

E. N.

;rved

as governor

and congressman from that state.

his way upward, advancing step

by step

until his even-

later president

is now conducted

paced
lations
figure

energy
i. He

carried him into prominent business re-

was recognized in

in financial

circles

his day as a leading
unhout the state of

name

a few years Mr.

After

Barnett

withdrew

from that institu-

Mr. Barnett was born September

place being
Virginia. H4

.Nicholas

county,

sonville, Florida.
further operations

2, 1824,

Virginia,

e was a son of William

Barnett,

private
name c

in the banking line, he opened
e Ist of May, 1877, under the fil
of Jacksonville, continued busing

county,

Pennsylvania,

under this name as a private Bank until April

became a prominent stone and

the bridges

Gauley

rivers

structures

war.

brick contractor, build-

for the government over New and

in Virginia, which remained

from 1823-4
Mr. Barnett

substantial

destroyed during the
soldier in the War of

when it received

National
president,
October 2
Charter c

Charter

Bank of Jacksonville, with
which position he retained
!x, I903. At the expiration
on April 15, 90o8, the old

and became

Mr. Barnett as

* National
went into

1812. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane

Murray, was

also a

native

Pennsylvania, and a daughter

emigrated
to the Re

from Scotland

evolutionary

of James Murray, who

States

war and served

prior

as a captain in

the Barnett

ness, taking over a majority
tional Bank of Tacksonville.

rational
of the

tew Bank was started in
Mr. W. B. Barnett. T

Bank began
assets of the

ie name was changed
honor of the original
he bank is capitalized

the Colonial army.

In 1825

William

Barnett,

at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars and has re-

removed with

his family

and it was there that his son and namesake was reared,

sources
one of

the safest

and most conservative institutions

acquiring
schools.

a good, practical education in the public

The father turned

his attention to the live-

south of the Mason
owns its own bank

and Dixon

Line.

The institution

an imposing and attrac-

stock business

industry

tive structure with a colonade front

of the Colonial

close attention accumulated a comfortable fortune,

lost most of

indorsing

n

packer, who was at about that time,
Mississippi.

Barnett

college.
plans a

The father's

nd necessitated

otes for
drowned

a large
in the

was at that time preparing
losses forced him to change

entrance into

the business

style. It is thoroughly eq
and is a fireproof building.
been a most commendable

tempered
depositors

quipped, has splendid vat
The policy maintained 1
Ie one. Progressiveness

'y a safe conservation
is carefully guarded.

ilts

interest

joyed a continuous period of prosperity and the results
achieved prove the value of the business methods

was but fourteen years

a four years'
and saddlery

saved a small

sum of

apprenticeship at

trade
money

and equipping a little harness

and during

the harness-
that period

Susea in opening
Greenfield, Ohio.

employed.
On the 9th of November,
Mr. Barnett was united in

for more

life's journey

I849, at Leesburg,
marriage to Miss
half century they

Sarah

traveled

were separated in

Bank

^

]

V .

A. r

FLORIDA

the death of the wife on the 8th of April, 190go. The
children of this marriage are the sons, W. D. and B. H.
Barnett, who are now majority stockholders in the
Barnett National Bank. Mr. Barnett gave his political
allegiance to the Republican party and while in Kansas
represented his district in the state senate, in which
he made a most creditable record. For nearly two-
thirds of a century he was identified with the Masonic
fraternity, being initiated into the lodge at Goshen, In-
diana, in 1846. He was a member of the Royal Arch
chapter and the Mystic Shrine. His was a notable
record of a successful and honorable achievement.
For many years prior to his death he lived practically
retired, his sons relieving him of the active business
management of the bank. He died October 21, 1903,
in his eightieth year. One of his achievements in
Jacksonville was the building of the old Masonic
Temple. In recognition of his services to Masonry,
Jacksonville Lodge 187, A. F. & A. M., has been named
the W. B. Barnett Lodge.

CHARLES A.

CARSON.

Charles A. Carson stands as a central figure in the
business, political and educational life of Kissimmee
and Osceola county, his activities touching and influ-
encing the general advancement and development
along these lines. He is known as a capable organizer
and promoter, his enterprise and executive ability hav-
ing been factors in the foundation of many of the most
important industrial, commercial and financial con-
cerns in the city and his business discrimination and
foresight elements in their continued growth. His
name is a synonym for progress and for that public
spirit which makes individual prosperity a valuable
public asset. He was born in Reynolds, Georgia, and
after completing a public-school education entered
Mercer University in Macon, from which he was
graduated. He afterward engaged in teaching in
Reynolds and Butler, Georgia, and he followed that
occupation until 1883, when he came to Florida. He
settled immediately in Kissimmee and at once identi-
fied himself with business life by organizing the Waters
& Carson Grocery Company, Incorporated, with which
he is still connected. He organized the State Bank
of Kissimmee in 190go and has been its president since
that time, the remarkable growth of the institution
being largely due to him. The officers at the time of
organization were as follows: President, C. A. Car-
son; vice president, J. M. Lee; and cashier, N. B.
Carson. This is one of the most solid and safe finan-
cial institutions in this section of the state. It was
organized with a capital of fifteen thousand dollars,

which has since been increased to fifty thousand, the
present surplus being thirty-two thousand, five hun-
dred dollars. The amount on deposit is two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars and four per cent interest
is paid on all savings accounts. The bank occupies
a fine modern two story brick building, seventy-five
by seventy feet in dimensions-a valuable addition to
the business section of the city. The present officers
are: C. A. Carson, president; John M. Lee, vice presi-
dent; M. Katz, second vice president; and N. B. Car-
son, cashier. The board of directors is as follows:
C. A. Carson, John M. Lee, N. B. Carson, N. C. Bryan,
M. Katz, HI Fleming and E. L. Lesley. In addition to
the enterprises above mentioned Mr. Carson is known
in Kissimmee as the founder of the Kissimmee Lum-
ber Company, of which he is president, and as
president of the Osceola Hardware Company, and the
Kissimmee Phone Company. He was in addition one
of the incorporators of the American National Bank of
Tampa and one of the organizers of the Florida Na-
tional Bank of Jacksonville--connections proving con-
clusively the scope and importance of his business
identifications.
Beneficial and far-reaching as has been his work
along business lines, however, it forms only one of his
varied interests, for he is not only a powerful force
in county and state politics but he is one of the leaders
in the promotion of the cause of education in Florida.
He has devoted much time and active labor to school
affairs and during the three years of his service as
county superintendent of schools accomplished con-
structive and progressive work, having graded the pub-
lic schools before the state law was passed requiring it.
While in the senate he aided in the passing of the state
high-school law and served as a member of the com-
mittee on education for six years. He was for a simi-
lar period of time trustee of the University of Florida
and is now in the sixth year of his service as president
of the board of trustees of Columbia College in Lake
City. He has had a long and distinguished public
career. He was treasurer of Osceola county for three
years immediately following the formation of the
county, serving from 1887 to I89g. From 1893 to
1900 he was president of the Kissimmee city council
and in 1896 was elected to the state senate. He repre-
sented the nineteenth senatorial district, comprising
Orange and Osceola counties, and during the eight
years of his able service was the instigator of much
progressive legislation, aiding in the passage of the
railroad commission bill, the first primary election law
and the state high-school law.
Mr. Carson married Miss Anna Bryan, a daughter
of John M. and Louisa M. (Norton) Bryan, of Kis-
simmee, the former state senator and railroad commis-
sioner. Mrs. Carson's mother is a daughter of

FLO

RIDA

Captain Nathan Norton, of
Mrs. Carson has two brothers,

the Confederate army.
William James and Na-

than P., both of whom have served in the United States

senate, the latter being a member of the

present con-

His religious
although his

faith is

that of the Baptist church, and

professional duties

are making

demand upon his energies, he always finds time for
work in behalf of the church and for the civic welfare,

gress.

five child
Elizabeth

Mr. and

en:

Mrs. Carson

became the parents

James M., an attorney in Jacksonville;

B., who lives at home; Charles A., Jr., a stu-

earnestly
ter of civ

supporting all
ic virtue and

I movements
civic pride.

which

are a mat-

dent at Colorado College,

Colorado ;

Anne

who is

attending

the same

institution; and Inez, who is a

student in Columbia College, Lake City.

is a member of

Mr. Carson

the Baptist church and has

deacon in it for the past twenty-seven years.

is scarcely a

been a
There

phase of legitimate activity in this sec-

tion of the state which his wise and well directed labor

has not affected in a vital way and the city

ness policies,

in its busi-

its educational institutions, its standards

and ideals has profited
work and personality.

greatly by the influence of his
Kissimmee is proud to number

him among her citizens and he in turn is proud

achievements of the city with which

interests

for almost thirty

of the

he has allied

years.

FRANK

Frank

L. Mayes,

Pensacola Journal, has been a factor in the upb

L. MAYES.

and principal

and development
the columns of h
ures and through
for the general g

Illinois,

December

of the city through his
is paper of- progressive

of the
building

advocacy in
public meas-

cooperation in many movements

od. He
x6, 1873,

and Jennie (Johnston)

who moved from Illinois
Dakota.

was born near

Rockford,

and is a son of James

Mayes,

the former a farmer,

to Iowa and thence

to South

The eldest

JAMES

Mayes
mother
Dakota.

BOOTH.

of a family

was obliged at the
with the operation
He attended the

winter months

James
enjoying

Booth,
also a

city attorney of

large and

was born in Goshen,

growing

New Hampshir

1884, a son of Charles A. and Celestia S.

who are also residents of St.

was afforded liberal

tended
pleted

the University

St. Petersburg,

private practice,
e. December 24.

(Carr

Petersburg.

educational advantages.

r) Booth,
The son
He at-

of Maine, in which he com-

his law course with the class of 1910,

same year

came to

upon the general

continues.
conveyances

St. Petersburg, where he
practice of law, in which

He has also made a si
and corporation law,

specialty c
and his

those branches make constant demand

his ability

an envia
Florida

in that connection

reputation.

and the
entered
he still

)f titles and
practice in

upon his time,

has gain

He is now attorn

Bank & Trust Company, and in

ed for him
ey for the
1911 was

elected city attorney, to which position he was again

chosen in 1912.
new charter f

government.

In his

official capacity

for the St. Petersburg

While the

he drew up the
admission form

practice of law he regards

as his real life work and to it gives

his time and

Home

attention,

the major

he is also a stockholder

Security Company and the

and in this

of five

children,

. of thirteen
the homestead

district

schools

way acquired hi

Fran

to help his
d in South
during the
s prelimin-

ary education, supplementing this afterward by a
years' course in Dakota University at Mitchell.

earned his

own education,

unaided by any

three
He
Sout-

side help in paying his expenses through the university.
For two years after leaving school he taught school,
but in I896 became a reporter on the Pensacola Times,

thus beginning

business,

his identification

in which he

influential a place
cola he returned

with the newspaper

since won so powerful and
eighteen months in Pensa-

to South Dakota

and there became

part owner of the Mitchell Gazette, with which he was
connected until 1899, when he again came to Florida,

settling
A short
est in tl

in Pensacola, where
time afterward he be

he Pensacola

the Journal I

paper one of

Journal

he has since remained.

aught a controlling

and is now

publishingg Company.

ublisht ing Company
the best in Florida

size of the city and

the trade t

finest in the United States.

leverage

he has to a

inter-

president

He has made

and, considering the
territory, one of the

With this

extent been

power as a

responsible

the turn in public sentiment which has made

in the

Florida Bank

Trust Company, which he represents in a legal capacity.

Mr. Booth has

of the Florida

had military experience as a member

National

Guard,

rank of second lieutenant.

pendent
ternities,

in which he holds the

He belongs to the Inde-

Order of Odd Fellows and to two college fra-

the Phi Alpha Delta and

Alpha Tau Omega.

a great
greater

and which will

in the future

He has conducted a fearless

gressive newspaper, has

stand

for what he

Pensacola

make

and ag-
:e a firm

questions

not been afraid to take

believes

to be right upon

involving municipal rights or privileges or upon polit-
ical issues, never allowing material considerations

to influence his point
sentative journalistic

of view.

He has other

interests throughout the

repre-
south,

while

ble

editor

owner

Frank

~^

P

FLORIDA

being principal
he is connected

owner of the Meridian

Dispatch,

with business interests of

as a member of the Chamber of Commerce;

he was president

from 1906

Mr. Mayes married,

Kingsbery,
the parents

of Hartford,

of four

to 1907.

December

25, 1899,

South Dakota,

children,

Howard

Albert, Margarita and William Kingsbery.
Mr. Mayes is a member of the Osceola and
Clubs and fraternally is connected with the
of Pythias and the Knights of the Maccabees.

Miss Lois

and they are

Charles
Socially
the Elks
Knights
He was

also for two years a member of the South Dakota

National

Guard.

He is

church and interested ii

Association.

Press

In 1912 he w
Association.

a member of
n the Young

the Presbyterian

Men's

ras elected preside
In political cir

Christian
ent of the
cles, too,

he is well known and prominent, giving stanch alle-

giance to

the democratic

vate citizen anm

progressive

party and working

d as a newspaper edit
democratic doctrines.

as a prn-

tor for the spread

In 19o8

public schools.

Pensacola
of which

After completing the

studies he learned the

usual course of

printing business, with which

he has ever since been successfully identified.

he purchased

Times

Courier,

an excellent weekly journal,
entire county in a thorough

The excellence

culation
secured

of the paper

which he

In 1899
has made

covering the news of the
and interesting manner.

has brought it a large cir-

and Mr. Moore's energy and enterprise have
for it a profitable advertising patronage, so

that it ranks today among
this section of the state.
Mr. Moore married, June

important

12, 1907,

journals

Miss Eva Lillian

Keeling, and they became the parents of two children:
Za-Ida and Eva Lillian, who live at home. Mr. Moore

is a member of
is connected w
Masonic order.
democrat. As

the Methodist

Knights

church

and fraternally

of Pythias

In his political views he is a stanch

editor of the

in the direction

he was

sent as a Bryan delegate from the third congressional

district

at Denver,

of Florida to the

Colorado,

democratic convention held

and is a man whose

life have always

Times

Courier

is a

thought and opinion in
high moral character

merited

respect

of his fellow citizens.

and in 1912 he was a Wilson

delegate
member

to the Baltimore convention and was the only

delegation

who voted

Bryan for temporary chairman.

For several years

he has been chairman of the democratic executive

P. CARUTHERS.

committee for

ing
serve
colon

co

the administration o
d on the governor's

el.

and upbuilders

its most
business

congressional
f Governor

district. I
Gilchrist

staff with the rank of

imDerea among
Pensacola and

the real pri
stands today

and able citizens.

circles is most

commendable

3moters
among

His record in
. for he has

shown himself a man of resourceful ability,

unabating

suCce5

perous

energy and keen
ss and made his

whose

discrimination have gained

career

in all

respects

pros-

and successful.

Caruthers

has devoted his

entire

c

farming and stock-raising and while

,range
mak-

ing his home in Clearwater has a farm about two miles

east of the town
He was born F4

Florida,
(Phillips)
county, G

and is

and an
ebruary
a son

Caruthers,

eorgia.

dren when they
ter county, Flol
days were spen

orange grov
14, l849, in
of Samuel

were

e ot seven acres.
Sumter county,
and Mary Jane

natives of Burke

They were parents of seven chil-

left Georgia

a, about 1846.
in Sumter and

and removed to Sum-

Their remaining
Orange counties,

* but they passed away in the former county at an

advanced age.

The father made

farming

and stock-

OSCAR

Oscar
nalistic

C.. MOORE.

C. Moore, prominently connected

interests

of Marianna as editor ot

Courier, was born on a farm in

Georgia,

raising

his life work.

the Baptist

I with jour-
f the Times
October 17,

1874. He is a son of Andrew B. and Georgie (Smith)
Moore, natives of Georgia, who came to Florida in

i882 and located in M
gaged in railroading.
children: Lula, the dec
Jackson county; Omah,
C., of this review; and

Oscar

[arianna, where the father en-
To their union were born four

:eased

wife of J. B. Justiss, of
died in childhood: Oscar

Amos Green,

C. Moore was still a child

of Marianna.

when

he moved

He was

an active member

church and his political allegiance was

given to the democratic party, but

desired

office.

The grandfather

and became

in the new world,
I. P. Caruthers

settling

was

twelve children, seven
maturity, but only our
of the brothers, A. L.,

served
Florida

as soldiers
regiments.

war during the last

he never held

nor

of our subject was

the founder
in Georgia.

the eleventh
of whom r<

of the family

in
each

a family
ed years

subject is now living.
Walker, Iverton and

in the Civil war

Four
Albert,

as members

Caruthers was also

six months

of the struggle,

manhood

parents

to Jackson county

in Marianna, acquiring

and he grew to

his education in the

beef cattle

only a boy

for the Confederate army,

of fifteen years.

He was reared

although
in Sum-

*

FLORIDA

ter county and continued

about

seventeen

years

his residence there until

ago, when he came to what

tion and n
McAllister

slaves

prior to the Civil war.

is of English descent on both sides but the

is now Pinellas county and has

since been engaged

McAllister family

is of old

American

establishment.

in farming, stock-raising

ing an excellent tract

orange

of land

growing, hav-

two miles east of the

Her paternal great-grandfather, John Hatchett, was
born in England and had the distinction of attending

town devoted
tract planted

to general

oranges.

farming

and a seven acre

Both branches of his

business are now proving profitable,
tilled fields and carefully cultivated g

ductive of good crops. F
Caruthers has made his 1
water.
On the 3d of March,

ror the

past t

for his well
roves are pro-
hree years Mr.

lome in the town of Clear-

the wedding of Napoleon Bonaparte.

emigrated to the

American

family in the United State;
Hatchett, grandfather of th

Dr. and Mrs.

but their

generation is

ney G. Hatchett, of

Mr. Caruthers was

were eight

He afterward

colonies and founded the
s. His son was William
ie subject of this review.

M. Hatchett have passed

represented by

Navasota,

Texas.

away,

Captain Pinck-
In their family

children, of whom four daughters and two

united in

marriage

to Miss Elizabeth Matchett, who

sons survive, although Mrs. McAllister is the only one

was born in Georgia, January

19, 1850.

The follow-

residing

in Florida.

ing year her parents, William and
Matchett, who were also natives of

I Nancy (Collins)

Georgia,

Mrs. McAllister. acquired her education in the

removed

Academy,

from which she was graduated

to Sumter

county,

were passed.

the parents
Hillsboro c
Florida; J.

Florida, where their remaining

Mr. and Mrs.

of eight children:

country;

J. W.,

A., at home; B.

in this volume; F. Idella, the

a merchant
M., represent

Caruthers

became

now living in
of Webster,
ited elsewhere

wife of Captain

E. B.

Edy, of Nassau, Bahama islands; N. E., the wife
of Phil Blanton, of Hillsboro county; J. M., of

with highest honors in her

ward, when

she was

seventeen years

Dne month after-
of age, she mar-

ried Joseph Robert Cook, a prominent merchant of that
city. They resided in Atlanta and Fort Gaines,

Georgia, for
leaving one
passed away

r

fourteen

years,

when Mr. Cook died,

son, Harry Hatchett Cook, who has
. Two years after the death of Mr.

his widow married James T. McAllister, of Fort

Orlando, Florida; and D. R.,

water.

a merchant

The religious faith of the family

of Clear-
is that of

Gaines,

Georgia,

families in that

a representative

state.

one of the oldest

Their married life continued

the Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Caruth-
ers has long held membership. His political belief

is that of the

cising his rig
in politics,
upon his bu
are bringing

democratic

,ht of

party,

franchise

preferring

Isiness

but aside from exer-

he has never been active

to concentrate

affairs,

him substantial

energies

which, capably directed,

success.

for four years, at the end of which time Mr. McAllister

passed

away,

leaving

sons:

James T., Jr., who

died at the age of three and a half years; and William

A., who is
Georgia M
In 1898

Maimi, where

bered

sixteen years

military

Academy

and a student in the

at College Park,

Mrs. McAllister, then

she has since

a widow,

remained.

among the earliest settlers in the

but two years

Georgia.

came

is num-

city, which was

at the time of her arrival, and

since she has been

MRS. EMMA CORNELIA McALLISTER.

Mrs. Emma Cornelia McAllister,

who by her

cellent business judgment, her executive ability and her

great success has
ability in the field

prominent

done much to prove a woman's capa-
of business, is today one of the most

real-estate

dealers in

portant and valuable holdings
propertv. She is a native of Geo

near West
nelia Hatcl

Miami, controlling im-
in city and county
,rgia, having been born

Point, her maiden name being Emma (
iett. She is a daughter of Dr. James

Hatchett, a prominent physician

practiced

and surgeon,

his profession successfully

Point and Fort

served

as surgeon

Gaines.
in the

was in her maidenhood
father, William Cotton,
Troup county, Georgia,

During the Civil war he
Confederate army. His wife
Miss Louisa Cotton and her
was one of the pioneers of

where he had

a large

planta-

in its
she has

among

greatest

of the

business development. For many years past
been an extensive dealer in real estate in Miami

and the vicinity ai
ness judgment,
haustive energy,

business:
ties on

s.

She has

being possessed

tact and force
has built up a

of excellent busi-

as well

large

as mex-
growing

at all times a long list of proper-

the market and has made many profitable sales

to northern
All of her
principles a

1 people desiring to locate in the south.
affairs are conducted on strictly business

nd as

a result

she has amassed

a fortune

which any man might well

I

and achieved a success of

be proud.

She has acquired much valuable real estate

both within and without the

city and handles a great

deal of her own property, it being her custom to buy

outright, improve and sell.

vanous
groves,

times

owned

seven

In the past
al excellent

she has at
grapefruit

some of which she herself planted and devel-

oped, and in the course of her

business career she

W. S.,

]

.'
n~-f

7%

4-

FLORIDA

has disposed of

several large and

people who desired to invest in real
tion of the country.

member of the Elks Club,

enterprising in

he also

Mrs. McAllister has an attractive home on Twelfth

street,

native

stone,

and she

possesses

and while successful

business and progressive in citizenship,

the social qualities

1910,

s that make

Mr. Ahemrn

has made this a center of hospitality for her many

united in marriage to Miss Isabelle

Boston, of

Detroit,

friends in Miami.

She belongs to the Baptist church

Michigan, and they have one child, Mary

Catharine.

an active religious worker,

and is
in the
teacher

integrity gained the respect and
ates and in all the relations of 1

a capable, self-reliant and

affairs

of the

Sunday

taking great

interest

school, in which she is a

industry and

esteem of her associ-

ife

attractive

proven

woman.

herself

Jacksonville

citizens

counts

and regards

New England enterprise
Ahern is president of 1

vestment Company

and t

vice president of the City

one of its valued

that day fortunate which linked

with Florida resources. Mr.
he National Security & In-
:he Fosyth Realty Company;
Security Company, the Home

Telephone
Company;

Company

and the

secretary of the

ment Company;

Southern States

Grand

Refining

Boulevard Invest-

committee

JOHN J. AHERN.

of the city council; and

a member of the Knights of

Jacksonville's
representative i

proving

real-estate

circles

in John J. Ahern,

a forceful element in the city's

a worthy
labors are
growth and

Columbus.
church and

He is a member of the

in politics

Roman

is a democrat.

improvement. He was born

in Middletown, Connecti-

cut, September 1o,

1877, his parents

being William and

GEORGE

WHITING ALLEN.

Catharine (Murphy) Ahern.

After

acquiring

a good

public-school education in his native city he turned his

Broad,

varied

and important are the activities

to the grocery

tinued for several years

as traveling
Armour &

r business in which he
and then went upon the

salesman for the meat-packing

Company

and W. P. Sumner.

house of

was

which George Whiting

connected.

Allen, of

He has left the

quality for good upon the
interests of the city in t

Key West,

impress

social, busin

has been

of his individ-
aess and official

thus engaged

for several years

and it was he who

stands

as a leading

factor

in financial

circles as

established the butter

and cheese

department in the

south for Armour & Company, of which department
he was given charge, making it a paying enterprise.
Recognizing something of what the future had in

store for Jacksonville becau

ise

of its natural advan-

tages and the fact that the tide of settlement was

largely flowing

opened

been successfully engaged in that business.

dies both city property and

1902, he
has since
He han-

outside lands, now manag-

president of the First National Bank

West

of Ke

and there has been no movement instituted

social,

educational

through the past twenty years,
of George W. Allen has not beei

Moreover,

port of Key

that of any other

position

during the

McKinley and remained

y West
for the

of the city,

with which the name
a intimately associated.

for the

longer period than
was called to the

of President

as the incumbent of the

his interests from well appointed

Bisbee t
sonville

building.

No one more stanchly

or has firmer faith in

future than Mr.

preciative

Ahern, and

its inter

offices in the
supports Jack-
ests and in its

his fellow townsmen, ap-

of his attitude in this connection,

until its
Florid

native

abolishment by act of congress
a is proud to number Mr. Al

sons.

tember i,

He is

England ancestry,

descended

represented

in June, 1913.
len among her

from sturdy

in the Revolutionary

twice elected him to the city council,

of which he has

war. His grandfather was George Allen, a prominent

president pro tern

forth earnest effort to improve

paving

for four years.

He is

ever

lature as a colleague

system,

ten feet or

nessed his

arrival

For many years he conducted

a ness as a wholesale

served

of Gideon

state legis-
His father

profitable estates

estate in this sec-

built of the beautiful

popularity and high regard.
On the 8th of September,

She has by her own energy,

Mr. Ahern as

chairman of the

pavmg

attention

Catholic

he present generation.

southward,

a real-estate office

, in November,
in that city and

and material welfare

his service as collector of customs

extended over a
appointee. He

first administration

seeking

the city's improvement and is

His birth occurred in Jacksonville,

and widening its streets
si of sidewalks which si

citizen of Connecticut, who

His efforts are of a practical nature his abode
f tangible results. He is also a mem- Key West
street beautifying commission and a remaining

a native of Enheld,
1823. The year. 1852

He is likewise

FLORIDA

firm of Allen Brothers,

and as such

played

a leading

part in the commercial development of the city. He
was also mayor of Key \Vest, was special deputy col-
lector of customs and clerk in the United States district
court for the southern district of Florida. He passed
away October lo, 1891, his remains being laid to rest
in the Key West cemetery. William Smith Allen was
united in marriage to Mary Jane Sprague, who was
born at Lyons, Wayne county, New York, January
16, 1827, a daughter of Nehemiah Sprague. Her
death occurred at Ithaca, New York, September 12,
1869.
For a half century George W. Allen has been a
resident of Key West, coming to this city with his
parents in his boyhood days. In his youth he spent
six years in school at Ithaca, New York,-from 1863
until 1869-and a part of his education was also ob-
tained in the public schools of Jacksonville and of Key
West. In early manhood he held several official posi-
tions including that of deputy clerk of the circuit court
of the sixth judicial circuit of Florida. Later he was
deputy clerk of the United States court. While hold-
ing that position he studied law and in 1879 was ad-
mitted to the bar, since which time he has practiced to
a greater or less extent in Key West. However,
various other duties have devolved upon him. Even

before

his admission

to the bar he was elected, in

to the state senate from the twenty-fourth senatorial
district of Florida and in 1882 was reflected but re-
signed the office in 1884 for the purpose of devoting
his entire attention to his law practice and to the bank-
ing business, in which he had become interested. It
was in 1884 that he aided in the organization of the
Bank of Key West, serving as one of its directors
and as its cashier from that date until i891, when the
bank went out of existence. He organized the First
National Bank of Key West on the 24th of Decem-
ber, 1891, was elected its president and has since re-
mained in that position, directing its activities and
shaping its policy. He is likewise a director of the
Florida National Bank of Jacksonville and thus his
name has become a prominent one in connection with
financial interests in the state. In addition to super-
vising his banking affairs he has found time to devote
to public service and his official record is most com-
mendable, being characterized by the utmost fidelity
and capability in the discharge of his duties. In 1879
he was appointed deputy collector of internal revenue
in which capacity he continued for twelve years. In
1896 he was nominated as the republican candidate
for governor but declined the nomination. The fol-
lowing year President McKinley appointed him col-
lector of customs at the port of Key West. He enjoys
the distinction of holding the position longer than any
other appointee and was the last to serve in that con-

nection, the office passing out of existence on the 3oth
of June, 1913. In I9OO he was the republican can-
didate for secretary of state and in I908 received his
party's nomination for congress, while in 1912 he was
the republican candidate for congressman at large.
For many years he has been a member of the re-
publican state committee and was a member of the
notification committee in 19o8 that waited on James S.
Sherman and informed him of his nomination for the
vice presidency. In 1904 and again in 19o8 and 1912
he was a delegate to the republican national conven-
tions and is one of the foremost leaders of his party
in the state.
On May 26, 1880, Mr. Allen was united in marriage
to Miss Leonore Browne of Key West, who was born
in this city and comes of an old Virginia family rep-
resented in the Revolutionary war. Two children
have been born unto them, Mary Lilla and Genevieve,
the latter now the wife of Dr. William R. Warren, a
prominent physician and surgeon of Key West.
There is one child of that marriage, George Allen
Warren, now about two years of age.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Monroe County Bar
Association and of the Florida State Bar Association
and is president of the Florida State Bankers Asso-
ciation. He is a member and vestryman of St. Paul's
Episcopal church and belongs to the Masonic, Odd
Fellows and Elks lodges. He is a member of the
Metropolitan Club of New York; of the Metropolitan
Club of Washington, D. C.; of the Seminole Club of
Jacksonville; the Elks Club of Key West, and is a
member of Florida Red Cross board, the Florida His-
torical Society, the National Geographic Society and
the National Rivers and Water Ways Commission.
All these indicate the extent and scope of his interests
and his activities. He keeps informed upon all the
significant and vital questions of the day and is ever
arrayed on the side of progress and improvement. He
has wide acquaintance among the thinking men of the
country, especially along the Atlantic coast, and his
worth is acknowledged by all with whom he has co-
operated in efforts to promote social, intellectual,
political and moral progress and to secure the adop-
tion of higher ideals for the betterment of the in-
dividual, the community and the country.

WILLIAM B. OWEN.

For a third of a century William B. Owen has been
a member of the Jacksonville bar and has had im-
portant professional connections as shown in a large
and distinctly representative clientage and in his serv-
ice on the bench. New Jersey claims him as a native

FLORIDA

son, his birth having occurred June 17, 1855. His
college training was received at Princeton, where he
completed a classical course and was graduated with
the B. A. degree in 1876. With a foundation of good
literary training he began the study of law under Henry
C. Pitney, the present vice chancellor of the state of
New Jersey. In 1876 he came to Jacksonville for the
first time and from that year until 188o spent the
winter seasons in this city and the summer months in
St. Paul, Minnesota, where he still pursued his legal
studies.
In the last mentioned year Mr. Owen was admitted
to practice at the bar of Jacksonville and has since
been an active factor in legal circles here, represent-
ing a large clientage save through the period from
1888 until 1892, when he served upon the bench of
Duval county. His deductions were strictly fair and
impartial. He has wide knowledge of the law, both
in principle and precedent, and his thorough legal
training has preeminently fitted him for many re-
sponsible positions he has filled. He was formerly
counsel for the Land Mortgage Bank of London, Eng-
land, formerly vice president of the Commercial Bank
of Jacksonville and also held the position of president
of the Southern Klondike Mining Company.
On the 20th of September, i888, Judge Owen was
united in marriage to Miss Hattie L. Kidd, of Chi-
cago, and they had one child, a daughter, Aileen. Mrs.
Owen died June 6, 19o6, and Judge Owen married,
in June, 1912, Miss Anna Milne, a daughter of James
Milne, of London, Ontario, Canada. The family at-
tend the Presbyterian church, in which Judge Owen
is an active worker, having served as one of its eld-
ers. He is a member of the Jacksonville Board of
Trade and in strictly social lines his connection is with
the Seminole and Country Clubs. Along professional
lines he is a member of the American Bar Association,
the Florida State Bar Association and of the Jack-
sonville Bar Association. His political support has
always been given to the democracy and in 1882 he
was elected to represent his district in the lower house
of the Florida legislature where as in all other relations
of life he has made a creditable record.

GEORGE

WALTER ATKINSON.

The career of George Walter Atkinson although de-
void of spectacular phases is one that may well inspire
and encourage others, for it shows what may be ac-
complished when energy and ambition lead the way.
Coming to Florida in 1887, a young man with prac-
tically no means, having started out in life as a poor

boy, he is now the owner of one of the most valuable
potato farms in the neighborhood of Federal Point,
being one of the substantial men of the region.
Mr. Atkinson was born in Chester county, South
Carolina, June 4, 1868, a son of John T. and Mary
Jane (Cherry) Atkinson, who were both natives of
the same state and county. There the mother passed
away but the father spent the remaining days of his
life with our subject on his farm near Federal Point.
He had been the owner of a valuable farm of three
hundred and six acres devoted to cotton culture, having
learned the methods of operation from his father, with
whom he worked for many years on a large property
of one thousand acres. The Atkinson family is of
English descent, representatives of the name having
come to America during colonial days and locating in
Virginia. Members of the family removed from that
state to South Carolina, where they and their descend-
ants have resided for over a century. The maternal
grandfather, John Cherry, who participated in the
Revolutionary war as a colonel, was also born in
Chester county, South Carolina, and was of Irish de-
scent. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Atkinson were the
parents of five children: Edward M., of Chester,
South Carolina; Tillman, who passed away at the age
of twenty-two years; George W., of this review; John
V., of Federal Point; and Mary Graham, who makes
her home with her brother John.
George W. Atkinson was reared under the parental
roof and in the acquirement of his education attended
the neighboring schools. He assisted his father with
the work of the farm until 1887, when he came to
Federal Point, where he has made his home since.
The first four years after his arrival he worked as
a farm hand, being overseer for J. F. Tenney and
Dwight Wheeler for the last three years of that time.
His ambition and desire to get on in the world made
him careful of his money and two years after coming
to this state he was able to buy a farm upon which
he moved after giving up his position as foreman.
He has since devoted his entire time to this property
on which he has made substantial improvements and
where he follows farming along most approved and
scientific lines. He owns about one hundred acres,
part of which was wild when he bought it and part
in old orange groves which had been destroyed by
frost. Mr. Atkinson now has sixty acres under culti-
vation which he devotes to potato growing and six
acres in an orange grove which he planted himself.
Since his arrival here he has set out several groves
which he has sold to advantage. Besides raising Irish
potatoes he also grows all of the feed which he needs
'for his mules and sells a considerable amount of grain
each year. Another interest to which he devotes some
of his time is cattle raising and he derives from this

FLORIDA

undertaking

a substantial

the course of years he has

addition to his income. In
become the largest and most

now representing

his official

his district in the

record is

one which

state senate

reflects

credit

successful potato grower in the

Federal Point

district.

honor upon the state that has

honored him.

His place, which is

furnished with everything desirable

born in Burwell,

South

Carolina, January 24,

to scientific

agriculture,

is improved with two sets of

buildings and his property divided

one of which is known as

Rose Cottaj

two farms,
ge and the

comes

of Irish,

His parents were Elija
Wall, who were also r

English and
and Mary A

natives

of the

Welsh
ngeline

ancestry.
(Roberts)

district in

which

other, which is t
Gum farm. It c
trees of that kind

which

add greatly
Interested

is place

of residence,

as the Sweet

lerives its name from a number

which he has set

out in his yard and

to the attractive appearance

of the

along all lines of agricultural en-

deavor, he has also given

raising
garden

that can be

sidered

sub-tropical

considerable time to

plants and vegetables and in

is represented practically every variety

grown here.

one of the most

and he may well be

is considered

handed

that he

Mr. Atkinson

is con-

prosperous men in this region
Id of the fact, especially when
started out practically empty-

and has succeeded in acquiring

property

their son was born, but in
The father came of colonial

Wall, served

x849 removed to Florida.

stock.

throughout the seven

lutionary war, enlisting

native state.
black plague
thus left an

His father, Herdy

years

from North

His parents died of the

and the grandfather of our
orphan, was reared by James

who was childless and

Florida Elija Wall
nam county, where
was born July 4,

adopted him.

settled

at Putnam

of the R
Carolina,

bubonic or

subject,
Knight,

On coming to
Hall, in Put-

spent his remaining

and his

It was his custom

invite the surrounding

wife on
and he ne

country to

the 3d of
;ver failed

celebrate

interests, the value of

of affluence in this

rank him among the men

district.

birthday, usually

man most careful in his

holding a barbecue.

dress, always

He was a

wearing immacu-

Mr. Atkinson was married

January

20, 1891,

this characteristic is sym-

Miss Lucy Atkinson, a cousin, who was born in the

same county and state as was her husband

is a daughter of James
son. Mr. and Mrs. C

Always interested in the

and who

Lucy (Crosby) Atkin-
tkinson have one son,

innate refinement and culture.

engaged in agricultural

tivating

pursuits,

between

aid of his

negroes.

development and

He always
e and cul-

hundred acres of
He was one of
state and secured

advancement of his
all public measures

district,
and mo

Mr. Atkinson

ivements,

the improvement of the locality, a

has attained

brings to

undertaken

deep interest and,

a highly creditable prosperity

government.

nearest

time was at Hawthorn, fifteen miles away.
trails were everywhere visible, for the red
d left the state only in 1818. He was one of

has been constructive in

the agricul-

the first representatives

county in the

this section and has become a

legislature, where he was a colleague of Colonel F. L.

man who is
Actuated by

considered

fashioned virtues of
trained success. He

regarded
confidence

contact.

He has not

ing the changes that have
stretches of waste lands

a pioneer

industry and

of civic expansion.
exercising the old-
honesty, he has at-

is a man of sterling character,

wherever

known,

and one who in-

whom

been an

he comes in

onlooker, witness-

e made and are making

into fertile

fields, but is

Dancy,
district
public

while Judge Putnam was sena
Mr. Wall was always deeply

affairs,

accepted sense of
capital by stage
railroads at that
session, being dis
political affairs. I

a crat and

process.

career is
answer.

of the fact that success

is ambition's

tor from 1
interested

but was not a politician in the

and

term. -I
horseback,

time;

for there
resigned

were no

one

management

a believer in the princi
August 30o, 1890, having

who passed away I
ered ten sons and

John P., the seventh in or<

long survived
1858. The fai

two daughters,
ier of birth, and

of Clay county, are the

the eldest,

served

only ones now living. Geo
h the Palmetto Regiment

WALL.

South

Carolina in

the Mexican

Putnam county bears

impress
all. who

in the charge at Cherebusco, Mexico.
of the name) died in childhood in iI

who was at one time representative

George
;i. Tho

from Clay

(second
,mas P.,
county

has in

various

ways

with its material

in the state legislature, became a captain in the Seventh

development and

activity.

was

state

FLO

Cumberland Gap, leaving three sons and one daugh-
ter. Elizabeth E. passed away January 27, 1854.
Angeline Ursula became the wife of B. W. Powell
and at her death left one daughter. Stephen Jack-
son served for four years in the Civil war, being an
orderly sergeant of the Second Florida Cavalry, and
died at Putnam Hall, leaving one son. Roan L.,
who was an officer in Captain Moseley's company of
the Seventh Florida Regiment, died leaving two sons
and a daughter. Rienzi G., who was a private of
the Second Florida Regiment, was taken sick while
at the front and returned home, where he passed
away. Lawrence D. served for four years with the
Second Florida Cavalry, was afterward for three
terms the representative for Bradford county in the
state legislature, and died in January, 1913, leaving
two sons and three daughters. Belton S., who served
for three years in the Second Florida Cavalry under
Captain Stephens and after the latter's death, under
Captain Gray, afterward went to Missouri and served
for three years in the United States regular army on
duty against the Indians. He was a fine looking man, of
soldierly bearing, and was a fearless fighter. He
stood six feet and one inch in his stocking feet and
was the only red-headed member of the family. He
had three sons and three daughters. John P. was
the next to him in the family. James L., of Clay
county, has four sons and five daughters. After
losing his first wife the father married again and
had two daughters by that union: Mrs. Hortense J.
Ward, of Alachua county; and Mrs. Florence L.
Goodson, of Putnam Hall.
Since the removal of the family to Putnam county
in x849 John P. Wall has continuously made his home
within its borders and now owns and occupies the
old homestead upon which his father first located and
which he secured from the government. There are
about three hundred acres of land with ninety acres
under cultivation. He has upon the place an orange
grove and other fruits, and he also engages in stock-
raising and general farming. At one time he engaged
in the operation of a sawmill' and also carried on
merchandising at Putnam Hall before the building
of the railroad. He has handled considerable real
estate and it was he who secured the right of way
for the railroad. He is also president of the Inde-
pendent Fruit Growers Association of Lake Geneva
and Putnam Hall. Deeply interested in all that per-
tains to the progress and welfare of the community,
he has cooperated in many movements for the general
good, and his labors have at all times been of a char-
acter that have contributed to general prosperity as
well as to individual success.
In politics Mr. Wall has been a lifelong democrat
and his fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth

RIDA

and ability have again and again elected him to pub-
lic office. For fourteen years he was justice of the
peace and his decisions were ever strictly fair and
impartial. For two years he was a member of the
county school board and twice he was offered the trus-
teeship of one of the state educational institutes but
declined. He has been closely connected with the
work of framing legislation in Florida and was elected
to the lower house of the general assembly in 1893,
1895 and I897, and again in i9oI, 1903 and 1905.
In 1911 he was defeated for state senator by twenty-
one votes by S. J. Hilburn, who later resigned, where-
upon Mr. Wall was elected to fill the unexpired term
without opposition. His long service in the general
assembly has enabled him to take an active and prom-
inent part in shaping state legislation, and his influ-
ence has, again and again, been found an active
factor in championing movements which have resulted
beneficially to the state.
In 1872 Mr. Wall was united in marriage to Miss
Nannie L. Wilson, who was born in Clay county,
Florida, April 13, 1856, and has been a lifelong resi-
dent of this state. Her parents were Jesse and Mary
(Knight) Wilson, whose parents were natives of
Georgia but pioneer settlers of Florida, where their
last days were passed. Mr. and Mrs. Wall have
become the parents of nine children. Belton Percy,
the eldest, resides in Jacksonville. He was a rail-
road man for twenty years, being for sixteen years
with the Florida East Coast Railroad, during which
time he rose from the position of brakeman to train-
master, but has now retired from the service on
account of his health. Jesse Verner, a traveling sales-
man, makes his home with his parents. John P.,
now an able attorney of Seattle, Washington, was
graduated from the Washington and Lee University,
making the finest record of any man in the school
from Florida, standing first in his class. Dr. W. W. C.
Wall, a graduate of the Southern Dental College, of
Atlanta, Georgia, engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession in Washington. He served in the Spanish-
American war as a member of Company D, First
Florida Regiment. During his service his health be-

came impaired, resulting in h
November 19, 1912. He left
ter, who are now in Seattle.
E. W. Watkins of Putnam
wife of W. J. Deal, of Mon
Essie is a teacher in Palatka
is at home. Worth Bagley
years.
Mr. Wall is prominent i
forty-two years he has beei

ternity, 1
years has

uis death at Putnam Hall,
a widow, son and daugh-
Mary B. is the wife of
Hall. Annie B. is the
tezuma, Georgia. Henry
high school Alice Irene
died at the age of four

Masonic circles.
a member of the

filled all of the chairs, and for many
n worshipful master. His religious faith

FLORIDA

is indicated by his membership in the Baptist church.
His life has been one of continuous activity, in which
he has been accorded due recognition of labor and
he is numbered among the substantial citizens of
his county. His interests are thoroughly identified
with those of Putnam and at all times he is ready to
lend his aid and cooperation to any movement
calculated to benefit this section of the country or ad-
vance its wonderful development. The terms "prog-
ress" and "patriotism" might be considered the key-
note of his character, for at all times he has been
actuated by an intense fidelity to his state and her
welfare.

NOEL

A. -MITCHELL.

The leaders are few. The great majority of men
are content to follow in paths that others have marked
out, lacking the initiative which enables them to branch
out in new lines and pass on the highway of life many
who, perhaps, started out ahead of them. The quality
of successful accomplishment, however, is possessed in
large measure by Noel A. Mitchell. His originality,
versatility, persistency and initiative are the factors
which have made him, as a young man, one of the
foremost citizens not only of Florida but of Connecti-
cut, while his business activities have also reached to
other states and along certain lines have extended from
ocean to ocean. In connection with his real-estate in-
terests he is the most extensive advertiser of Florida.
In the north he is the owner of a theater with a seat-
ing capacity of two thousand, and as a confectionery
manufacturer his name has become known throughout
the length and breadth of the land. These are but a
few of the lines along which he has operated and in
his vocabulary there is no such word as fail. He was
born at Block Island, Rhode Island, January 9, 1872,
a son of James and Mary J. Mitchell, who were also
natives of that state and of English descent, the an-
cestors in both the paternal and maternal lines having
arrived in New England in colonial days. The family
is related to Benjamin Franklin. James Mitchell was
a soldier of the Civil war and was wounded at the
battle of Gettysburg while serving under "Fighting"
Joe Hooker. He participated in a number of other
hotly contested engagements, including Antietam, and
was crippled for life at Gettysburg by the bursting of
a shell. He also followed contracting and building
and both he and his wife died in Rhode Island about
ten years ago.
Noel A. Mitchell spent the greater part of his early
life in Providence, Rhode Island, and was a high-
school pupil at Block Island, while in Providence he

attended night school, devoting his days to the selling
of newspapers. He afterward went to Atlantic City,
New Jersey, where he learned the confectionery trade
and began the manufacture of the famous Mitchell's
Atlantic City salt water taffy, now known from coast
to coast. For twenty years he has engaged in the
manufacture of that confection and the business has
reached mammoth proportions.
The boy who started out selling newspapers on the
city streets is today regarded as one of the foremost
business men of Florida. Ten years ago, after spend-
ing one year in California and not liking the climate
there, he came to this state, drifted to St. Petersburg,
and saw the possibilities of the place. He entered the
real-estate field in a small way and during the past
six years has been extensively engaged in real-estate
dealing. He purchased a block of ground where his
office is now located, securing a tract one hundred and
thirty by one hundred feet, for which he gave fifteen
thousand dollars and for which he has since been
offered eighty-five thousand. Something of the nature
of his business methods is indicated in the fact that
he has been termed "the real-estate man with a con-
science." "He never sleeps" has also been used to
characterize his business methods, and in advertising
he terms himself "the sand man," for he has pur-
chased what others have regarded as wide sand waste
and has transformed such tracts into beautiful resi-
dence or business districts. He has made several addi-
tions to St. Petersburg, and the methods which he has
employed are such as will bear the closest investigation
and scrutiny. He has made advertising, honest deal-
ing and enterprise the foundation of his success. He
now has a large amount of property listed and sells
much of his land at public auction. H. Honore of Chi-
cago, Illinois, is now associated with Mr. Mitchell in
his real-estate transactions as a silent partner. Mr.
Mitchell is an expert in writing his own advertise-
ments, being able to seize upon the vital point in pre-
senting the matter to the public, while his original
methods attract attention and his reputation for busi-
ness integrity has made it known that what he says can
be depended upon. In addition to his large real-estate
holdings in St. Petersburg and this section of the state,
he is a director and was one of the organizers of the
Central National Bank. He has had extensive write-
ups in magazines and current literature under the
title The Career of an Advertiser. He employs four
sales people and several stenographers in the conduct
of his real-estate business, and he spends his summers
at Savin Rock, Connecticut, where he has developed a
large and most attractive amusement park; containing a
theater with seating capacity for two thousand. He
has many other forms of clean amusements and is
always on the lookout for something new, novel, and

L~..jA. -1

zxc"y

He seems to grasp

termination

which grows

stronger

face of dis-

business possibilities

ever,

a situation

that his judgment

ty trade transaction.
Mr. Mitchell was married

Gladys

Katherine.

is seldom,
at fault in

in 1899 and has one child,

an Episcopalian

a thirty-second

in religious

degree

Mason

couragement and difficulties.

Governor

entered

became identified

the office of

years

mayor of

After winning
upon the pract

his degree
ice of law

there residing fi
winning election

that city when

but twenty-three

age. He served for two terms, his

adminis-

an Elk. He belongs to the St.
he has done amateur dramatic

Petersburg Club

work

on many

tration being marked by able,

tive methods,

far-sighted and construc-

and .at the age of twenty-six he was

the negro and the Iri
a prodigious spectach
under the name of

Gras Association,

belongs to

Yacht

impersonations of
ted at Savin Rock

and carnival

the Mardi Gras,

entertainments
organizing the

and was its first king.

and Anglers

Club of St. Peters-

burg. He may see visions and dream dreams, but

soon makes these practical and

man of action,
he undertakes
community in

intense and vital,

and 'the
which he

success.

result

resultant

realities.

sent from his district

sentatives.
senate foi
president 4

After two years

r a term

house

repre-

he was elected to the state

of four years and was made

in 1905,

his work in the

presaging his present progressive services as governor.

At the age

eral ol
years,

he accomplishes

proves

of benefit to the

operates as well as a source of

f

of thirty-two he was elected

Florida

and acted in

capa

attorney
city for

in which connection a local paper wrote:
nell has stood from the first for publicity

affairs.

He advocates

sale of. large

in all

the advertising of any

tracts

and has

a numimber of resolutions requiring

and other

data to be

furnished to

intro-

monthly re-
the internal

improvement

trustees.

In the early part of his

he offered a resolution

GOVERNOR

PARK

TRAMMELL.

of'a regular

to discontinue

attorney by the trustees,

the employment
and another to

agent,

employee or attorney of the

In Governor Park

Trammell Florida has it

1
In

the qualities

of statesmanship necessary in the

tion of the vital interests

a great

control
measure
direc-

commonwealth.

He is a man of constructive political ability, keen fore-

and discernment and

integrity.

His life has been devoted

d unquestioned
almost entirely

trustees

from

getting

any commission or compensa-

tion from the purchasers of public
pardoning board. Mr. Trammell takes

every application
and that, while
the law-abiding
law-breaker."

have thorou

On the

the position that
igh investigation

justice should be tempered with mercy,
' must be remembered as well as the

to the public service, his

advancement

ability and power have become
During his service as governor

strated the strength

ideals and

record

known

commg

as his

and recognized.

he has already

and practicability

the qualities

reflects

demon-

of his political

of his statesmanship.

credit

has honored him.

among her native sons.

Florida

He was born in

the common-
numbers him
Polk county,

During
political
became
influenti.

g all of these
prominence had
recognized as or
al factors in the

efficient work and

portant

I far-i

years

Governor

been waxing

Trammell's

greater until he

ne of the most powerful and

public life
sighted polio

positions

public morality were recognized and
in the election of 1912 he was chosen

of the state.

icy in various im-
I his hirh ideals of

rewarded w
as the chief

a son of John W. and Ida (Park) Trammell.

father,

a pioneer of Polk county, was a prominent

ecutive

inaugurated

on the democratic

governor January 7, I913,

icket.
for a

term of

farmer and cattleman

leaders

of the state.

in 1887, I889

n and also one of the political
He was elected to the legislature

1891 and was one of the foremost

four years and the

following

transmitted

first message to the legislature. This message, prob-
ably the most concise resume of the present conditions

factors

in the early development

he and his wife are now deceased.
In the common schools of his native

acquired his early

and future

needs

of the state ever submitted

to the

legislative body of Florida, expressed an earnest de-

county

education and

nberland University of Lebanon,
he completed a law course and

was graduated with the class of

earned the money necessary

May, 1899.

to defray his
played that spir

expenses
it of de-.

sire tU
looking
people

o cooperate with th
g to the prosperity,
of Florida. Amor

progressive nature

deemed

ie legislature in every effort

and happiness

of the

the recommendations

conducive

more rapid

development were the abolition of the convict lease sys-

to guarantee bank

state prison farm,
a corrupt practice

a fund
act, di-

term

entertainmg.

on

ti

ge

FLORIDA

rect election of United

the facilities

of the

States senators,

College

of Agriculture,

enlargement of

protection

Levy county,

in the

Florida, and acquired his

East Florida

Seminary at Gainesville.

education
He later

to the cattle industry, the muzzling of the lobbyist, pub-
lic school libraries and the repeal of railway land grants
law. He also made an especially strong plea in favor

entered

Emory College

which he was

graduated

A. B., immediately

Oxford,

Georgia,

in 1884, with the degree of

afterward

beginning

the study

a statewide

tablishment of
construction c
economical an
conviction tha

movement

for good

roads

a state road commission to

f public

highways

and the

insure the
substantial,

d systematic lines, and submitting his
t no one thing would add more to the

comfort, convenience and material advancement of

the state than a thorough

On the 21st of

October,

stem of good roads.
190o, Governor Trammell

medicine.
ceptorship
Bellevue H
the degree

present
of media
widespre

He worked

for some

of his father and
Hospital Medical C
of M. D. in I887

time under the

was graduated

college

in New

From that

from the

York

time to the

he has been actively engaged in the practice
cine in the state of Florida and has gained

ead

distinction

After practicing

for eight

in his

chosen

years as

field of labor.

an associate

of his

was married to Miss
Thomas C. Darby, of

and orange

nected

grower.

Virginia
Lakeland,

Darby,

a daughter

a prominent merchant

Fraternally the Governor is con-

with the Knights of Pythias and the

of the World.
of orderly pr

Woodmen

in his career has been one

ogres

look and wider

sion, bringing
opportunities.

him a broader
The people

recognized his merit and ability and have accorded him

father at Bronson he came in x896 to Miami and is one

of the
railroad
munity

pioneers in the city, for in the
I was completed to the town site

sprang into e:

ticed his profession

since that time

same year me
. and the .com-

distence. Dr. Jackson has prac-
with marked success in Miami

and today

among physicians and surge
nition as one of the mosi

occupies a prominent place
eons. He has gained recog-
t able practitioners in this

honors and distinction.

In the

discharge

of his duties

section of

state and by his labors, his high

profes-

governor he
o the realms

gone beyond the field

of statesmanship,

making

of politics
expediency

sional attainments and
justified the respect an

his sterling characteristics has

d confidence in which

he is held

secondary

to honor

and public

righteousness and the

claims of self-interest entirely subsidiary

of the people
commonwealth.

to the welfare

and the general advancement

of the

by the medical
is a member of
ex-president o:

States

Medics

lI

fraternity

and the

the American
f the Florida
Societies. He

general

Medical

public.

Association

State and the

Southern
a member

and ex-president

Dade County

Associ-

action and is now surgeon in charge of the Florida East

Coast

Railway Extension Hospital.

JAMES

Dr. Jackson married,

Barco,

a history of the medical

fraternity

in Miami

October

of Bronson, and
aged fourteen; and

3, 1894, Miss Ethel
ave two daughters:

years

mention

be made

of Dr. James

Dr. Jackson is well known in social circles of

Jackson,

who was a pioneer physician

in the

being a member of the

Biscayne Bay

Yacht

who has for the pas
cessful practice of h
in Hamilton county,
son of Dr. James M

t seventeen years been in the suc-

is profession

here.

He was born

zo, 1866,

was

and is a

born in South

first Masonic

and is besides affiliated

Benevolent Protective

Carolina and
first medical

who was graduated
colleges in New Orlea

from one of the
ms. the establish-

Order of Elks

years of

residence

of Pythias.

His many

city have made him widely

and favorably known here, while his

ability places

University.

He practiced

medicine

in the state of

in the foremost

ranks

of the medical

fraternity.

Florida for nearly ha
his son, the subject

Ilf a century, dying at the home of
of this review, in Miami, on the

of May, 1911, at the age
es M. Jackson, Sr., serve

of eighty years. Dr.
d through the entire

LIVINGSTON

Civil war in the Co
and then as surgeon.

Miss Mary

rfederate a
His wife,

Glenn

Shands,

rmy,

as a private

who was in her maid-

was born

in Spar-

Hotel interests

resented

in Volusia

Elmore

county

Livingston

tanburg, South

Carolina,

30, I907,

sixty-nine.

child born to his

Jackson
parents.

review

He was

rearec

was the only
d in Bronson,

of his native

in Seabreeze and pr
He was born in M
lis early education i
city and afterward

schools

FLORIDA

Wesleyan

University in Delaware.

his books he came to Florida,

After

locating in

He has since been identified

here and has
line of work

laying aside
Daytona in

with hotel inter-

founded a conspicuous success in

upon ability and

and developed i
greatest business

s a valuable addition

interests of

Florida

a

to
ndh

have been forces in the substantial growth and

of the community where he makes his

one of the
is activities

progress

home.

experience.

purchased upon coming
Breakers in Seabreeze,
were destroyed by fire.

here The Clarendon and The

which

on February

14, 1909,

One year from that date work

JOHN

S. TAYLOR,

was begun

on the new

Clarendon, on

the site of the

old hostelry, and in the same year

s a notable

completed. It is
hotels of Florida,

south of the Mason
is of the Spanish type,

addition

the building

to the

tourists

being the finest institution of its kind

and Dixon line.

The building

spacious in plan and of

appropriate to the climate and
attractive to the eye. The m

in forced concrete, n
absolutely fireproof.

every

detail

has been

making

surroundings

a design
and very

materiall employed is

the Clarendon

throughout

In the equipment of the hotel

provided to

insure the safety

comfort of the guests and nothing has been overlooked

John S. Taylor, Jr., is one of the old-time
of Pinellas county, in which he has made

since the ag
has covered

seven

years.

residents
his home

His business activity

farming and stock-raising and he has also

been prominent in political circles.
Hernando county, Florida, October

John S. and Margaret
were natives of Georgia,

in Florida.
state about
same time.

He was
12, 1844,

Ann (Carter)
although they

The father, born

born in
a son of

Taylor, who
were married

in 1813, came to this

and Mrs. Taylor arrived

They resided

about

in Columbia county,

which might add

to their enjoyment.

There are music

Lake City, and afterward removed to Alachua county.

rooms,

ballrooms, billiard

rooms

and bowling

indoors, while outdoor amusements provided

tennis,
fishing,

golf, horseback riding,

hunting,

automobiling,

surf bathing and, in

y

include
actingn,

ever

of amusement known to resort hotels of the

y kind
higher

Subsequently
county, near

they took up their
Brooksville, where

abode

in Hernando

Mrs. Taylor

away when her son John was about seven years of age.

The father afterward b
Pinellas county, leaving

brought

his three children to

them with

his father,

class.
oughly
always

Guides and experienced

trained
on hand

deerhounds,
to conduct

hunters with thor-

bear and bird
parties fond of

liam Taylor, who was a native of

grandfather

Georgia.

and the father died in this

Both the

district.

former was a farmer and stockman and the latter was

sport,

and for lovers

of automobiling

there is

a merchant in his early

life, while residing in

Alachua

greatest

automobile

speedway

in the world and

are many miles of good motor roads through the coun-

In addition

to this there

is usually

a one or two

county, but
fruit growing
There were

later engaged in farming, stock-raising and
ig. He died at the age of eighty-two years.
three children by his first marriage: John

passenger aeroplane

or hydroplane

at the disposal

S.; William J., now .deceased; and

Margaret

the Hotel

Clarendon

guests.

Every room has hot and

cold running water, steam heat and a telephone, while

the hotel is

elevator service.

supplied

with a very adequate

electric

In addition there are connected with

widow
losing h

of Benjamin Campbell, of Seminole.

lis

first wife the father married

again,

that union there was a daughter, Nancy

who is now the wife

of Dr. McMullen,

After
and by

Elizabeth,
of Iargo,

the hotel Turkish baths,

and manicuring

and hair

Florida.

dressing
the Van

parlors.
Noys H

the E. L. Potter

Mr. Potter is also connected

[otel in
Hotel

Mr. Potter married

Illinois,

a daughter

cum) Buell.
Helen Buell.
name stands
efficient and

successful in
and has made

Los Angeles and

Company

president

of that city.

Miss Jessie Buell,

As previously stated, John S. Taylor has resided
continuously in Pinellas county from the age of seven

years and has been an interested witness

of Evanston,

of Augustus C. and Helen
id Mrs. Potter have one dat

In Seabreeze
as a synonym
modern in hotel

the management

and Daytona Mr. Potter's
for all that is up-to-date,
1 operation. He has been

of the new Clarendon

finest

resort hotels in the

and progress of the sta
its welfare. He served
under Captain J. W. I
close of hostilities and
of the time, remaining

In 1867 Mr.

of the growth

te and an active participant

d as major in
?earsons, from

the Civil

war,

;ty tor a part
entire period

Taylor was united in marriage to Miss

Georgia A. Ham, a native of this state and a daughter

because he understands the business with which

is connected in

a pioneer

of Bryan county,

Georgia,

and because

he is in addition a careful, conservative and far-sighted

man, possessed
organizing abilil

an initiative power and
The institution which he

passed

away

a great

in Pinellas county

stock-raiser

war.

in 1875.

was a

and owned a
Mr. and Mrs.

:e

4

passed

I

FLORIDA

had no children

nieces.

of their own but have reared two

They are members

pal church, South, and

with the

of the

Mr. Taylor

Methodist

Episco-

is also connected

Masonic fraternity and the United

ate Veterans Camp.

lowed

C

Throughout his life he

horticultural and agricultural

now the owner of one hundred

two miles west

of Belleair.

:onfeder-
has fol-

pursuits and is

* and ten acres of land
This tract is under a

years

of age and

supplemen

in private schools, by stu
He also spent two years in
and for a time was a studer

Heiskell,
bar in I

of Knoxville,
ka6. He then

tanooga and for ten years
with the Florida bar. It

ted his education, acquired
dy in Gainesville College.
the Tennessee Law School
it in the law office of S. G.

where he
practiced

was admitted
for a time in

has been actively connected
was feared that he had a

high state of cultivation, and his

practical

gressive methods are evidenced in the neat appearance
of the place.
At various times Mr. Taylor has been active in polit-

ical circles.

After the reconstruction days

and dur-

ing the first democratic administration in the county

he served for two years

missioners.

on the board

He was also appointed

of county com-

on the board

supervisors of roads and bridges, but that office was
abolished by the legislature the following year, the

board of commissioners

the fall

of 1884

Mr. Taylor

house of the state legislature

representing

the western

taking over its duties.

was elected

to the lower

re and served for one term,
part of Hillsboro county.

tubercular condition when he came to

under

the influences of

at once began

the sunny clime of

this state, but

Florida

to improve in health and during the

year gained forty

was a resident

po

of Tampa

unds. For eight
and has made his

Pinellas county since its organization.

the county to leI
of organization

He canvassed

public opinion upon the

and took an active

in the creation of the county.

served as city attorney
until June, 1911, under
had been attorney of P

ization.

He is a mem

Bar Associations and

of Tampa
the Wing

question

re and helpful part
He had previously

from June, 1909,
administration and

inellas county since its organ-
ber of the County and State

the American

Bar Association,

He has ever s
building of the
and his labors

suiting
an active

sought to advance the welfare

and up-

e section of the state in which he lives,

have been

potent

in benefit along many li
'e, aggressive citizen, an

able business man,

wins the warm

factors for good, re-

Lines.

He is known as

enterprising

and reli-

and one who in social relations

regard

of those

with whom

comes

in contact

and is recognized as a lawyer of

high professional standard
tion and success through
tion of the law points in

been a lifelong det
On the i2th of
united in marriage

a representative

the period

ability who holds

rds, and has gained distinc-
his clear and wise applica-

litigation.

nocrat.

March, 1886,
to Mrs. Sarah

of old southern

of his residence

In politics he

Mr. Rowland

wa,

E. Tardy, who is

families,

in Florida he

and during
has demon-

strated his personal worth and given evidence of his

acquired ability in the line

of his profession-ability

W. R. ROWLAND.

W. R. Rowland,

of St. Petersburg,

the office of county attorney of Pinellas

now filling
county and

that has enabled him to successfully

tricate law problems and
win the verdict desired.

so present

ve many
cases as

moreover

is the oldest

attorney

i years

of continuous

connection with the

ability

profession

as a member of the bar

in the county. His
is recognized by all

and in the

at the

trial of cases he has proven resourceful,

same time giving

evidence

EDWARD

C. ROMFH.

that he is thor-

oughly grounded
He was born in (
and is a son of

(Johnson)
son. North

were married

father

in the 1

basic

;ainesville,
William

principles of the law.

Georgia,

August

R. and Sarah

A
3l

Rowland, the former a native of
Carolina, and the latter of Georgia.

in the Empire

engaging much of

State of the Sou

\, 1864,
izabeth
Ander-
They
ith, the

the time in the livery busi-

Edward

C. Romfh,

one of the leading

of Miami, is president of the First .National

has been connected with fil
the foundation of the city.
rapid advancement through

financiers
Bank and

nancial interests here since
He has made steady and

the years,

a man of

initiative and power, and he has today gained a posi-
tion of distinctive precedence. He was born in Cam-

ness. He served for two years in the Civil war as

den, Arkansas,

February

8, 1880. and is a son of

a member of
Gainesville a

a Georgia

It the

regiment and is now living in

age of eighty-one

years,

but his

Georj
The

'e

B. and Elvira

father is a native of

Virginia

Alabama

(Jordan)

Romfh.

and afterward

wife passed away twelve years ago.
W. R. Rowland, the eldest in a family

remained

at Gainesville,

Georgia,

moved to Florida,

of four sons,

until twenty-one

l

i888 he removed to
the family went to Ai

ocating at
Titusville.

Altoona,

whence in

Seven years later

tlanta, Georgia, but after a resi-

FLORIDA

of six

months

there returned

locat-

Melbourne.

Edward

accompanied his

various removals, acquiring

schools.

associated with

his brother,

his educa

E

the mercantile business at West

In I
Eugene
Palm

parents in their
,tion principally
896 he became
B. Romfh, in

Bea

after

business standards,

a thorough
relating to

central figure
where his we

modern

business methods, and for

and complete understanding

the baking

in general

always

business.
business

well used,

which has been worthily attained,

g of everything
is, moreover, a

circles

anda ms success,
have made him

prominent and important as a factor in general

less than a year they

On the Ist

of August

moved
t, 1898,

turned to Florida and located. at

to Nacogdoches,

Texas.

Edward C. Romfh

Miami,

where he

vancement.
Germany, I
hard and

bold was born in Wurttemberg,
14, 1872, and is a son of Bern-

Seybold,

both of whom

has resided

since pioneer times, becoming

reside

many important

phases

of the city's development

John Seybold was reared in

Germany

and there

progress.

Throughout the thirteen years of

dence here he has been identified

acquired

with the banking

a public-school education.

seventeen,

he crossed

In 1889, at the

the Atlantic to America

business,

first becoming connected with

Biscayne, which

In 1902,
First Na

he entered

after four years,

national

-Bank

the Bank of

in 1898 as bookkeeper.
was made cashier of the

position

for eight

and located first
spent two years e
In 1892 he came

played

in Baltimore,

engagedd in
to Florid;

as a journeyman baker,

Maryland, where he

learning the

baker's trade.

and for a time was em-

at St. Augustine

years, winning promotion in

1910 to the office of presi-

and later at Palatka.

In 1894

he embarked in

dent. Since then he

has aided

materially in keeping

ness for

himself in the latter city but after the dev-

the institution upon a sound financial basis and has
been an active and prominent factor in its substantial

growth.

He is widely

recognized

financiers in this section of the state and

earned

an enviable

reputation as a care-

stating
greatly

Proceeding
a bakery

railroad

frost of 1895 business
affected and he decided

g

to West

Palm Beach,

for about one year but no

been completed

conditions there were

he there conducted

sooner n1
and the

town

ful man of

business, his honorable methods

won him the confidence

and regard

having

associates

his fortune

community.

He arrived here on the 28th

in the new
of April,

and friends.

Miami

Savings

He is chairman of the board of the

Bank and

also treasurer

Telephone Company.
On January 26, I

Marie
South
They !
years
years.
history
ment a
terests

of the

Miami

married

Antoinette de Camp, a native of Greenville,

Ca!
hav

rolina, but
'e two son

at that time a resident of
s: Edward C., Jr., who

Miami.
is five

of age; and Lawrence de Camp, aged three
Mr. Romfh is thoroughly familiar with the

md
S0
UnK

f

an early period

I has done much to advance
A man of liberal views and

he is honored

as one

substantial

citizens

i896, and was therefore
in the city. However,
there were already two

considering

one of

the first business

he found -on

his arrival

other

overcrowded,

turn his attention to some other

Accordingly,
ness of that

bakers

he determined .to
line of endeavor.

he started a lunch counter, the

in Miami,

successfully for a short time sold

ing in payment a
idleness following

rowed a gun
accompanied
broke out in I

Miami

note.

During t
transaction

first busi-

and after conducting

the enterprise, tak-

he brief period
Mr. Seybold b

and went upon a hunting

a friend.

expedition,

While he was gone fire

and the entire city

was destroyed,

and pioneer

residents

community.

erty was

destroyed,

ng up along with the rest of the
of Mr. Seybold's personal prop-
including the clothes which he

As a result of

SEYBOLD.

the fire the purchaser

of his

Mr. Sevbold

career

of John Seybold

offers

ex-

clothes

persever-

ance in the accomplishment of success, for

qualities,

for recognizing

outlook was discouraging for he had no money and
the only business with which he was thoroughly famil-
iar was not then a lucrative one in Miami. He accord-

opportunities,

ily upward in the business
trol of the largest bakery

largest

in this section of

he has worked his

world, being today

in Miami
he state.

t

r stead-
in con-

one of the

His name stands

left the city
the outbreak

army was encamped

of this fact,

and went to Jacksonville, where
of the Spanish-American war, the

for some time.

Mr. Seybold

Taking
i pies

advan-
for the

dence

busi-

usimg

FLORIDA

he made about two thousand dollars in a short time.
This money, however, he subsequently lost in new
business ventures and in x899 returned to Miami with
very little more than he had when he left the city.
He has since remained here and his present prom-
inence is a proof of the excellent results which have
attended his well directed labors. He bought on
credit a small bakery and centered his attention upon
making his fortune with the result that he soon se-
cured a large and representative patronage and his
business expanded rapidly until it is today one of the
most important in this part of Florida. The store is
located on Twelfth street, the city's main business
thoroughfare, and is upon a fine business property
with a frontage of fifty feet on that street and extend-
ing in the direction of Eleventh street for two hun-
dred and fifteen feet. The building is a modern two-
story concrete block structure erected by Mr. Sey-
bold and in it is found large ice cream parlors, an
excellent soda fountain and a bakery with a capacity
of several thousand loaves a day. The goods sold
here are always fresh, wholesome and thoroughly
pure, baked according to the most sanitary methods,
nothing being left undone which makes for high
quality and purity. Mr. Seybold always follows the
most modern business methods and his progressive
spirit is constantly evidenced in the way his large

concern is managed, for he
tion of detail which is the f
work. In the garage upon

has achieved t
foundation of
his property

perfec-
ffective
found

four motor trucks in which his goods are delivered
to his many customers and there also is his own pri-
vate automobile, for he is an enthusiastic motorist.
Naturally, in the course of years Mr. Seybold's suc-
cess and prominence have carried him forward into
important relations with the general business life
of Miami, where he is recognized as a man of initia-
tive, energy and resource, possessed of the unflagging
determination which eventually overcomes all obsta-
cles and the ability which commands opportunity.
He is a director in the First National Bank of Miami
and prominent also in other important business enter-
prises in the city.
In 1902 Mr. Seybold married Miss Ellen Freedland
and they have three children: Helen, who is seven
years of age; William, aged six; and Constance, aged
two. Mr. and Mrs. Seybold are members of the
Lutheran church and are highly respected and es-
teemed in Miami, where they have an extensive
circle of friends. Fraternally Mr. Seybold belongs
to the Masonic order and the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks. In the course of his long residence
here he has proved himself a valuable addition to the
ranks of energetic and progressive citizens, his splen-
did success in the building up of his large concern

being recognized
the present wealth
community.

as an important contribution
and the future prominence of

JEPTHA VINING HARRIS, JR.

At the foot of Duval street and with the broad
expanse of the waters of the gulf of Mexico before
it, stands the home of Jeptha Vining Harris, Jr. The
structure, of unique and attractive design, is built of
brick and concrete and is surrounded with magnificent
lawn and flower beds. By many it is regarded as the
most beautiful home of Key West. Hither Mr. Harris
retires at the close of busy days spent with clients or in
the courts, for he is a leading member of the Florida
bar and possesses comprehensive knowledge of legal
principles, in the application of which he is seldom if
ever at fault. He was born in Columbus, Mississippi,
May 4, 1865, a son of Dr. Jeptha Vining Harris, who
has been a distinguished and highly respected citizen
of Key West since the early '70s, prominently con-
nected with many events which have shaped the history
of the island city and of the state. Before coming to
Florida he served throughout the Civil war as a member
of the Confederate army, which he entered as a private
but later became a surgeon. He was a physician by
profession and for a third of a century remained in
the active practice of medicine in Key West, but is now
living retired, having put aside further professional
cares. In all the years of his residence here he has
also figured prominently in connection with events of
public importance, and his official record is one over
which there falls not the least shadow of wrong or
suspicion of evil. For several years he served in the
state legislature, being a member of both the upper
and lower houses, and he was also collector of cus-
toms at the port of Key West from I885 until 1889,
filling the position under appointment of Grover Cleve-
land. For a number of years he acted as county
superintendent of public instruction, and in various
other ways he has furthered public progress along lines
of intellectual, material, political and moral develop-
ment.
Jeptha Vining Harris, Jr., was a lad of about six
years when his parents came to Key West, where he
has since made his home. His early education was
acquired in the public and private schools here and
later he entered the East Florida Seminary at Gaines-
ville, in which he completed the full course by gradu-
ation when but seventeen years of age. He received an
appointment to the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland, but after pursuing his studies
there for a year he resigned in order to prepare for

I

I

I

* ~ ,-.

~P- C

FLORIDA

a professional career.

apartment of
graduated in

In 1885 he entered the law

Tulare University,

I I886.

to the bar in the

He w
Crescent

from which he was

as soon afterward

city and then,

admitted

returning

Key West, was admitted to practice in the courts of

Florida. V
partnership

Within

a short space of time he entered

with G. Bowne Patterson

and the firm,

commodore of
only deserving

sentative

the Key

West

mention

a prominent

Yacht

Club. He

in this volume as

southern

a repre-

family but also

a citizen whose ideals of life are high and whose activi-

ties have been an element

and legal

status of the city

in upholding the
and in furthering

political
its social

and moral development.

under

the style of

Patterson &

Harris, maintained a

continuous existence for nearly a quarter of a century,

or until

g191, and during that period enjoyed a reputa-

tion as one of the strongest

part of the
was made

state.

legal firms in the southern

In 1895, by appointment, Mr.

prosecuting

Florida, and held the

sixteen

attorney

for Monroe

Harris
county,

office without interruption for

years, a record most creditable, as

his capability

many

and his fidelity

to duty.

cases and lost but few.

o duty.
No c

it indicates

He has argued

ne better

knows

the necessity for thorough preparation and no one more

industriously prepares his cases than Mr.
course in the courtroom is characterized

.ness and dignity that

analysis

Harris.

by a calm-

indicate reserve strength.

of the facts is clear and exhaustive

sees without effort their

so groups

bined

force

relation

them as to enable him

and he

and dependence and

to throw

upon the point they tend

Harris is a valued member of the Key

ciation

and of the Florida

also has business interests

being a

their com-

prove.

West Bar Asso-

State Bar Association. He
aside from his profession,

director of the Island City Bank and a

in and attorney
On the 2d of

Curry's

director
Sons.

1892, occurred the marriage

E. Curry,

JUDGE

JOHN

Judge John Moses
tired from the United

engaged
is number

MOSES

Cheney,

Chene
States

CHENEY.

who has recently

district bench and is now

in the private practice of law in Jacksonville,

is numbered

among the standard-bearers of

the repub-

lican party in the state and is one who, although
stanchly advocating the principles in which he believes,

ever commands the respect

his political
unassailable,

tion to

opponents,

and confidence

for his record

even

in public life

being characterized by unflagging
the general good, while partisanship an

sonal aggrandizement are

to the

always

made

best interests of the majority.

Milwaukee,

Wisconsin,

and is a son of Joseph

he was born January 6,

Y. and Juliette

Cheney, both representatives of

In the common schools
shire, John M. Cheney
and afterward entered

Institute of New

a daughter of

the late William Curry, th
merchant of Key West who

cantile

house

Curry'

Harris have an only daughter,

accomplished
convent at Key
young ladies a

young lady
r West and in

Mawr.

of the city.

furnishings, which

s Sons.
Marian

Mr. and Mrs.

E. Harris,

lady who was educated

Miss Wright's

in the

School

The Harris home is not
iful but also one of the
It is a palatial residence,

was designed

by Mr.

subservient

A native

y 6, i859,
(McNab)

old Vermont families.

of Woodville,

pursued

his early

New Hamp-
Ilv education

the New Hampton Literart

Hampton, New

was graduated

with the class of 1881.

preparation for a professional career he attended

Boston

(Mass.)

Orlando, F
the practice
tive of the

awaited

Florida,

University
B. degree i
on the 8th

Law School,

in I885.

He located

of January, 1886,

of law and has since been a representa-

bar of

state.

No dreary

His comprehensive

novitiate

knowledge

ability soon won recognition that was manifest

growmg
cessfully

clientage,

and he continued

actively and

in the private practice of law until appointed

Harris, who also made the
of the adjacent grounds. TI

in 1899

and has since been the

social

to the position of

the meantime,

scene

functions.

United

States

however,

was elected

district
Id other

judge.
offices.

city attorney of Orlando and

was appointed supervisor of

census for Florida

is a member

of Trade and of th
interested in all the
organizations for the 1
city. His religious

Key West. Board
Commerce and is

those

McKinley. Higher honors were conferred
1906, when President Roosevelt appointed

States

attorney

for the southern

district

betterment

faith is

Episcopal

position

President

Taft, who continued

him in the

belief is that of the democratic

the Masons
of his recre-
the present

office until July, 1912, anid then appointed him United
States district judge for'the southern district of Flor-
ida. He took the oath of office on the 2d of Septem-
ber of that year and presided as judge over the United

WI

FLO

RIDA

States district

court until March 4, 1913,

when a

which he was graduated in

Immediately after,

deadlock

in the senate

Taft's appointees

prevented

being confirmed.

any of President
Retiring from the

bench, he resumed the practice of law on the Ist

ward he entered a bank as clerk, thus beginning his
connection with the banking business, in which he has
since attained prominence and importance. His resi-

May, 1913, at Orlando.

His broad experience

dence in Florida

dates from 1894, in which year he

comprehensive knowledge of the principles

prudence assure him a

continuance

of the liberal clien-

of juris-
eral clien-

went to De Land, where he entered the Volusia County

a connection which he still

maintains.

tage wh
judicial
owning

lich was

duties.

given him before
In addition he ha

he entered upon his

is other

connections,

a controlling interest in the Orlando

Water

gained rapid advancement, winning

the regard

of his

associates and the trust and confidence of his superi-
ors, and so conspicuous was his financial ability that

Company,

corporation

that supplies the

upon the organization

of the

Daytona

branch under

of Orlando

with water,

ice, gas

and electric

the name of the Merchants Bank he was made

current.
In Bristol, New Hampshire,
ber, 1886, Judge Cheney was

manager

on the 23d

of Novem-

united in marriage

Miss Elizabeth Alexander, of that city,

of Horace T.

Alexander.

a daughter

Mrs. Cheney belongs to the

and later cashier,

still holds and which

is in itself

ity and his high standing in
Merchants Bank of Daytona w

under the charter of the

a position

which he

a proof of his abil-

financial circles.
ias opened June I,

Volusia County

Bank, which

I896,
which

Florida chapter of the Daughters of the

Revolution and is connect
literary and social clubs.
riage are Miss Glenn A.,

Judge Cheney has

republican

American

ed with several prominent
The children of this mar-
Donald A. and Joseph Y.

ever given

and has been

his allegiance to the
one of its foremost

has been doing

business

a quarter of a century.

in the

county for more than

This latter institution

the fourth state bank organized under the laws of

the state of Florida and has
growth from the beginning. I
lished depositories for the state.

shown

a substantial

is one of the estab-
The Daytona branch

leaders since coming to this state.

candidate foi
ida-in 1900oo

r congress in the second

again

in I904,

was twice

district

and in

a candidate for gubernatorial honors.
the political situation of the country is

and thorough and he disp
affairs. His fraternal
Lodge, F. & A. M., of w
ter in 1894; the Royal A
high priest in 1899; an
Order of Elks. He al

Country Club and has

of Flor-

Igo8 he was
His study of

s comprehensive

h and he displays a statesmanlike grasp of
relations are with Orlando

F. & A. M., of which he

Arch Chapter,

was worshipful mas-

of which he

was

in 1899; and the Benevolent Protective

He also belongs

to the Orlando

attractive social qualities

which

a has had a continuous growth

since its

organization, as

is shown by the report of the board

of ganizaretors
of directors

which carefully examined the records of the

for the year
remarkable i

business

1912 and found them to show a very

increase,

the deposits

full one-fourth during the

business.

On March

was chartered

having

grown

past twelve months

27, 1913, the

as a separate

business with a paid-in capital of

Merchants Bank

institution and began
one hundred thou-

sand dollars and a surplus of twenty-five thousand

dollars;

deposits amount to one million,

three thousand dollars.

The building

and thirty-
is new and

bring him personal popularity,
a lawyer and judge has gained
prominence.

while his ability as
:d him professional

represents a value of thirty-seven thousand

a fine Indiana sandstone structure,

seventy

modern in

every

dollars,

thirty-seven

particular and

equipped with all the accessories necessary for

convenience

of the

patrons.

In addition to this build-

ing, which

was erected in. 191, the bank owns their

FREDERICK

N. CONRAD.

old establishment.

The two bank buildings

of the

Frederick

N. Conrad,

recognized as a

leader in fi-

Volusia
are by

County

and the Merchants Banks

far the finest in the

of Daytona

state of Florida outside

nancial
cashier
nected
terests,

and general business circles of Daytona,

of the Merchants

Bank and

prominently con-

with various other corporate and business

all important

as factors in the general

growth

of the city. He is a man of initiative, enterprise and
ability and by virtue of these qualities has steadily

of those

in the

Tampa, which

none finer

cities of Jacksonville,

have larger

Pensacola

banks and larger buildings

or more convenient.

credit for the rapid expansion
is due to Mr. Conrad, who

Much of the

of the Merchants Bank

given

largely of his

time and efforts to promote the growth of the institu-

worked his

way upward in the business world until

tion along modem

his administrative and

execu-

his name is a synonym for. progress

and well

tive ability

evidencing themselves in his systematic

directed

business activity.

was born in

Seneca

work and his capable management of the important

New York,

and there acquired his education,

affairs

under his

charge.

In addition to his

connec-

also vice president

hI

_

who has

FLORIDA

of the Daytona Public

was one of

Service Company, of which he

orgamzers;

Realty Company;

president of the Conrad-

vice president and

treasurer

mission
enterprise

business

for himself

. for three years,

secure

and conducted his
g a large and repre-

sentative patronage in recognition of his honorable and

Arcade

Port Orange

Amusement Company; president of

Development Company;

the Heard National Bank of

of the Daytona Board

of Daytona

hardly
section

a phase

of Trade;

a director

Jacksonville; treasurer

treasure

t. Thus it may be seen that 1
of legitimate business activity

r of the
there is
in this

of the county in which he is not active and

upright
interests

business dealings.

In 1899 lihe

and entered the service of the

trolling the Mallory

at Key

West.

Steamship

He has remained

concern ever since, r
ing clerk to that of

finally on

disposed

of his

company con-

Line in the offices

connected

with this

from the position of bill-

bookkeeper,

the ist of January,

then cashier,

1913, winning

promo-

prominent, for he possesses the rare power of enlarg-

tion to the office

of agent, succeeding

Robert

ing and extending his interests without
impairing his efficiency. It is hard to dete
of his many activities have been most d

in any way
ermine which

directly

bene-

Southwick in

conscientious and

duties,

giving

that position.

He has proved

efficient in the

to the company

discharge

services

capable,
of his

of a valued

ticial since all have been consistently constructive and

progressive.
Mr. Conrad married, in

O'Connor, of

Minden,

daughter, Jean Frances.

connected

and trusted representative and

sighted

September,

1905,

Miss Kate

Michigan, and they have one

Fraternally Mr.

Conrad

the Benevolent Protective Order of

Elks and he is a member of

the Halifax

River Yacht

Club. He is well known throughout Volusia county

not only as

one of its foremost

financiers

and busi-

ness men but also as a man of straightforward

upright

character.

merits the confidence

respect of all who know him and is numbered among

a resourceful,

business man.

On April 28, 1892, Mr. Pinder married
line Elizabeth Saunders, also a native

is Bahama islands,

having
city.
three
lows :

Mrs. Pin<
children,

her father, William Uriah

Miss Caro-

S

one of the leading merchants

ler

died November II,

Abaco,
aunders,
of that

909g, leaving

one son and two daughters,

Edna Louise, who

was

George Meredith, born July 2
Elizabeth, whose birth occurred

Pinder is a member

born Jul

!2, 895g;
August <

as fol-

y 14, 1893;
and Fannie

of the Plymouth Brethren church

most substantial

citizens of the city and

Volusia

and politically is affiliated with the

democratic

county:

He is not active as an office seeker, preferring

concentrate his attention

upon the

discharge

of the

responsible
performance

RIDLEY CURTIS PINDER.

ganizing
success.

po

duties entrusted to him, bringing to their
an intelligence, business ability and or-
wer which form the foundation of his

Ridley C
connected \
local offices

stages

p

urtis

Pinder,

vith the Mallo

at Key
progress

of agent, is a native of

who since 1899 has been
'ry Steamship Line in the
, rising through successive

and advancement

to the position

L. D.

SMOOT.

the Bahama islands,

Abaco, June 7,

Finder,

were also

1871. His parents,

Uriah and Elinor

born in that city, but when the sub-

ject of this review was still a child moved to Key

West where

they continued to

reside

during the re-

In his

posi

L. D. Smoot
development a
lic work undi

tion as .chief engineer of J
has done much worthy of pi

and o0
er his

organization
direction.

acksonville,

of the system of
He is actuated

mainder of their

lives, the father dying

October

31, i899, when he was seventy-three years of age,

that he does by a spirit
added to his practical and

of progressiveness which,
comprehensive professional

and the mother
of sixty-eight.

In the

passing away

acquirement of

July 21, i897, at the age

an education

Pinder attended public school in Key

completing a course, in

in Poughkeepsie,

mneteen.

Eastman's

New York,

Ridley

Curtis

West, later

Business

graduating at

Returning home he obtained

College
the age
employ-

knowledge, proa
of the nation's

duces splendid results.

capital,

ington, August 31,
E. (Goldsborough)

having

1879, a
Smoot.

He is a native

been born in

Wash-

son of John D. and Mary

His early

education

was

acquired in the public schools of Washington and in

1896 he entered Cornell University,

for two years.

which he attended

He next became a student in

ment in a local commission
engaged in that line of work

house and he remained

others

George
for one
in those

Washington

University,

year, acquiring
two institutions.

the active practice of his

remained

In 1900oo he entered upon
profession in connection

s

;1

FLORIDA

with railroad
connecting ti
entered the

work in the

ie capital
depot qi

extension

of electric lines

with its suburbs.

lartermaster's

department

others.

He may not have genius or any

phenomenal

Ie characteristics, yet he is capable of mature judgment of
in his own capacities and of the people and circumstances

Washington and was given charge of road construc-

that make up his life contacts and experiences.

He is

tion around
Virginia.

the signal corps buildings at Fort

Returning to the District

he was connected with municipal

ous branches of

Meyer,

eminently

of Columbia,

engineering in vari- he now

the department, there remaining

a man of business sense

won for him the

occupies

ness, however,

position

in Jacksonville and the

has been but

and these qualities

prominence

state.

one phase and feature

years..

On the 9th

of October,

19II, he

appointed by the board of bond trustees of

sonville,
the city,
served.

Florida, to the position of

in which capacity

During his

been engaged in

tablishing str
making plans

sojourn

making

eet and

for drainage,

he has

chief engineer of
since acceptably

here he has principally

topographical surveys, in es-
rade improvements, and in

sewer

water exten-

existence

and has

not precluded

his activil

support of many measures which have had

object the upbuilding and welfare of

native

ty in and
for their

state.

of Florida, Mr. Upchurch was

Callahan on the loth of March,

iel S. and Sarah
on the paternal
maternal is of I

A. (Parker)

, i86t, a son of
Upchurch. TI

side is of Scotch
French Huguenot <

born

Nathan-
te family

descent, while the
ririn and the first

sons.

electric

He is also the author if a plan to place all

light and

underground

power lines

in the

business

section

and bring about an entire reorganization

of all the seven branches

supervision. He
his control in all
of the business c,

great strides

has about eij
departments

to be placed under his

ghty engineers under
and has each branch

carefully systematized.
for the benefit of th

the departments" and has
stantial good.

On the 2oth of January,

marriage

already

19OO,

to Miss Loraine

of Philadelphia, and they have four ;

John Alden,

American ancestor settled in North Carolina in colonial

days. In 185
removed with

county.
in those

;8 Nathaniel
his family to

He was a man
early days wa

S. Upchurch, the father,

Florida,

settling in

Nassau

of notable intelligence and even

s a successful

His wife belonged to one of

He is mak-

real-estate

the oldest

agent.

families

both ancestral lines

received

accomplished

Mr. Smoot. was
P. Williamson,
sons: Lloyd D.,

inheritance

sterling qualities which ever command

appreciation.
:h of education

The father, realizing the
as a preparation for life

respect

value

practical

and responsible duties, sent his son to the public schools

when

Kenneth McLean and

advanced

as far as pos-

ing his college
the Sigma Chi
Society of Civ
a Mason. He
his profession

reached an enviable

engineer

Mr. Smoot

became

and he is a member

a member

of the American

'il Engineers. He is both an Elk and
has made continuous advancement in

increasing

and responsible

position

lity has
as chief

of Jacksonville.

Carolina.
South at

He afterward entered the University

Sewanee, Tennessee,

educational institutions ii
He started in the business

one of the noted

part of the country.
in 1882, then a young

man of twenty-one years, turning his attention to the

manufacture of

He owned and operated

a logging

business

so wisely

directed

grew ana win
tend the scope

his business interests that his patronage
uin a few years he was enabled to ex-

of his interests by the

establishment

another lumber manufacturing plant,

Florida became a center of interest

to enter-

uprising business men many decades ago, the lumber
industry has been one of its chief sources of wealth,

and among those who have made their

fortunes

in the

at Race I
extended

Georgia.

his business

across

political circles.

interests
; citizen-

and became a recognized leader
In 1886 Nassau county elected I

conduct

of the lumber business or subsidiary interests

Jacksonville.

He is a man

as its representative in the general assembly,

enjoyed

the distinction

where he

first democrat that

of keen
utilized

enterprise who has readily

opportunities

that others have

recognized

county

passed heed-

meantime

his business interests

continued

history

is the

progression under the steady hand of

consistent master

harmonious and well balanced.

strong character

story of an orderly

one who is
e organism

He possesses also a

and one that inspires

whose

confidence in

grow

and develop as the result

and recognition and improvement

is 1809

he became

church Company,
tion as one of the

of his initiative sl
t of opportunities.

:he partners in the D
has since maintained

Since

a posi-

'(9

FLORIDA

Jacksonville but of

facture
larging

the state.

of lumber on
and improving

removed from

state.

They began the manu-
grc

an extensive

i

the plant, which in

Race Pond,

Mr. Upchurch

company and removed

order to

more capably

greatly
I895

Georgia, to Moniac,

became

treasurer of

his headquarters to Moniac

direct

the firm at that point. TI
almost phenomenal growth.

increased
nual figure

the growing interests

he business

has enjoyed

Year by year its patronage

until its sales reached a most gratifying

re.

every

Mr. Upchurch

phase of the

tion of the timber

the market
ests of the

is thoroughly

lumber trade from

in the forest until it

a finished product.

business in principle and

an-

familiar
the selec-

is placed upon

He guided the

inter-

detail, formulated

died after a brief married

Some years later he

wedded Belle W. Upchurch, a daughter of

church,
dren :
first ma
F. by tl

of Raleigh,

George
marriage;

North Carolina.

He h

W. G. Up-
as six chil-

H., John J., Jr., and Frank D. by the
and Susie E., Garland L. and Marion

he second.

Mr. Upchurch
Germania Club.

belongs to the

He has

active factor in democratic

opinions

carry

weight

ing element in shaping

religious belief

which he

guided him

is that

is most loyal.

in his

relations

Seminole Club and the

long been recognized

circles

as an

in the state and

its councils and fo
its policy and act
of the Methodist
High principles

orm a guid-
;ivity. His
church, to

ever

with his fellowmen and

the conduct of his business affairs and it is well known

his plans carefully and
As a result thereof the

was prompt in their execution.

business

kept growing

that he holds

a high

standard

of business

ethics.

and for

some time

Mr. Upchurch concentrated his energies

upon this

undertaking.

Georgia

regarded him

representative a citizen as

as a valuable,
did Florida an

worthy and
d three times

HON. RHYDON M.

CALL.

honored him with election to the state legislature,

serv-

In the

year 1893 Rhydon M.

Call received

ing during the terms of I895
from the fourth district, while
represented his county in the hou

term he was again a member
in shaping much constructive

and 1896 as senator
in 1899 and 1900oo he
se. In the succeeding
the senate and aided

legislation

pointment to the

circuit

court

bench

and for

than twenty years presided over that court in Jack-

sonville, until on Marc
by President Woodrow
iudee for the southern

26, 1913, he
Wilson United

district

was appointed
States district
rida, assuming

period of six years.
possibilities of the
immediate benefits 1

He recognized the

state and

needs

and the

duties

labored not only for

I, 1913.

member of

excep-

the bar in this city

continuous connection

business interests were extending

only in scope and volume but

ing it impossible

also in variety

to longer

concentrate his

ability, knowledge
have ever kept hin
fession in Florida.

conscientiousness

service

energies

upon a single undertaking, he removed to

establish

office and

headquarters there and from that point supervise all of

his varied c
opportunities

concerns.

He is constantly watchful

for profitable investment of the

which continues to flow

and industrial

from his numerous commercial

enterprises

has won in business
men of the state.

circles ranks

position which he
m with the leading

He is now treasurer of

Upchurch Investment Company, president

anuary 13,

Florida, his parents being

(Mays)

natives

George

of Kentucky

lina respectively.

his uncle, R
the paternal
practicing pi

Major George
Keys Railroad

and laid out the town of

3, in Fernandina,
W. and Starke

and South

The family came to Florida

K. Call, was

grandfather,

George

territorial governor,
W. Call, who was a

physician, settling in Leon county,

W. Call was attorney for the Cedar

of its

Fernandina,

construction
in which he

Lumber Company and vice

p

Development Company. I
United States Trust and

Of him it has been said:
sive and enterprising st

is with

he always

his time

opportunity of

president of the
HIe is vice presi-

Savings

Bank.

"He is noted for his progres-
rit. which is of such a char-

is as ready

means

as he

and talents, wherever he recognizes an

advancing the

best interests of the peo-

or his state."
F April, I890, occurred the marriage of
and Miss Susie Hawkins, a daughter
awkins, of Kings Ferry, Florida, who

made his home.

He was a gallant officer of the Second

Regiment in the

the battle of Seven

front as captain

Pine

of his

rank of major when he
Rhydon M.; and Sarah,

Civil war
s in 1862.
company,
fell. He

Judge Call was but four years

his father's
maternal gr
(Smith) M

serving

with the

of age at the time of

and was reared

grandparents, Dr. Rhydon G. and Sarah B.
.ays. It was while spending his youthful

orange
primary

ranch in Putnam county
education. He attended

FLORIDA

vate schools

and pursued his

academic course in the

Washington and Lee University at Lexington,

ginia, after which he entered
in that -institution and was
g

degree
of Vii

in 1878.

ginia,

upon the study

radnated

He was at once

but did

not begin

O

Vir-
f law

with the B. L.

fare and progress of
few men in judicial
period, and none has
fearless in conduct or

and state.

service

The record

extends over

been more
stainless in

faultless

a longer
in honor,

reputation.

admitted to the bar

to practice

until two

years later, when he opened an office in Jacksonville
and entered upon the active work of the profession.

In this connection it has been

WILLIAM

RANDOLPH PORTER.

said of him:

remarkably short time he thoroughly established
self as a lawyer of unusual ability and from that
he has been prominently identified with the legal

fession
advocate

of the state.
and as circuit

opinions of his contemporaries

the third

oldest

the first has

lorida district, entering up
3. Judge Call is well fitted
distinguished

William Randolph
and general manager

pany,

Both in the capacity of an

has he won the golden
s." Judge Call is now

practitioner in Jacksonville and from

maintained an enviable position at the bar

of this city, early proving his

intricate

and involved problems of the law.

low townsmen,

appreciative

with the
His fel-

of his public spirit

his ability, have frequently called him to positions of

honor and trust,
most creditable.
that of member

chosen

in 1882,

and his record has at all times

The first

office that he ever held was

of the city council, to
continuously serving

during which period he

tives in
ments.
Cleveland

exercised his official

support of many progressive pu
He was district attorney under

first administration and

tor of Duval county.

He served in

which he was

six years,
1 preroga-

blic move-
President

was county solici-
the former posi-

tion for two years, or until succeeded by a republican

appointee, an
him county s
until June 3
position on t
tendered him

mained

id in 1891 Governor Fleming

solicitor,

in which position he

when he

appointed
continued

resigned to accept a

he bench of the fourth judicial

by Governor Mitchell.

circuit,

Judge Call re-

upon the circuit bench by reason of suc-

cessive appointments,

and his twenty years'

were characterized by a masterful grasp of
lems presented for solution. On March

Judge
United

tl

service
ie prob-

1913,

Call was appointed by the president of the

States,

the southern
April I, 1913.
portant and

Woodrow

Wilson, district judge

profound legal knowledge,
sive experience.
On the 2d of March, 188
riage of Judge Call and

a daughter of

Henry E.

upon his duties
for this im-

position on account of his

his ability and

his exten-

was celebrated the mar-

I Miss Ida Caroline Holmes,
Holmes of Jacksonville. They

had one child, George W., now a student in

ington an
16, 1896.

and Lee University.

Mrs. Call died

the Wash-
December

Judge Call belongs to the Seminole Club

and the Church Club.
along those lines which

His interests chiefly center
we most to do with the wel-

occupies a leadi

cles of the country's
an active factor in
West in recent years
upon the substantial

Porter, as
of the Key
ng position

secretary,
West Re
in the bu

southernmost city.

the rapid

treasurer
ealty Com-
siness cir-

He has been

development of Key

and his success

qualities

has been based

of energy

was born here May 12,

son of Dr.

citizen ot F londa who for the past qua
tury has been the state health officer.
Porter has spent his entire life in his n

Joseph Yates

enter-

and is the

Porter, a distinguished

the exception of two

years

He completed his education
North Carolina, finishing a

by graduation
succeeding tw<

with the

) years he was

passed

in

at Binghan
four years'

class of 1889.

an employee

.rter of a t
William

Ltive city with
Jacksonville.

IS

school

course there
During the
in the State

Bank of Florida at Jacksonville and then returned

Key West,

where he established

real-estate agency.

devoted his

suiting

a fire insurance and

To this business

attention in a

in the attainment of

twenty-two years he has

he has

most capable manner,
substantial success.

represented a large

in fire insurance and real estate

member of

being
at Ke:
Bank.

George
v West

clientage

and is now the senior

the Porter-Allen Company,

W. Allen, recently collector of
and the president of the First

In I9o4 Mr. Porter became one

izers and incorporators of the

pany and was made se
as its general manager,

George W. Alien
the company. T
lows the practice
has negotiated n

being
he Ke

cretary
which
his pa:
v West

Wes

partner
customs
National

of the organ-
t Realty Com-

and treasurer as

position he yet holds,

rtner and

president

Realty Company

of handling its own real estate

iany important property

The Porter-Allen Company

surance business

in Key

is an important factor.
and in the pursuit of a

transfers.

does the largest fire

West.

In both Mr.

Porter

His enterprise is unfaltering

persistent

with a most satisfactory reward.

other
Bank.

interests

On the Igth

united

marriage

Alabama, a daughter

who up

purpose
Jn ad

he has met

addition to his

of the First National

of January, 1898, Mr. P
to Miss Grace Dorgan, o
of Major Lyman C.

to the time of his death,

Porter

was

of Mobile,
. Dorgan,

about twelve years

l's

he is a director

aduated

"* .

district,

m

It I I I

Florida

ago, was one c
nred citizens.

>f

Mobile's

most prominent and

Mr. and Mrs. Porter have one child,

a daughter, Jessie, now

various

their objec
labors and
productive
the board

has been
sioners.

Porter

fourteen years of age.

is a Mason

the Elks lodge.
municipal plans

and is

a past

e

Fra-
exalted

He has been identified with

and projects which

the betterment of

conditions

have for
s and his

ideas are at all times of a practical nature,

of good
of public

a member

While

and of constantly

results. H
works and

of the board

[e is now chairman of

for the

six years

of county commis-

his business interests are extensive

growing

found time and opportunity

affairs,

being never neglectful

importance,

he has

ever

to cooperate in public
of any duty of citizen-

ary of the same year came to Miami, which was at

that time

sprngnmg

existence.

A railroad

was built into the

the time
few had

Mr. Lummus t(
preceded him

his residence

here very

to the townsite and he was

the second man to erect a business house in the com-

munity.

soon as his building was completed he

established himself in the mercantile business here
and until 19o8 conducted a large establishment, win-

a representative

selected line

reasonable

of goods,

prices.

patronage by reason of his well

courteous

When he severed

service

and his

his connection

with merchandising

tion to banking,

of Bay

becoming

Biscayne and

vice president of the

atten-
Bank

winning advancement

ship; on the contrary it is

of Key West's
cooperation can
the city's welfa

recognized

foremost residents and his

be counted

re

at all time

e is one
aid and
s where

are involved.

lowing year to the presid<
office which he now holds.
is one of the strongest and

tutions
the city.

encv

of the institution,

The Bank of Bay Biscayne
best known financial insti-

is besides

the oldest bank in

It has a capital of one hundred

thousand

its business is constantly increasing

in volume

JAMES

s position

E. LUMMUS.

as president

importance.
directed its

of the Bank of

Biscayne and through the force of his great abil-

ity and business

discrimination James E. Lummus is

of its

As its

head Mr. Lummus has largely

policies and

present

and executive ability.

city's leading

controlled its

prosperity is due to

He is numbered
his judgment be

financiers,

growth

organmz-
I among

con-

a central

figure in financial circles of Miami, where

he is honored

as one of the

pioneer

builders

sidered
finance.

thoroughly sound on matters of banking and
In addition to his connection with the Bank

the city. H
23, 1867, at
(Epperson)

e was born in Bronson,
nd is a son of Ezekiel

Lummus,

natives

Florida, December
S. and Frances J.

of Georgia,

where their

of Bay Biscayne he is

various

a stockholder

other financial institutions

In Arcadia,

Louisiana,

in 1893,

and director

of the city.
Mr. Lummus

mar-

marriage

war.

occurred at the time

In 1867 they

of the close of the

removed

locat-

tried Miss Georgie

Georgie

Elizabeth,

Brown and they have a daughter,
who is nine years of age. Mr.

in Levy county, near Bronson.

a veteran o
that conflict

f the Civil war,

in the

Confederate

James E. Lummus was reared

county, remaining

upon

was seventeen years of age.

to Bronson and t
suits, becoming a

turned his

having

The father was
served through

army.
to manhood in

his father's

At that time he went

attention

to business

clerk in a store there and remaining

Lummus is

South.

one of the leaders
city's interests and
prominent in public
of the city and serve
an able, constructive

making his

official

a member

of the Methodis

Since coming

to Miami

in all projects
he has through

affairs.

it Episcopal
he has been

for advancing the
ut the period been

He was the second mayor

ed three years, giving to the people
re and businesslike administration,

service equal his business

enter-

capacity for three years.
he entered Eastman's

Poughkeepsie,
ated in i888.
position as. a
when he went

conducted a

year he again

New York,

At the
Business

as a force in

community

development.

College in

from which he was gradu-

Returning to Bronson, h
clerk and continued in
to Fort Fannin, where

mercantile store of his own.

went to Bronson

W. Epperson,

.concern

ie resumed
it until li

THOMAS

EDWARD

FITZGERALD.

one year

Thomas Edward Fitzgerald, who combines prom-

a partner-
ihe general
conducted

mence

success
his lega

activity

in journalism has won

in both lines of work which claim his interest,

1

patronage

representative

and

ant and his two papers--the Gazette-News

[ import-
and the

FLORIDA

10o, 1879, and is a son of M. C. and Catherine

bert) Fitzgerald, who moved

to Ellsworth,

(Lam-
Viscon-

sin, when the subject of this review was still a child.

Thomas Edward ]
in Ellsworth and t
journalism, his first

on the Eagle.

Fitzgerald, acquired his

there

education

began his connection with

position

He afterward

being
served

as printer s d
as apprentice

the Ellsworth Gleaner and thoroughly mastered the

printer's trade,
pleton (Minn.)

rising
Press

to Florida, settling at

identified

himself

ing the Gazette-News,

edits.
March,

in it to be foreman of the

In January,

1901, ne came
he immediately

purchas-

I.

Daytona, where

with journalistic interests,

which he

now controls and

The Gazette was established at Ormond

F. A. Mann.

property of L. M.

It later became tlhe

Murray, who brought it to Day-

tona, where it was consolidated with

a weekly, published

E. V. Blackman.

the News,

Mr. Mur-

ray sold the Gazette-News to Marie E. Mann, a

ter of the

founder of the

transferred the paper, in

Fitzgerald,
possibilities

the present editor,
and brought it to

Gazette, and she

January,

1900,

who has de
the position

the leading journals of Volusia county.

r. Mur-
daugh-
in turn

Mr. Fitzgerald served for three years as quarter-

master
Second

commissary

Regiment,

rank of lieutenant.

Florida

of the Second
National Guard,

His fraternal affiliation

tensive and representative,
Chapter and Commandery in

is a member of

the Nobles of

is affiliated with the Independent

and i

s past

Daytona

exalted

ruler and

Lodge, No. 1141,

B. P. O.

as delegate to the grand lodge

Battalion,
with the
IS are ex-

for he belongs to
the Masonic order

the Mystic

Order

Shrine.

of Foresters

a charter member of

of that
of that

He served

organization at

the convention held in July, 1911, at Atlantic
and also at the convention held in Portland,

in July,

Halifax
retary
tion.

River

1912.
Yacht

of the Florida
In his political

Socially
Club and w
East Coast
il views he

democrat and his political,

him in

business

a foremost

honored and valued

he belongs

t

'as for two years

City,
Ore-
o the

sec-

Automobile Associa-
* has always been a

and social

position

among

citizens.

to T. E.

veloped its
of one of

George

HOWELL H.

ISLER.

Crouch

bought and

conducted the Gazette-News for

period of one year but at the expiration

time Mr. Fitzgerald
has continued to be

of that

again assumed ownership and his

guiding

hand in

its publica-

tion. The Gazette-News Company has for the

eight years also issued a resort dai
Daily News, published during the mo
her, January, February and March.

e Gazette-News
T. E. Fitzgerald

C. S. Harris,

secretary and

Aside from journalism
of the most prominent and

tona,
much
John I
mitted

two yea
elected

extensive

ly,

the Daytona

,nths of
These

Decem-
papers

Company, a cor-
is president and

treasurer.

Mr. Fitzgerald is also one
successful lawyers in Day-

patronage connecting him

important litigation.
B. Stetson University
to the bar in April, 1

irs

he was elected

He studied law at

at De
905.

and was

After practicing

city attorney

in xgo8. Resigning the position he

into partnership

tion still continues and

est in the

important

with E. F. Oates.

was re-
entered

Their associa-

the firm is one of the strong-

connected through

its practice

legal business.

Mr. Fitzgerald married,

on August
daughter of
berman and

an attract

they have made
friends.

in Minneapolis,

I1o 190, V, M iss u.nna
Tohn S. Vandewater,

11 owner
ive homr

a center

Minnesota,

Vandewater,

Howell H. I
superintendent

in this

Isler, ably filling the

of schools

section September

position

of Leon county,

I7, 1874,

Mary (Wiggins) Isler,
engaged in teaching all

of county
was born

a son of Thomas

natives of
during his

prominent in educational circles.
also as a veteran of the Civil war,

Confederate army as a private.
the hand at the second battle o

honorably

discharged

was for many years

time of
master

and makes

was

He was honored
having served in the

Gettysburg

at the close of hostilities.

a justice

his death, July 28,

her home in Tallah:

three children were born:

jamin Isler,
police of Ta
Howell H

of Leon county;

llahassee; ;
. Isler was

and at the age

career, e
followed

ngagmng

reared

peace

and at the

i, was serving as post-
His wife survives him
issee. To their union
ttie, the wife of Ben-
Erastus R., chief of
rell H.. of this review.

his father's

of eighteen began his independent
in teaching, an occupation which he

for seven years thereafter.
he established himself as

Tallahassee, his straightforward business methods and
honorable dealings winning for him a large patron-

age. In November,

perintendent

Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald

e in Daytona
of hospitality

Beach,
for their

served,

1912, he

of schools of Leon county and has

proving

practical,

far-sighted

and conscien-

discharge

On November
Sadie Sloan, of I

I5, 1905,

married

\

J f

I

k
j

.*

___~_~

&a

in turn

FLORIDA

children, Thomas J., Bessie Louise and William E.
Mr. Isler belongs to the Baptist church, and politically
is affiliated with the democratic party. He is a mem-
ber of the Columbia Woodmen and the Woodmen
of the World and in social and official life is recog-
nized as a man of genuine personal worth who has
won the respect and esteem of all with whom he has
come in contact.

JOHN LOWE, JR.

Key West owns John Lowe, Jr., as its oldest na-
tive citizen and one of its best known merchants and
business men. He has always resided here, his birth
occurring at the family home in Key West, March
I, 1833, so that he has now passed the eightieth
milestone on life's journey. His father, John Lowe,
was born on Green Turtle Key, of the Bahama islands,
and was a' sea captain and seafaring man. He mar-
ried Bianca Kemp in early manhood and together they
removed to Key West, a short time before the birth
of their son, John Lowe, Jr. At different times the
father served as captain of a number of vessels sail-
ing the waters adjacent to Key West. He had a long
and eventful career. On one occasion it was believed
that he was drowned but he was resuscitated and lived
to the advanced age of eighty-nine years, his remains
being now interred in Key West cemetery by the side
of his good wife, who had died a few years previously.
Their family numbered nine children, five of whom
were born in the Bahamas, and the other four in Key
West, following the arrival in this city. Of the nine
four are yet living, namely: John; Mrs. Mary Lowe,
a widow; Mrs. Amelia Delaney, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and William H., of Key West.
John Lowe, Jr., acquired his education in Key West
but his opportunities in that direction were very lim-
ited. He probably did not attend school more than
six months altogether but experience has been his
teacher and under her direction he has learned many
valuable lessons. When a lad he frequently accom-
panied his father to sea and thus became familiar
with various phases of seafaring life and boating.
At the remarkably early age of thirteen years he was
given a license of ship master and made several side
trips to nearby points. At fifteen years of age he
entered the employ of his brother-in-law, the late
William Curry, of Key West, who up to the time of
his death a few years ago was the most prominent
merchant of this city. Mr. Lowe remained in Mr.
Curry's business for thirty years, serving successively
as clerk, salesman and manager in that well known

mercantile house.

He finally retired from his posi-

tion and embarked in merchandising on his own ac-
count, conducting a large store for thirty-five years.
The business is still in existence, being now owned
and carried on by his sons to whom it was turned
over several years ago that the father might be re-
lieved to some extent of arduous business cares. For
.- about sixth fve years Mr. Lowe was closely associ-
ated with commercial interests in Key West and
throughout the entire period maintained an unassail-
able reputation for business integrity as well as en-
terprise and progressiveness. During all this period
he also owned and operated a sponge fleet and in fact
the sponge industry for many years was his chief
business, it reaching such extensive proportions that
it overshadowed his mercantile interests. At one time
when the sponge industry was at its greatest height
in the waters adjacent to Key West Mr. Lowe had a
fleet of fifteen vessels which he operated in connec-
tion with the gathering of sponges. This indicates
something of the mammoth proportions to which the
business attained.
Fifty-five years ago or in i858 there was celebrated,
in the Lowe family home at Key West, the marriage
of John Lowe, Jr., and Miss Mary Elizabeth Lowe,
the wedding ceremony being performed by the Rev.
O. E. Herrick. These worthy people are still travel-
ing life's journey happily together as man and wife,
enjoying excellent health. They became the parents
of seven children of whom their first born, Emma L.,
died at the age of three years. The others were: Ed-
ward L.; Emma L., who became the wife of Philip J.
Bayly, but both she and her husband are now de-
ceased; Eugene, who died at the age of eight years;
George L., who is cashier of the First National Bank
of Key West; Stephen F., who is in charge of the
mercantile house of John Lowe Jr.'s Sons; and
Charles R., who died at the age of thirty. The eldest

son, Edward L
tile business of
In religious f
his entire life

., is also connected with the mer
John Lowe Jr.'s Sons.
aith Mr. Lowe is an Episcopalian
has exemplified the teachings of

can-

and
the

Christian faith. Though he has recently passed his
eightieth birthday he is yet enjoying good health and
would readily pass for a man twenty years his junior.
He is strong and vigorous, his eyesight and hearing
are good and he bids fair to live for many years to
come. In the memorable hurricane which spread
over the coast in 1909 Mr. Lowe suffered a property
loss of over thirty thousand dollars but his accumu-
lations previous to that time prevented this from
causing him any serious financial embarrassment. In
fact his well directed business interests have brought
to him substantial returns, enabling him in the even-
ing of life to spend his days in rest from further
labor, surrounded with all of the comforts and many

FLORIDA

which go to make life worth living.
of the city's best known residents and
personal worth is acknowledged by all.

EUGENE EDGAR

WEST.

A man of great natural ability, Eugene Edgar West
has won success in business since he made his initial
step in commercial circles. His advancement has been
uniform and rapid and has been truly merited, for
after all that may be done for a man in the way of
giving him opportunities for obtaining the advantages
which are sought in the schools and in books he must
eventually formulate, determine and give shape to his
own character, and this is what Mr. West has done.
He is persevering in the pursuit of a persistent pur-
pose and has gained a most satisfactory reward. His
life is exemplary in many respects and he has sup-
ported interests which are calculated to uplift human-
ity while his own high moral worth is deserving of
warm commendation. Jacksonville is proud to number
him among her citizens. He is a southern man in the
best sense of the term. His birth occurred in Brooks
county, Georgia, July I, 1857, and he comes of Scotch

and English origin, his paternal ancestors
pioneer settlers of North Carolina, where
tives of the name participated in the Indian
wars, while a number of the family fought
can liberty in the War of the Revolution.

having been
representa-
and colonial
for Ameri-
Mr. West

also had numerous relatives who were in the Con-
federate army and his oldest brother was killed while
on active duty near Richmond, Virginia. James West,
the father, was a splendid type of the ante-bellum
planter and southern gentleman. He was born in
North Carolina in 1811 and in 1830 removed to Georgia,
where he wedded Mary Ann Hunter, a native of that
state. Nature endowed him with a strong mind and
though he may not have had the school advantages of
many, in the school of experience he learned valuable
lessons and became a man of wide influence in political
circles as well as in private life. In 1850 he was
chosen to represent his district in the state senate and
was the author and champion of the bill which created
Brooks county from portions of Lowndes and Thomas
counties. During the Civil war he became a member
of the State Militia. In 1863 he removed from Brooks
to Madison county, where his remaining days were
passed upon the home farm. His fortune was largely
swept away by the Civil war but he always remained a
hospitable host and a kindly, charitable man, noted
for his kindness to, and consideration for, his slaves
as well as for his equals.

of the luxuries
He is today one
his business and

The exigencies of war having destroyed the fortunes
of the family, the four sons of James West were thus
thrown upon their own resources. They had wise home
teaching and a beautiful environment which developed
kindly consideration for, and helpfulness toward, each
other. These traits have been manifest throughout
their entire lives and their love and labor for each
other have been notable and touching. They started
out without capital save health, strength, energy and
determination, and fortune has been won by all. The
eldest surviving son, W. S. West, is now a distinguished
lawyer of Georgia and also one of the prominent rep-
resentatives of democracy in that state, having served
almost continuously as a member of the legislature
since I892. He has taken a prominent stand in regard
to many vital and significant legislative problems and
for ten years before he secured its enactment was the
champion of the uniform text-book law. He was also
a strong advocate of bills to erect a new passenger
station for the Western & Atlantic Railroad in At-
lanta and to provide for the next leasing of that road
at sixty thousand dollars per month. His labors were
also largely instrumental in securing the passage of
the bill resulting in the establishment of the Agricul-
tural, Industrial and Normal College in South Georgia
and at the session of I905-6 he presided over the state
senate as its president, in which connection he added
new laurels to those which he had previously won. An-
other son of the family, Abram Hunter West, of Jack-
sonville, has large interests in plantations, in lumber
and in manufacturing industries and enterprises of
various character, having gained a most creditable
position in business circles. The third son, John W.
West, is extensively connected with various industrial
and commercial enterprises and like the others has
been conspicuously successful.
The record of Eugene E. West is in harmony with
that of his brothers. He had only such educational
opportunities as he could obtain in private schools of
Madison and Brooks counties but his ideal home
training stimulated his ambition and directed his en-
ergies, and upon the excellent foundation of character,
of ability and enterprise, laid in his home surroundings,
he started out to build the superstructure of success.
Nature endowed him with a strong constitution. More-
over, it is well known that power grows through the
exercise of activity and his intelligently directed labors
have constituted the source'of his continuous advance-
ment. He was first associated with his brothers in a
business way but when he had reached a point that
would make such a course practicable he branched
out independently in connection with the manufacture
of turpentine and lumber. He gave unfaltering at-
tention to the development and control of the business
and, as the years have passed by, has gained a place

tt Lz/~f

FLORIDA

among the

substantial

and prosperous residents of the

state. His judgment has been seldom if

ever at

he has recognized and utilized opportunities that others

have passed hee
the coordination

dlessly by and has secured

of seemingly diverse

he has brought into a unified whole.

the nature and

present

extent

of his

time is indicated

dent of the Ellavill
and is extensively
tine business under

le,

Wes

business

results

elements which

Something

interests

by the fact that he is
it Lake & Jennings R;

at the
presi-
ailroad

engaged in the lumber and turpen-
.r his own name. He is likewise

here became

ceeding

the proprietor

a general

his uncle, John McDougall,

Tallahassee and a large landowner.

Dougall

soon became

business prospered

securing

for him

For about

postmaster under
after the latter's

to succeed
July of the

1

a pioneer
Alexander '

well known in the city and his

, his honorable and upright methods
a large and representative patron-

twenty years

he served

as assistant

his brother, John McDougall, and

death, April

23, 1912,

to the office, entering

same year.

He has

was appointed

upon his d
since done

duties

a great

part owner of the

West

valuable real estate

office building as well

in Jacksonville

and is

as other
a stock-

deal of practical and able work and is managing the

affairs

of the department in

a thoroughly

businesslike

holder in the Heard National Bank of this city.

On the 28th of February,

in wedlock to Miss

of John V
Augustine.

three of whom

1889, Mr.

West was joined

Louise Frances Brady,

i. and Louisa

became

A. (Lourcey)
the parents of

are living, E. E.

Hunter West and Lois Evlyn
Mr. West belongs to the Se
Clubs and his fraternal relatio

West.
eminole

a daughter

Brady,

of St.

five children,
, Jr., Joseph

and the

ns are with

Osceola

the Benevo-

and efficient way.
Mr. McDougall married Miss

they have become

at home;
lahassee;

Eliza Brokaw and

e the parents of five children: John,
the wife of James Messer, of Tal-

Mary, who married

W. S. Quaterman,

Tallahassee; and Peres and Abram C., both of whom

reside at home. Mr.
political beliefs, and

church.

In all of his

McDougall is a republican in his

is a member of the

business

Presbyterian

and official

dealings

lent Protective Order of

Elks, the Travelers Protective

Association and the Concatenated Order

of Hoo Hoos,

which is a social organization among lumbermen. He
is an active democrat but is interested in politics solely
for the purpose of supporting its principles and assist-
ing in the election of the best men for office. His life

he has been thoroughly reliable and straightforward

and his

influence

is at all times in

measures and movements

general

calculated to

favor of those

promote

welfare.

has been one of continuous activity

in which has been

accorded

due recognition of labor and today he is num-

THE DE

SOTO

NATIONAL

BANK.

bered among the

substantial

citizens

of northern

Florida.

His interests

are thoroughly identified with

It has been said that banking

institutions are

those of the

state and at all times he is ready to

heart of the commercial body, indicating the health-

his aid

and cooperation to any movement

calculated

fulness

of trade.

One of the substantial moneyed in-

benefit this

section

of the

country

or advance

stitutions of

Arcadia

and that section of Florida

wonderful development.

the De

Soto National Bank,

which was organized on

the 6th of June,

1907, by

W. G.

and B. F.

Welles,

brothers, the former having

been president since its

organization,

while the latter continues

as cashier,

ALEXANDER

Among

the earlier residents

bered Alexander
ing figure in the

McDOUGALL.

of Tallahassee

McDougall, who has

business

life of the

and who is now serving as postmaster.
in Greenock, Scotland, November 6,

num-
lead-

city since 1876
He was born
1849, and is a

with R.
dents.
dollars,

E. Whidden

The bank

now has

and C. G. Davis as vice presi-

was capitalized

a surplus of

lars and average deposits of
five thousand dollars. The
a brick and stone building

for fifty thousand

seventeen thousand

one hundred and seventy-
bank owns its own home,

sixty-five

feet and three stories in. height.

one hundred

The ground floor

son of Alexander and Mary (McDonald) McDoug
both of whom have passed away. They had a la
family of children, of whom the subject of this
view is the only one now surviving.
Alexander McDoueall acquired his education

is occupied by the bank and stores and the upper floors

constitute the

De Soto.

bank is thoroughly equipped in the most modern man-
ner with fine bank furniture and fixtures, has a strong

fire-proof

deposit boxes.

schools of his

native county

brothers, the real promoters and managers of

the in-

was sixteen years became connected

ing there, ren
America. H
VoL n--4

with mechandis-

until July, 1876, when he came to
immediately in Tallahassee and

own large

orange

groves

and also have ex-

today among the prominent and prosperous citizens of

FLORIDA

De Soto county.

W. G. Welles came to

Florida from

his fame spread through the

commercial

New England about

Welles

twenty-eight

twenty years ago,

years

ago and B.

of the

and during the entire period

country.

msurance

ser

compares

vices were soon sought by
of the north, to whom he

of their residence in this state the brothers

have been

invariably

gave

satisfaction.

During the late Civil

factors in the
Florida, their

upbuilding of

efforts

Arcadia

and southern

being particularly valuable in

war he was indispensable to the several

manders on

this station, in

the repair

naval

com-

of their

connection

with the development of De

county.

vessels, and stood

high in their

confidence.

drooping flags at half-mast from each cupola and place
of business in our city, and the shipping in our har-

GEORGE

L. BARTLUM.

and the shichpping in
action in which he

bor, testify the appreciation i
by our citizens. His remains

were attended

was held
to the

grave

by his Masonic brethren and

a large

concourse

Among

the various

largely in the

business interests

commercial

activity

of Key West is

the sponge industry, and in connection

which

feature

Key West is
therewith the

of citizens.

He leaves

and a good name

a large family to bemoan his
as their chief inheritance."

The wife of John Bartlum bore the maiden name

of George

L. Bartlum is well known.

In fact

of Sarah Lowe.

They were

married in the Bahamas

is one of the leading

section

sponge

merchants of this

of the state and in the conduct of his

business

before r
survived

emovmg

to Key

her husband,

West.

Mrs. Bartlum long

passing away February 7,

employs the most modern and progressive methods of

when ninety years

securmg

and handling the

them for the market.

of May, dl
this city.
cestry, the
settling in

Born i

sponges
in Key

and preparing

West

on the ist

he has been continuously a resident

He is descended

from Scotch-Irish an-

representative of the name in America

South

Carolina.

From Charleston, that

George
counted
West, a p

L. Bartlum has

one of the

position

intelligently directed

in the
tended

schools
Moore's

of his

foremost

for many years

business

men of

to which he has attained through his

efforts.
native

Business College of

He began

his education

and afterward

Atlanta,

Georgia,

state, his paternal g
hama islands and in

West

grandfather remover

parents

d to the Ba-
came to Key

His father, John Bartlum, was a native of

from which he was graduated in

of a century he

of a century and
industry and

has been connected

.. For a
with the

quarter
sponge

has gradually worked his way upward

the Bahamas, born

he became
in 1871, a

a reside

It the

on Green
it of Key

Turtle
West.

age of fifty-seven y

and in

He passed away
ears, and at the

until he i
sentatives

is today one

of its

in southern Florida.

lost prominent repre-
He has thoroughly

acquainted himself with every phase of the

business

time of his death a local publication wrote of him

as follows:

"John Bartlum was a native of

and through
ward, honors

progressive methods
orable dealings has built

and straightfor-
an industry of

Bahamas and
scarcely more

read and v
knowledge
mechanism.
prenticeshipl
forty years
the lot of f

and a mechanic

rare genius.

school learning than enabled him to

write, he was nevertheless always seeking

from books
Without

which
having

as a shipbuilder, he

treated on subjects of

served a da
commenced

a day's

the construction of a small vessel on

large, gratifying and profitable proportions.

a sponge

in addition

several

years

m sponges.
maintained

sponge

operator

fleet consisting

of twenty

to maintaining this f
been a large buyer

fleet he

He now

vessels

has for

of and dealer

In fact he has for several

the leading
actor at Key

position
West.

years

as the largest
There is no fea-

the lot of ground on Whitehead street, adjacent to the
one on which stands now the two-story building of

Captain

Benjamin Baker, then

a wilderness.

ture of the business with which he is unacquainted
and his industry has largely set the standard for
activity in this field. In addition to his connection

at that time the writer made his

learned

to appreciate

his natural,

in that particular line of mechanism.
building small vessels of the most be

designed
ing qual
Messrs.

& Curry,
after turn

acquaintance
native-born t;

Successively

with the

sponge

business

a large mercantile enterprise
quarter of a century, his sto

sponge neet
is a man of
successful c

he has owned and conducted

in Key

stock consisting

purpose,

carrying

West

r mainly of
goods. He
forward to

own

a large business firm on
ine out some of the most

business

schooners that ever sailed on the water, they
I to him the construction of the clipper ship,

an extensive
started on his

concern

energy.

and mission business.

name

__

*- ^ f

built up

FLORIDA

sentat
forwa

ive of the sponge industry and

.rd

progression

from that time

Charles B.

has been continuous, his

Rogers

in the Pittsboro

had the b
> Scientific

benefit of a course

Academy,

and when

even-paced e
relations.
On the 6th

united i
of Key
family

energy

carrying

of September,

n marriage to
West and a :
of this city.

into important

Mr. Bartlum was

SMiss Mary

member

also a native

of the well known Lowe

Mr. Bartlum

votes with the

seventeen years

business

world

the employ of tl
Keys, with a n
He had early le

made

his initial step in the

by removing to Florida and entering
he Florida Railway as a clerk at Cedar

So
a

nthly salary of twenty-five

rned

the eternal truth

dollars.

that industry

wins and industry became the beacon light of

his life.

democratic

party,

and although

usually accepted sense
eral important and res]
inrg been cashier in th<

-~0
Grover
years

Cleveland's

he was

a memi

of the

a politician in the
he has held sev-

ponsible political positions,

customs

house

administrations.
ber of the school

West and for five years he served

as

under both of
For several

board
mayor

of Key
of the

From
vanced

that period to the

utilizing

present he has

his time and

steadily

opportunities to

best advantage until as a wholesale merchant of Jack-
sonville he ranks among the most prominent business

men of Florida.
when in 1872 he

was

established a

mercantile business at Cedar

twenty years of age
retail and wholesale
vs. Success attended

was also a member

of the Chamber of

him in that

connection owing to his close application.

Commerce
in its vario

nicipality.
rave to the

for a number of
>us movements f

As chief

years
or the

executive

and has
benefit

officer

cooperated
of the mu-

of Key

West

businesslike

capable management and unfaltering energy.

he sought a still broader field of
the mammoth wholesale grocery
ville which is now conducted un

In I886

established

business in Jackson-
der the name of the

ministration character
and improvements.
yet he did not pract
blocking progress.

*rized

by many

needed

He avoided useless
ice retrenchment to
His reelection was

reforms

expenditure,
the point of
evidence of

the confidence and trust reposed

Consolidated (
president. Th
that maximum

;rocery

Company. of

e business is carefully systematized

results are secured

Mr. Rogers was formerly

at minimum effort,

access in commercial lines.
president of the Florida

ficial record,

like his business

career,

is unassailable.

Naval
others

Stores & Commission Company, which

establish

he has closely
interests, and

CHARLES

Hon. Charles

tion in c(
president
wholesale

ommerc

B. Rogers
ial circles

B. ROGERS.

are such
scrutiny.

occupies an enviable
in Jacksonville, bein

Grocery

dealers

in groceries.

Company,

His private interests,

however, have not been allowed to exclude

participation in
in the welfare

represented
indicating hi

ture most strongly

his district

affairs,

in the senate,

his active
concerned
re. he has

his record there

interests

as factors

in good government and

general improvement.

A native o
in Pittsboro,

Carolina, i
er 4, 1852.

Ir. Rogers was born
His parents were
Roaers. The father

was a planter of North Carolina, who at the outbreak
of the Civil war espoused the cause of his loved south-
land, joining the Confederate army. He was captured
in front of Petersburg in 1864 and sent to Point

Prison,

where he died

before

hostilities

ed in 1899. Since starting in busi
applied himself to the control of

the methods

as will bear the closest

Ist of June, 1875,

riage of Charles
man, a native
Bronson, Florid

B. Rogers and

of South
a. Their

ness
his

he has employed
investigation and

as celebrated
Miss Mary

Carolina,

mar-

A. Coach-

then residing

family -numbers

and four daughters, as follows:

Mrs. Mary F. Mit
H.: Mrs. Caroline

Frank;
It has

Pensacola

Rogers

Miss Joanna E.;
been said of Mr.

of strength and

standing
all classes

influence

Bower,
Alonzo
Rogers

Charles
i, Florida

sons

B., Jr.;
; Edgar

of New York city;
C.; and Winifred.

is a man

in his community, of

in the business world and popular among
*
of people. His success in life has been

due to energy, close

nomenal

perseveranc

and good judgment."

however, t
favorably
movements

application to business and phe-
e joined to rare native ability

It is not only

in business

Rogers has become widely and
for he has cooperated in many

result

state. He is a member of

ed beneficially to city and
the Jacksonville Board of

His wife, who was also a

Carolina, was a daughter

served

as an officer

and now makes

native

of Charles Li
War of 1812.

her home

Trade and has been a recognized leader in

circles,

serving for

council and for

with her son in

democratic

four years as a member of

several years as

of election commissioners.

a member of the
In 1898 he was

chosen to represent his

district

in the state senate,

,

e

FLORIDA

where

careful consideration to

all questions

which came up for settlement, and was connected

with much important

social lines
Country and

constructive legislation.

his connections are with

Church

Protective Order

is indicated
church. A

Clubs

of Elks,

and with the

while

his membership

A life of intense and

church.
fourteen

He is also prominent in public life and for

years

board of public

e Seminole,
Benevolent

his religious faith
in the Episcopal
ell directed activity

and high purpose has brought him to the
tion which he occupies in the regard
townsmen.

enviable posi-
of his fellow

position

straight for

istration,

istration
sighted
of the

has been a member

instruction.

mayor

ward, progressive
distinguished by

of Quincy,

of the county

one time he held the

giving

to the city

and businesslike
constructive ai

work in the public interests.

state bar association.

of well directed

suiting

cess, and

in the

activity

attainment

wherever

admin-
Id far-

He is a member

His life has

and intelligent

a fair

he is known

been
effort,

measure

honored by

reason

of his

genuine

worth.

EDWARD

C. LOVE.

DAN HARDIE.

Edward C.
public-spirited c
prominence and

C. Love,
ed citizens

one of the
of Quincy,

progressive

where

success in the general

he has v
practice

An analysis

factors

of the elements of success

which make for

progress

of the

along any line shows

United

ern district
born March
and Mary D.

state.

States

district attorney for the north-

of Florida, is a native son of

the city,
C.

20, 1872. His parents were Edward

G. (Smith) Love, both natives

The father was

lawyer here
distinction a

vention
vention.

of this

for many years a prominent

a leader in politics,

as chairman of

serving

the congressional

and a member of the state constitutional con-

He died

his wife since June,

five children:

in October,
1884. To

Edward C.,

1891, having

To their union

g survived
were born

of this review; James

who is engaged in the practice of medicine in Jack-
sonville; William G., an attorney of Columbus,

Georgia ;

Herbert A.,

a banker

of Quincy,

Florida ;

and a child who died in infancy.

Edward C. Love acquired

his early

education

the common schools of Quincy and later attended

the University

of Florida,

from which he was grad-

that one of the greatest of the forces by

attain prosperity is

enthusiasm.

is that constructive imagination

constructive

which developed be
nity advancement. 1
which Dan Hardie

Dade

work and

which

And equally
which makes

furnishes

the initial

becomes a great factor in commu-
The conspicuously successful work

has accomplished

county is explainable

man of enthusiasm
which he added thos
discrimination. H

in Miami

as sheriff

in this way, for he is a

and imagination-qualities

those of aggressiveness,

foresight and

He is known among his many

as Dan and he has made

as a synonym
standards of
beneficial

in Cincinnat
of Dan and

for uncompromising

of political morality

work in

i, Ohio, O
Mary Jane

side in East Liverpool,

the public
,, October
Jane (Ryan
ool. Ohio.

friends

the name honored

integrity,

and powerful

service.
18, 1872,

was born

and is a son

Hardie, who now re-

The father is

a native

uated

with the degree

of A. B.

He received

of Scotland

and the mother of Illinois.

degree in law from Washington

& Lee University in

the same year took up the

his profession
among the stro
He has i ad

in Quincy, where

practice of

is now numbered

and able lawyers of the community.

made an excellent professional record

When
removed

from Cincinnati

where he remained

to St. Loud

until he was thirteen

At that time, fired by a desire to
to make his own way in life, he ra

t his parents
is, Missouri,
years of age.
and

see the world

has secured

Love was appointed

patronage. In June, 1913, Mr.
by the president of the United

going

to New Mexico, whence after six months

southward

into old Mexico

as a cowboy

States,

Woodrow

for the northern district

Wilson, as United States attorney

of Florida

and immediately

and miner. In 1893 he started
ultimately to sail for Africa, b

eastward,

intending
Fort

Africa, but on reaching

the administration of the office.
Love's wife was in her maidenhood

a native

of Florida, and she and her

Pierce,

Florida, became so

impressed with

the climate

and advantages of the state that he abandoned the
idea and determined to make a permanent home here.

husband are well known in social circles

of Quincy.

For two years he lived

in Fort Pierce and in

Fraternally Mr. Love is connected with

the Masoniic

the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and

the Woodmen of the World,

are in accord with the

and his religious

doctrines of the

views

Presbyterian

Beach,

managing

acting

leisure hours

very young

a fish house,

learning

stenography
his

as a beach comber for six months,
being spent hunting and fishing.
and full of the spirit of adventure.

law, and

I P 4

of the s

left Fort Pierce and came to-tMiami, settling on the
present town site one year before the railroad was

This city

he spent nine months in

the construction of

since been his home, al-

the Bahama

islands

the Colonial

in Miami, 1

he and his
for their t
strong and

n

Iardie has one of the most beautiful homes
located on .the south side of the city, and
wife have made it a center of hospitality
nany friends. He is a fine type of the

I able business

man of the present time,

was at that time employed

Donald, contractors in charge

McGuire

& Mc-

of the construction

who, unspoiled by success, works uninterruptedly
the advancement of community interests. His

hotels on the

Henry
worked
dollar V

Florida east coast controlled by

M. Flagler. However, prior to that time he
on the streets of Miami at a salary of one

to make

the first im-

provements in the new community.

break of the

Spanish-American war he joined a Texas

regiment and was made

service until late

at Galveston,

in 1898,

Texas, with

corporal,
when he

honorable

remaining

portant
fare of

sive project
founding o
material an

activities

in promoting the growth

and wel-

Miami are far too numerous to mention

ever been inaugurated

f the city in
d substantial

which

he has

t no progres-
lere since the
not rendered

in the

was mustered out

discharge.

returned immediately

to Miami

and became a painter

JOSEPH

PEARSON

GREAVES.

and decorator,
several years.
elected sheriff

following that line of

occupation

At the age of twenty-eight h
of Dade county and reelected in

entering at that time upon his second term

years.

As sheriff he has made

for untiring work

in the best

o0

was

1912,
f four

a commendable record

interests

One of the best known

capable,
Florida is
six years
Miami.

as well -as

one of the

most

efficient and successful hotel managers

Joseph Pc
has been
Practically

earson

Greaves, who for

manager of the ]
all of his active

the past
Palm in

life has been

being known as a man untiring and

his work of reform.

No sooner did

indefatigable in
he take charge

spent in the hotel

business

experience, knowledge and

results

of his

ability are seen in the

of the sheriff's

office than he set about to abolish the

management

of the great enterprise,

the destinies

notorious
resort for

North

Miami,

then a

gamblers, thugs and

of vice and

which

criminals in the

he so ably controls

Mr. Greaves

and directs.

was born in

Brooklyn,

New York,

Inside a few months he

and resorts and

had closed

effectually wiped out North

all saloons

Miami.

February
Greaves,

21, i86o,

and is a son of Rev.

an Episcopal clergyman.

Frederick

The father

is an

For this one work alone he deserves

position
history,
tinction,
in which

among

reformers

a place

but it is by no means his
for there is hardly a lini
he has not done splendid

a conspicuous
e in the city's

only claim to dis-

Englishman by birth and education and
the United States in his early manhood.

New York

service

work.

Kansa
He w

He served

for some

he came

remaining in

time and then removing to Ot-

Is. where he turned

as,

his attention

to ranch-

however, unsuccessful at that work,

as chief of the Miami

fire department and as such

having arrived in Kansas just in time to encounter

established

it upon an entirely new basis, built the

worst

misfortunes which beset the pioneers

fine new central

engine house and

his power to promote the efficiency

did everything in
of the service. He

state.

sands of

Together

other settlers

with those

his crops were entirely

is at present connected with the department as as-

stroyed by grasshoppers,

chintz bugs,

prairie

sistant chief. A
Dan Hardie ZI
famous all over

bout five years ago

3Uaves,
Florida

a lightning
and said ti

he organized the

* company,
one of the

and droughts and he was obliged

to abandon ranch-

returning to his ministerial work in

is now pastor

of St. Stephen's

New York.

Episcopal

best boy organizations

in the United States.

in New York city and

in his seventy-seventh year

Hardie claims more boy friends than any other man

in Dade county.

He is in addition president of the

United Investment Company, of the Ocean

Amusement Company,
Ice & Cold Storage Cc

vice president

nmpany

Beach

of the Miami

and one of the origin-

still an active
and two of

ters.

England

e

and vigorous man.

Five of his uncles

his brothers were also Episcopal

e represents
and his son,

named in honor of 1

minis-

one of the oldest families

the subject
his paternal

of this review, was
great-grandfather,

ators of the Ocean Beach Realty Company, of which

Sir Richard

Pearson,

who commanded

a director.

He is besides

a partner

contractors.

3Ist of July, 19o4, in Jacksonville,
ie married Miss Anna Kelly. and tl

gunboat

Serapis

Paul Jones
Greaves ant

in the famous

nl

in the Revolutionary

d the Pearson

naval battle
war.

Ie against
Both the

families belonged to

and possessed

FLORIDA

"The Eagle
the subject

Does not Catch Flies."

of this review was

Miss Celia Amanda

was born in New

Storm,

The mother of

in her maidenhood

of Holland

descent.

York city and was a representative of

ests in accordance
hotel operation.
Mr. Greaves is

Hotel

Association.

with the

most modern methods of

a member of the New York State
He belongs to the Miami and the

one of the oldest Dutch

York families.

St. Augustine

Yacht

Clubs and

is well known

died August

2, 1891, in the fifty-fourth

of her

social

circles

of both

cities.

Josepi
parents

P. Greaves

moved

was eight years

to Kansas and he

when his

remained in that

state four years,

returning with his father and mother

WILLIAM

ALLAN

McRAE.

to New York

at the end of that time.

He acquired

an excellent public-school education and,

had the

advantage in his

youth of his

moreover,

father's

learning and of the opportunities provided by

and well selected

further

advantage

library.

He had,

of constant

cultured and educated mother.

ness career as a clerk in

moreover, the

association
He began

a broker's

William Allan McRae, who

and distinction

and distinctionrda
state of Florida,

reason

with a efforts.

his busi-

office on Wall

county,
Rebecca

of his
He ii

as commissioner

is serving with ability
of agriculture of the

is a man to whom success has come by
own indefatigable and well directed

s a native

of Florida, born in Wakulla

July 22, 1870, and is a son of William and
(Allan) McRae, the former a native of North

street

but, being

country, he became

York house,

desirous

a traveling

remaining

years, or until the
became bookkeeper

& Land
Manhatta

Company

Company
n Beach

gained his first
which he has s

nence.
of the

After

company,

in this

firm suspended

see something of the
salesman for a New

capacity f
d business.

or several-
He then

for the Manhattan Beach Hotel
of Long Island, controlling the

and the Oriental Hotels, and

experience in a

line of business

since won such distinction and promi-

two years he was made general

auditor

but this position furnished him with

employment only during the summer months when

Carolina and the latter of

South Carolina.

engaged in farming all during his life and

nent also in public affairs, serving

in the state legislature. H
vived by his wife one year.

four children:

Sarah

from fI

He died in

The father
was promi-
871 to 1873
nd was sur-

To their union were born

Rebecca, the wife of J.

Kelly, of Marianna, Florida; Christian Ellen, who
married Neil J. McLeod, and now resides at Chipley,
Florida; William Allan, of this review; and Leroy D.,
of Chipley, Florida.

William

he became

A. McRae
connected

was sixteen

years of

with sawmilling, an occupation

the northern resort hotels

were open.

In order to

which he followed for two

years,

during four months

winter employment also, without resigning
ion with the Manhattan Beach Hotel & Land

his position with the Manhattan Beach Hotel
Company, he applied for a position with t
de Leon Hotel of St. Au ine as assistant

and from the time he
the present he has bet

who controls

south.

Augusti
secured

with the
assistant

this place,

been associated

a great chain

Although he still

Ponce
cashier

in 1892, to

with Mr. Flagler,

of hotels throughout the

retains

tion with the Manhattan Beach Hotel

pany and although he
of the Oriental Hotels,

during the
Flagler inte
tion of as!
three yearn
Hotel in S
years and

winter

interests,
assistant

a summer connec-
& Land Com-

has been since x898

manager

has given all of his time

.r months to the promotion of the
winning advancement from the posi-

cashier

he was made

to that of
e manager

cashier.
of the

St. Augustine, where he remained

for the

past six

After
Alcazar
thirteen

years has been manager

of which time he also attended school.

eighteen he secured
in the following year
dollars out of the 0

earned.
Escambia
saved the
ward tool

He then

a position

a positi
saved

When

he was

as a farm laborer and

one hundred and nineteen

ne hundred and thirty which he

became

bridge watchman on the

Bay bridge and while he held that position

greater

portion of his

advantage

earnings.

of such summer school

He after-
ol courses

as he was able to attend and prepared himself to enter
the State Normal School at De Funiak Springs, in
which he was a student for three years, teaching dur-
ing the summer months to earn money to pay his

tuition.
study t

After completing the

he again

after one

prescribed course of

again turned his attention to sawmilling but
year began teaching, an occupation in which

he engaged for seven years,

ers in educational

circles

becoming one

of the

state.

of the lead-
1 November,

of the Royal Palm in Miami, this

itself an evidence
Palm is one of t
Mr. Greaves has d

of his

the finest

efficiency,

resort

position being in
', for the Royal

hotels

in the south.

I900, h(
Jackson
January

was elected superintendent of schools of

county,

assuming the duties of the

5, Irgo, and holding it for

has done much to make it so, for, under-

four years,

has worked

along p
, of the

progressive lines

t, directing

its inter- missioner of

Governor

he was

procure

when

coma-

years

n"'

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FLORIDA

to the position, which he has

and creditable

way.

ment Mr. McRae

the scope and

In taking

since filled in an efficient

charge

of the depart-

was actuated by an ambition to en-

usefulness

of its

activities

and is

in much that has affected the public life and welfare
and is one of the county's most honored and respected

citizens
mayor

In I881 he was elected

on the democratic ticket, having

to. the office of

always

trying to bring together all the forces in the state
bearing on agriculture and also endeavors to maintain
a well organized and well directed immigration bureau.

an advocate of
ternal relations

retired on

the principles of the party.
are with the Masons. He

a farm

having

given

His fra-
now lives

active law prac-

was the advocate of

the immigration bill intro-

tice. His wife, who was

born in Marion

county

duced in the
lion acres of

session

of 1913.

With thirty-seven mil-

land, most of which can be brought to a

state of cultivation, Florida

offers splendid

induce-

a daughter of Captain J. T. McGahagin,

native of Scotland
of Florida during t

and a captain
he Civil war.

of the local guards

Their family

num-

ments

to the settler, and it is Mr. McRae's ambition to

bring about this development.

On the 5th of

Miss Mary
they are the

Virgin

parents

August, It
iia Parker,

Mr. McRae married

a native of

Georgia, and

of three children: William Allan,

bered four children:
living in Jacksonville;

An uncle of Edwin

Leitner,

served

J. M. Martin.

S

Barnard, of

Edwin
pencer

Ocala;

; and George, ;
of this review,

Grover,
it home.
Wilbur

through the Civil war under Colonel
He took part in the battle of Rich-

and Roy and Ralph, twins.

Mr. McRae

is a

mond, Kentucky, and during hostilities

went to

devout member of the Methodist church and an active

worker

in religious circles,

tendent of the
eternally with the

;unday sc
Masonic

cho

being at present superin-
ol. He is connected fra-

order, the Elks, the Knights

of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World, and his

political allegiance

is given

to the democratic party.

spring

with canteens for

again at the

spring

the front and bore
which he was greatly

Edwin
schools c

Spencer
)f Ocala

house,

water. He saw the flag
jerked it up, brought it to

it throughout the battle,

commended

acquired his e
and afterward

for his bravery.
,rly education in the
won the degrees of

Aside

from the public offices before mentioned

a member of the city council of Sneads

he was

for three years

Bachelor of
University i

Arts and Bachelor of Law

n 1911, having

been connect

at Stetson
d with his

and of Marianna for four years, and his

service

work

in the

has been at all times honorable in

father in law practice until the

has comprehensive and

latter's retirement.

accurate

knowledge of the

purposes

and beneficial in

its results.

law and

is developing the habits of the painstaking,

careful practitioner who is paving the
by the thoroughness with which he

way to success

prepares

cases.

HON. EDWIN SPENCER.

His political allegiance

to the democratic party and h4

nized leader

Hon. Edwin

practicing a
& Spencer,
member of
elected in ig

,s ju

Spencer,

attorney at law in

inior partner in the firm of

Ocala,
Spencer

has the distinction of being the youngest
the state legislature, to which he was
12. From early youth he has been a close

and discriminating student of political

issues and
victions.

he is fearless in defeat
It was a recognition

questions

ise of his honest con-
of his ability on the

ture in

in its ranks,

being

where he has tl

youngest representative in the h
pro tem of the house of repre
ing the youngest man, except

that position. His fraternal
Knights of Pythias and the I

In 1911 Mr.
Miss Katherine

has always been given
e has become a recog-
: elected to the legisla-
le honor of being the
louse. He was speaker
sentatives of 1913, be-
ing one,-to have held

relations

are with the

4oose.

Spencer was united in marriage to
Chapman, of Jacksonville, Florida,

part of his fellow

for his

present

most creditable

townsmen

office,
record.

that led to his

in which he

was boi

selection

is now making a
rn in Ocala, Feb-

and they have one
tive of the third 2

family is

promine

son, Edwin, who

generation
it socially

is a representa-

to bear the name.

and Mr.

Spencer's

ruary 2, I890, and is
J. (McGahagin) Spe
Dorsetshire, England,
the United States whe

a son of Edwin and Margaret

ncer.

The father, a

was born in

tinction

as a lawyer and lawmaker

well merited.

native

came to

twenty-one years of

graduated from the University of Michigan in

ROBERT DALE DAFFIN.

with the LL. B.

degree

and for

engaged in the
which he came

practice
to Ocala,

of law in New

Florida, in

Here he

The various

business interests

the growth and upbuilding of

which contribute to

Marianna are

not the

since remained and throughout the intervening

result of the labor

of one or

even a few individuals

period of

forty years

has maintained a

foremost posi-

but of the combined efforts

of many,

tion at the Marion county bar.

He has been a leader are certain

men who are acknowledged leaders

in the

years

I.

el

FLORIDA

world, n
plans, whv
pletion.
president
Iry-goods
profitably

in the business world. He
bama, September 16, 1853
Mary Jane (Ely) Daffin,
Maryland and the latter
father was for many years
an occupation which he fi
1856. The mother has atl
union were born eight chilh

nah, Georgia
of Lampasas,
widow of WV
Marianna; M
Robert Dale,
L., of Maria
At the age
his home witl
for two yeai
the operation
afterward sp<

turned

; Fa

nny,

of energy, capable of forming
they carry forward to success-
this class belongs Robert Dale
the company which owns the
: in the town, and his life record
lowed by all who seek progress

was born at Eufaula, Ala-
, a son of William R. and
the former a native of
of North Carolina. The
in the mercantile business,
allowed until his death, in
so passed away. To their
iren: Philip P., of Savan-
wife of J. W. Covington,

, Texas; Horace E.; Lottie, who is the
illiam R. Hatsfield and who resides in
oily, deceased; William R., of Alabama;
the subject of this review; and Ernest
nna.
of fifteen Robert D. Daffin went to make

h hi
rs,
of
ent

s uncle on
learning
a model
one year

his attention

to m

1 a farm and remained there
everything connected with
agricultural property. He
as a farm laborer and then
mercantile pursuits, clerking

in a store for seven years. At the end of that
he became interested with others in a drug bu
in Marianna and continued in it for two years,
which he purchased his partner's interests an
since conducted the concern as a department
being today president of the operating company.
house, of which he is now the head, is one
leading mercantile concerns of the city, its a
cash sales amounting to about one hundred tho

t time
siness
after
d has
store,
The
)f the
Annual
uisand

dollars and the methods employed commending it
always to the confidence and support of the public.
Mr. Daffin owns his own business building and a
great deal of other valuable real estate and is one
of the substantial and leading business men of
Marianna.
Mr. Daffin married Miss Carrie Belle Alderman
and they have become the parents of six children:
Sidney A., who is business manager of his father's
concern; Robert D., Jr., who has been for six years
a missionary in south Brazil; Bessie, the wife of J.
N. Dillon. of Marianna; Holden, a minister of the
Presbyterian church in Jackson Springs, North
Carolina; Frank C., who is in business with his
father; and Eleanore, who lives at home.
Mr. Daffin is a member of the Presbyterian church,
in which he is serving as an elder, and he guides his
worthy and honorable life by the high standards in
which he believes. -Fraternally he is connected with
the Masonic order. He has been a member of the

business
original
ful cornm
Daffin,
largest d
may be

1888, and is a
(Hoag) Felkel,
Florida, and the

fath
cam'
first
first
Fun

er was rear
e prominent
principal o
president
iak Springs.

the State Scho
Augustine and I
death, which oc
Methodist, and 1
democratic part'
her death havir
They had two
review: H. Russ

son of Henry Noel and Sofronia
the former a native of Leon county,
latter of Bainbridge, Georgia. The
*d in his native section and there be-
in educational circles, serving as the
f the Leon high school and as the
of the State Normal School at De
He afterward became principal of
ol for the Deaf and Blind at St.
held this position at the time of his
curred in 1905. He was a devout
his political support was given to the
y. His wife has also passed away,

occurred

children
sell, who

at Tallahassee

in I906.

besides the subject
is twenty-seven years

and a clerk in the Leon Hotel at Tallahassee; and
Lillian Effie, who married James Gordon Pearce, of
Jacksonville.
Herbert A. Felkel was educated in the public
schools of Leon county and after graduating from
the high school entered the Florida State College at
Tallahassee. From there he went to the University
of Chattanooga and later attended the University of
Florida, at Gainesville, where he became prominent in
many phases of community life. It was heie he first
became connected with the newspaper business, in
which he has since attained success, 'for he- founded
and named the Florida Pennant, the first student
publication ever issued in the university. -This paper

city council and although not an office seeker is
active in citizenship, especially in the support of all
projects that are calculated to promote general
progress and improvement. Starting out in life at
the age of fifteen, he has steadily worked his way up-
ward in the world, winning not only prosperity and
prominence, but something far greater and higher-
the respect of those with whom his years of active
life have brought him into contact.

HERBERT AUBREY FELKEL.

Herbert Aubrey Felkel, whose identification with
journalism began in his university days and has
continued to the present time, is one of the most
powerful and aggressive young newspaper men in
Pensacola, where he is editor of the News. His ex-
perience has proven valuable to him and has brought
him to a position of prominence in his chosen field of
work. He is today the youngest editor of a daily paper
in Florida and probably in the entire south, as well as
the youngest member of the Associated Press. He
was born in De Funiak Springs, Florida, June 23,

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FLORIDA

is still in existence as a monthly magazine. Mr.
Felkel became its first editor and, aided by the power
of his paper and his unusual ability in its management,
became a force in the university, influencing to a
great degree its thought and opinion. He was at that
time what he has been ever since, an independent
journalist, and this in the end deprived him of his
degree, for some of his writings met with the dis-
favor of the faculty and the editor was expelled by
Andrew Sledd on the day his class was graduated.
After leaving school Mr. Felkel continued his
journalistic work and has now been in the newspaper
business six years, during the last four of which he
has been connected with the Pensacola News. For
three years he has been its editor, with the distinction
of being the youngest editor of a daily in Florida, and
by his able, aggressive and well directed efforts has
made the journal a power and a vital force in com-
munity affairs.
Fraternally Mr. Felkel is a member of the Benevo-
lent Protective Order of Elks and Alpha Tau Omega,
a Greek letter college society. He belongs to the
state militia and is active in the affairs of the Osceola
Club. His religious views are in accord with the
doctrines of the Methodist church, and politically he
gives his support to the democratic party. Al-
though but twenty-five years of age, he is already
one of the influential men of Pensacola, a man of
excellent special training, broad views and modern
ideas, and the prosperity he has already won is a
pleasant augury of his future accomplishments.

CHARLES HOWELL WARD.

Miami is fortunate in numbering among those
active in municipal service a man of such construc-
tive intelligence, well founded and broad views and
such aggressive activity as Charles Howell Ward, now
serving as secretary of the Board of Trade. His
ideas are modern and based on comprehensive ex-
perience, his standards are progressive, his integrity
unquestioned and he is besides a man of brains and
personality, qualified in an unusual way for his posi-
tion as a director of the city's business development.
He was born in Addison, Steuben county, New York,
June 30, 1858, and is a son of Frank H. and Char-
lotte (Howell) Ward, natives of the Empire state,
both of whom have passed away.
Charles H. Ward was five years of age when he
moved with his parents to Aurora, Kane county, Illi-
nois, where he was reared and educated. His busi-
ness career began at the early age of twelve, when
he entered the e~~ nl f t :.,. :-

--- "*.. .Za.lw y o. e..1 c a. 1Al gi. I,

uriungtoun &

Quincy Railroad Company as a messenger boy, re-
maining in the employ of the corporation for nine
years, rising through successive stages of progress and
advancement to a responsible position, resigning at
the age of twenty-one as trainmaster's clerk. After
attaining his majority Mr. Ward left Illinois and went
to Great Bend, Kansas, where he became connected
with the mercantile business. Three years of drought
and the failure of crops in that section, however,
practically paralyzed business conditions and obliged
Mr. Ward to discontinue his enterprise. Accord-
ingly, in 188i he left Kansas and went to Tucson,
Arizona, where he remained six years, engaging first
in mining and later in the cattle business and winning
a gratifying degree of prosperity along both lines.
In 1887 he went to Los Angeles, California, in the
boom days of that city and embarked in the real-
estate business, winning rapid success. However,
when the reaction came he went to the City of Mexico,
locating there in 1897 and remaining for fifteen
years, engaged chiefly in the manufacture of shipping
tags and paper boxes. While a resident of the city
he visited every state and territory in the republic,
studying business standards and conditions and after-
ward familiarizing himself with the life of the
different sections. He made some influential friends
during this time and belonged to the same Masonic
lodge of which Francisco I. Madero, late president of
the republic, was a member. Foreseeing the revolution
which deposed President Diaz, Mr. Ward returned
to the United States and came at once to Miami,
where he had previously determined to locate. He
immediately joined the Board of Trade and by rea-
son of his peculiar fitness for the position, his ex-
tensive and representative acquaintance throughout
the southwest and his practical knowledge, acquired
by wide travel, he was made secretary of the organiz-
ation before he had been in the city six months.
What he has accomplished in this position is called
miraculous even in Miami, which is a city of mir-
acles. When he assumed control the board occupied
a mere shack and even this it did not own. Today
its headquarters are in its own fine reinforced con-

create building which,
it stands, represents

lars. The membership
sixty to five hundred,
strengthened and much
accomplished through the
foresight of Mr. Ward.
of the Miami Building &
same position in the M
Roads Association, and

estate

holdings

in the

together with the lot upon
a value of twenty thousand,

has been increased from
trade relations have been
valuable development work
energy, ability and business
He is in addition secretary
Loan Association, holds the
liami Automobile & Good
has besides valuable real-

city and vicinity.

originator of the plan to build a highway

He was the
from Mont-

FLORIDA

real, Canada,

to Miami,

a plan

which

has been

Regiment and served as a private in Company

A for

adopted by the United

States

government, and he is

a short time, the

next command to which he was

always a leader in movements for the

advancement

tached

being the

Twenty-seventh

South

Carolina

of the

city's interests, his public spirit

aggressive and forceful
public service.

On December
Aletha Hubbard,

kind which

25, 1880,
a native of

Mr. Ward

of that

evidences itself

married

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Infantry, in which his father, Alexander J. Champlain,
also served. Going to Virginia with Hapgood's Bri-
gade in i864, father and son fought against Butler's
army at Port Walthall Junction, Swift Creek and

Drewrys

Bluff, under Beauregard, protecting the

They have three sons: John Hubbard,

eight; Charles H., Jr.,
Barkley, aged thirteen.

aged twenty-six
The two oldest

twenty-
Ernest

sons are now

federate capital while Lee was

at the Wilderness,

with Lee's army aided in repelling the assaults of Grant
at Second Cold Harbor and in the battle of Petersburg,

in Barcelona,
Engineering C
charge of the

companyy

in the employ of the
of New York. The

construction of a large

elect

Pearson
r are in
'ic plant

June I6-I8.

After

this they were on duty in the

trenches before Petersburg or Richmond, participating
also in the fighting on the Weldon Railroad and at

which

their company

is installing in that city.

Reams'

Station

and in other important

engagements

Mr. Ward is prominent in the

Masonic

until December, 1864, when Hapgood's Brigade

passed

the thirtieth

degree.

He is a member of

sent to Wilmington, North

Carolina,

where Butler

First Presbyterian church

who by his

exemplary

private

of Miami

and is a man

life and valuable public

accomplishments has proven his worth as

a citizen.

was defeated and where the brigade was on duty at
the front until Fort Fisher fell. Mr. Champlain's
last battle was at Bentonville, where the remnant of

his brigade did

gallant service, and

there he was

wounded severely. Being sent to the hospital at Char-
lotte, North Carolina, he was still there when General

EDWARD

ALONZO

CHAPLAIN.

J. E. Johnston surrendered his

army

at Greensboro.

His father had fallen months before in one of the

A man loyal in friendship, faithful in citizenship and

battles in front of Petersburg and in

December,

honorable in

Edward

all business relations passed

Alonzo

sonville, April

Champlain died

23, 1911.

away

when

at his home in Jack-

He left the

work and personality upon the

city, having
cantile intere

business

impress
history

been prominently connected with mer-

sts

here since I888, and holding

at the

his brother, William Ervin Champlain, had been fatally
wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg.
In his life since the war Edward A. Champlain made
a similar record of devotion to duty and his activity and
enterprise in business brought him a gratifying measure

success.

He came to Florida for the southern

time of his death the position of

vice president of the

press Company, and was-its agent

at Cedar

Keys for

Consolidated Grocery Company. In all work of prog-
ress formulated during the quarter of a century dur-

ing which he

resided here he was an

active participant

and his well spent life, which would bear

investigation

respect

and hono

scrutiny,
r of his

the closest

gained him the unqualified

fellowmen.

was also

three

years,

after which he embarked in the wholesale

grocery business there, as a partner of C. B. Rogers.
In 1886 the firm moved its business from Cedar Keys
to Jacksonville, and later formed the Consolidated
Grocery Company, Mr. Champlain becoming vice presi-
dent. He was also a director in the Florida National

well known throughout Florida as an honored

veteran

Bank.

of the Civil
Edward

war.
A. Champlain

Mr. Champlain

was born in

Charleston,

married,

February

13, 1878,

Mary H. Hodgson, a native of Florida, and they be-

South

Carolina,

December

Io, 1844, and, although he

came the parents of five children:

Guy R., who lives in

was only in

his sixteenth year when the secession of

that state and the question of the relief of Fort

agitated

Sumter

the north and south, he entered the state mil-

Jacksonville;

Edward
Gertrud<

Annie

Alonzo,

J., who married J.
who died at the are

W., who lives at home;

C. Reynolds;

and Erne

two years;
st, who re-

itary service in

the Chichester Zouaves,

serving under

Major Stevens at the Morris Island battery on the

sides in Jacksonville.
Mr. Champlain belonged to the Jacksonville Board

occasion of

of the

West.

the firing on the United States

He was a member

of this company eight

of Trade, was a member

clubs, and

of the

Seminole

and other

the Confederate Veterans Association.

or ten months and then entered the Confederate states
service as private in the Marion Artillery, with which

he served

about Charleston, participating in the battle

almost a quarter of

a century he was a prominent resi-

dent of Jacksonville, taking
leading merchants of the city.

a high place among the
Continuously connected

of Secessionville and in other engagements. A year
later he enlisted in Colonel Charles J. Colcock's Cavalry

with its development and improvement, he watched

the progress of

the city

for many years

and took an

y

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active part in all that pertained to

the substantial upbuilding

death was, therefore,

Jacksonville and
ihnnred citizen.

widely

of the co
regretted,

Duval county

the general good and

mnmumty.

for it

a representative

deprived

largely interested
Peninsular coast

in the salvage

and keys

ness consisted principally in

and his

mercantile

furnishing vessel supplies

and farm stores for those connected

The firm

engaged

with shipping.
in ship build-

ship Stephen

cost of
George

eighty thousand dollars,
L. Bowne and Euchemia

were interested in many sloops

also the

pilot boats

L, and they owned
and schooners. I

Curry insisted

on the best obtainable workmanship

on the roll of eminent

and honored

citizens

West appears the name of

important

factor

memory is here cherished not only

by reason of what he has
to the straightforward,
which he ever followed, j
ing to the rules directing
ing integrity. For more

of whi

: vessels
finest of

built under his supervision

their class.

firm of Bowne
their store and 1

& Curry
ree stock

being destroyed, at a heavy I

business

1 actions accord-
strict, unswerv-

score years

ward, however,
and Simonton s
and land, store
the business was
In i861 Mr.

they purchased

where

W

pro
'ith

and storehouses wI

were

ne severe gale in
met with heavy
of general mer-
oss. Soon after-
>perty on Front
ample wharfage
ere erected and

resumed on an enlarged
Bowne withdrew from 1

sustained
that the I

to Chicago.
complete with

same relation
e of Marshall
No history of
tout extended

to Key West and vicinity

Field & Company

sustains

account ot ill heal
personal, to Mr.

business

reference

for on every hand are seen evidences

enterprise and public,
Turtle Key, one of
II, 1821, and whei
West on the id of Ii

mostly

1837, it was
y fishermen

to his life work,

of his

was born on Green

islands,
a reside

1a

September
it of Key

Curry's

successfully

his own name, after which,

was then succeeded

:h, selling
Curry.

interests,

for more than thirty years

in 1892,

by his sons,

W. Curry,

Sons.

nam

In I9o6 the b
e of William

A recent publication in

Charles, G
son-in-law
im name of

eorge H.
Captain
William

business was incorporated

writing

y Sons' Company.
of that firm said

His initial start in the b
with the mercantile firm

business world was as a clerk

of Weever

& Baldwin.

"They

Two large

have established extensive new enterprises:

ship railways

vessels of one

business

was closed

At that time he se-
f the United States

respectively,

lighters,

vessels; a
Among

dredges

used in

Ilso docks,
others of

quartermaster and

Commander M
lowing his reti
clerkship with

accepted

spent two years with the fleet under

[cLaughlin in the Seminole war.

service he

manager

occupied

for the

their enterprises is the

in southern

a cent
n equal
r- public

power

largest ice manufacturing plant
Ln electric light plant of suffi-

to supply the city, a

magnitude
enterprise.

exemplify

md other

projects

progressiveness

Their storehouses, docks and

was afterward

and the firm of Bowne

succeeded by

a partner.
Mr. Curry

& Curry was thus organized

stories cover

is given 1
tematized

several
scores

of men.

ground, and employment
The business is all svs-

and each department has

in 1845.

continuous

stantly
forts,
w

From

and his activities

broadening lines.

reached

e progress was
out along con-

The importance of his

ice manufacturing plant is

mands ;
interests

conveniences

concentrated here.

are consumed

by those engaged

of the great
large quantities

shipping
s of ice

zv phases
e name o
In the v

of business life

in Key West with
was not associated.

mar-

Havana.

A cold storage

attached to the

plant is

Their extensive electric

adequate

motive

power

for man-

riage to Miss
John Lowe, v

the ownership

schooner

Euphemia Lowe,

joined t
)and i
which

Lavinia,

a daughter of Captain

of Bowne

& Curry

of the wrecking
a most fortunate

nation. Their
of vessels are
a continually 1

domestic purposes, aside
long lines of wharves, at

scene.

market,

present
too, is

investment.

During

his entire

was

where an almost incredible

of wrecks

was also extensively

CURRY.

His ability was an

mercantile house

energy ana
than three
ch he was

trees,

the Bahama

became

he retired

remained

a year and a
a position in

rement

the position

cantile

house owned by G. L. Bowne

Florida; a

that time forward

fe,
the

too, grew as the years went on until there were

designed

to meet local de-

in the export of

establishment

r

FLORIDA

amount of fish

is offered.

Their

great warehouses

are filled with one of the largest stocks of
chandlery, hardware and general merchandise

found

in Florida.

This firm also owns the large

bonded warehouses, in which thousands

Havana tobacco

are stored; and buildings

gifts and remembering frier
cious and generous manner.

his seventy-third

birthday

ids in their usually gra-

Mr. Curry
on that day.

fastened upon him soon afterward

of bales of

of like

portion are held in reserve for the storage of wrecked

cargoes which are
The firm is uni\

among

periodically

versally

the great business

under the present
is likely to be mai

brought

conceded a
firms of the

admirable management
intained for many yea

The former indicates how closely has

Curry been associated

opment
business

of Key
affairs.

into this port.
leading place
peninsula, and
ent its prestige
rs to come."

the name

with the upbuilding and

West and
William

indomitable enterprise and carried

devel-

the promotion of her
:urrv was a man of

forward

success-

ful completion whatever he undertook. He was never

actuated

never feared

the spirit

of vaulting ambition, yet he

to venture where

led the way, and the simple we

and ability
Mr. and
children:

carried

favoring opportunity
eight of his character

him into important relations.

Mrs. Curry

Charles,

became the

deceased,

parents of eight

of January, ir
thereby losing o0
honored citizens.

posing. ,
ory of th
Business

e

death

ne of its

called

celebrated
Ill health

and on the
him, Key

most valued, prominent

His funeral services were most im-

11 of Key

united to honor the mem-

man who had done so much for the city.

was practically suspended during

of the funeral,

West's

which was

most distinguished

from outside

the city. His

and beneficial

attended by all

the hour
of Key

citizens and many others

life was indeed

in its effects.

the material growth and

progress of

was as well a strong element in its

ment, for he set at
tion of integrity, ei
should be followed

with his

1 example
enterprise
by all.

city's greatness and

pressed in equally

for the

far-reach-

It was a factor

Key V
moral
present

lest

advance-
genera-

and unsullied honor that
His name is interwoven

prosperity

and is

indelible manner upon all of

influences which are factors for the betterment

individual arid the

community at large.

of whom mention is

made on another page of this volume; Louisa, the
wife of Dr. Joseph Yates Porter, state health officer

of Florida;

George

H., who was

born December 24,

DEXTER

MARVIN

LOWRY.

and died January

i6, 1906, leaving

a wife and

three children; Henry F., who
1854, and is now a resident of
Robert 0., deceased, mention

was born February 7,

n

Braidentown,
ed elsewhere

Florida;
in this

Dexter

Marvin Lowry, mayor of

prominent in various

phases

man to whom success has come

Tallahassee

of community life,

as a result of earnest

work; Eleanor, the widow of Captain Martin L.
Hellings; Florida E., the wife of J. Vining Harris;

and Milton

William, who since

dent and general manager of the

Company.

1907 has been presi-
William Curry Sons'

He is the only survivor among

sons and son-in-law to whom

his business upon his

retirement

Curry was born at Key West,
was educated in the north and

his early manhood

19o7,

return
of the

the three

the father turned over

in 1892. b
November

the greater

Iilton

labor,
energy.

close application
He was born i

January 23, 1876,

and is

and intelligently
n Valley Head,

a son

of George

Mary E. (Long) Lowry, both natives of
The father was for many years engaged in

there but is now

union were born nine

6, i866,
part of

was spent in New York city;

following the death

to Key

West

of his elder brother, he

and accepted the

great firm founded by his father.

presidency
During the

children:

tanooga, Tennessee; Lora, the

retired.
Forrest,

wife of

of Atlanta, Georgia; Dexter Marvin,

Charles

W., of Checotah,

of William Thompson, of

kogee, Oklahoma;
and Fred.

Nicholas,

directed
Alabama,

M. D.

that state.
merchan-
To their
of Chat-

W. C. White,

of this

Oklahoma; Sally,

Alabama;

George,

of Tennessee;

review;
the wife
of Mus-
Russell;

six years in which he has had active general manage-

ment the
has been

prestige

and good

admirably maintained,

general usefulness has continued

name of the house
and its sphere of
to broaden and ex-

Dexter

M. Lowry

his independent

when he was twenty years of age, going to ]
gee, Oklahoma, where he established himself

cotton seed

oil business.

career
Musko-
in the

After one year he went to

Milton Curry owns and occupies a palatial

in Key West and enjoys the

distinction of being

Eufaula, Oklahoma, and in
where he organized and

came to Tallahassee,

incorporated The

Florida.

one of the city's foremost residents.
On the iIth of September, 1894

Cotton Oil Company, of which

Mr. and Mrs.

He is also

vice president

Capital

William Curry celebrated
a banquet tendered their
daughters-in-law, and the

their golden wedding with
children, their sons and

grandchildren,

dispensing

He is recognized as a resourceful, able'and

business man, unwavering
standards and uvriiht an

in his integrity,

<

L
v

Id

FLORIDA

his business dealings, and success has attended his
well directed labor, making him today one of the
substantial men of the community.

welfare

of the

he has secured

resentative circulation which makes

a director

a liberal and re
him powerful

of public thought and opinion.

He has

Mr. Lowry married Miss Letitia

Rawls,

a daugh-

also a large

advertising patronage.

ter of Hon.

parents
ternally

W. A. Rawls,

of two

children,

and they have become the

Dexter

and Mary

Mr. Lowry is connected with the

Masonic

order, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, and he

is a member of

his political

the Presbyterian church.

allegiance

to the democratic

He gives

Mr. Carter is a member of the Knights of Honor

and has been secretary since the foundation

order in

i88o.

citizen and a

of the

He is a progressive and public-spirited

far-sighted, able and

business man and as such a valuable

general

growth and development of the

discriminating

factor in the

in which

ticket has been elected

four times.

He has

given

est, straightforward and

mayor
to the

of Tallahassee

he lives.

city an

progressive administration

marked by

businesslike

interests and

constructive

has made a record

which promises well for his continued

work in the
in the office
political ad-

J. HOWARD

SYLVESTER,

vancement.

A local paper says of him:

"1

of Tallahassee is one of those clean-cut,

and magnetic

personalities

attract

from home and make friends both

:he mayor
vigorous

attention away
at home and

Gadsde
its gene
interests

1n

county finds

a worthy representative

ral agricultural, tobacco-raising
in J. Howard Sylvester, Jr., one

extensive landowners

and da
of the r

in this section of the state.

abroad.

He has been mentioned for numerous offices,

owns

and operates one thousand acres of

ranging from state senator

to governor

and member

Quincy

and by his practical and modern methods of

of congress, but he

so far resisted

the allure-

work, his industry,

honesty

and success has made

ments

of office other than that of chief

executive

substantial contributions to the general

progress and

the capital city of his

state.

There

are many,

ever, who expect to have the privilege sooner or later

advancement.
I7, 1873, and

was born in

Sis a son of

J. Ho,

Gadsden county, May
ward and Annie (Mc-

of supporting him for

a higher position and those

Call) Sylvester, the

former

a native

of Florida and

who know him have

no doubt that he would fill any

the latter of Tennessee.

The father has been engaged

office in the

state with credit and

distinction.

He is in farming all during

his active career

and is

now a

of that clean, progressive ty
are accomplishing things, bot
in the state of Florida today.

pe of

young

h political

men who

and material,

prosperous and successful agriculturist. He and his
wife became the parents of eight children: Sally V., the

wife of James

D. Beasley, of Tennessee; William, a

resident of

Bainbridge,

review; Donald

Georgia; J. Howard, of this

S., deceased; Robert

of Quincy,

Florida; Palmer H., of

Gadsden county;.Mary E., who

WILLIAM

W. CARTER.

married Fred

Foster,

of Port

St. Joe; and Pauline,

deceased.

William
newspaper

W. Cart
interests

er,

prominently identified

of Daytona as publisher of the

Halifax Journal, was born in

his education

in the public schoc

where he also learned

dence here

the print

Indiana and acquired
ls of New York City,
ter's trade. His resi-

dates from 1877. Two years

tablished a job printing office in the city.
F. A. Mann founded the Halifax Journal,

publication,

which has

since that time. Mr
building and opened

immediately

later he

In i882
a weekly

had a continuous existence

. Carter took an office in the same
a job printing establishment. He

became connected with

paper,

sisting in make-up work and in the publication of
the.Journal. In 1912 he purchased the paper and

since that

time. has conducted the enterprise alone,

making it an excellent weekly publication.

locating

in its columns

and by working

earnestly

progressive

public

measures

for the advancement and

Since beginning

vester, Jr.,
packer of
everything

his active career J. Howard

has been in business as a grower

fine tobacco.
relating to th

a practical, far-sighted
met with an enviable

forward h
profitable.

uis interests,

V

a

He understands thoroughly
is line of work and, being
nd able business man, has

degree of
which are

Succeed
today

s in carrying
extensive and

He owns one thousand acres

and in addition to his

proper
fifty
Mr

union

ietor

tobacco interests

a large dairy, keeping

of land

is also .the

one hundred and

high-grade milch cows.
Sylvester has been twice married.

was with

Miss Catherine

whom he had three children:

and Mary

Sylvester married

After the death of his

Mrs. Annie

(Ball) I

by her former marriage became the
John McFarlin.

His first

R. Woodbury, by
ohn A., James H.

first wife Mr.
IMcFarlin, who

mother of a son,

FLORIDA

Mr. Sylvester

views,

is a Presbyterian in his religious

while his wife belongs to the Methodist church.

Fraternally he i
and also belongs

of Elks.
development
agriculturists

is prominent in the Masonic
to the Benevolent Protective

order
Order

Closely identified with the growth and

of this

county

and business men,

as one of its

successful

he has the confi-

dence and esteem of the entire community, and his

place in the

business world i

on integrity,

s prominent and

secure,

honor and straightforward deal-

ganization o:
now serving
institution.
Company; v:

f the Bank of Orlando in

and he

as vice president and a director of that

is secretary of the

ice president

of the Orland

of which he was one of the organizers;

of the Board of Trade.
In i894 Judge Warlow

of Chicag
Wright.

0o,

Overstreet Crate

o Sanitarium,
and president

ige Warlow married Miss Halle Wright,
a daughter of the late Abner Miles

They have three children, Helen,

Picton and Thomas Picton. Jr.

Warlow is
section of tl

Thomas Picton, Jr. Fraternally Judge
one of the most prominent men in this

he

active in

the affairs of many of

JUDGE THOMAS PICTON

the leading fraternal organizations.

WARLOW.

190Io he served

From

1o00 to

as district deputy grand master for

No name is more

political,

business

the thirteenth

justly honored in

and fraternal circle,

than that of the Hon. Thomas Picton

serving

as judge of the criminal court of

man of varied interests

and of forceful personality,

he has during the twenty-nine years he

in the

identified himself

every phase of community

a great

force in the

for himself the

share

esteem

closely

i professional,
s of Orlando
Warlow, now

record.

has resided

with practically

development and

city's expansion

of his associate

has been

while winning
;s and his full

of business, political and legal honors.

Judge Warlow was
ents, and acquired his

was born in India, of English par-

education

in Switzerland

France. After completing it he came ti
in 1884 settled in Orlando, where he

sided.

He studied law and in

the Florida bar, becoming
firm of Massey & Willcox.
partner of Louis C. Masse
Mr. Willcox. He soon b
democratic politics, begin
1007. when he was annoi

Orange c
fice with

county by
credit t

- T'"' rr "

Governor

w;

connected
In 1893 1

y,

o America and
has since re-
as admitted to
with the law

d

was grand high

1910.
I097, B
business

district
priest

of Florida, F.

& A. M., and

of the Royal Arch Masons in

He is exalted ruler of Orlando Lodge, No.

Is

presidency
Bankers A
national p

enevolent Protective

world

he was

Order

honored in

of Elks.

In the

with the

for the state of Florida of the

association,

American

an office which brought him into

prominence as an organizer

The cause of education

and at present he
as chairman of

School
years,

for Girls.
secretary

and financier.

finds in him a loyal supporter

is doing

active

and beneficial work

the school board of the Cathedral
He is, and has been for a number of

of the Cathedral Chapter.

man of cosmopolitan culture, broad and

He is

liberal views

and effective public spirit and as such is a valued addi-
tion to the community in which he makes his home.

he was made

upon the retirement of

HON. WILLIAM

A. HALLOWES, JR.

came prominent in local

ing his public career in
hinted county solicitor of

Broward, filling that

to himself and to the

satisfaction

Hon. Williaim

A. Hallowes,

Jr., states attorney

the fourth judicial circuit of Florida and

tioner at the Jacksonville bar

the younger

representatives of the

a practi-

since 1903 is

profession who has

the entire community until 1909.

his election

Orange

by the

county

In March, 1911,

democratic executive committee of

to the

court of criminal

Gilchrist.

In the

nominated and he

office of judge of the county

record was ratified

primary

now serving

by Governor

was re-
position,

in that

gained

well envy.

city w
being
natives

a reputation that many

was born September

is still his place of

which

William A. and Lydia

of Georgia

and Florida

an older lawyer might
ember II, 1881, in the

residence,
(Telfair)

his parents
Hallowes,

respectively.

father, who has been engaged.in the turpentine busi-

discharging his duties with

scientiousness and

the other

positions

the same

energy, con-

public spirit which he brought to
of public trust which he has held.

is not alone along political lines, however, that

Warlow has made

his name a synonym for

progressive and constructive work, for

most important

city owe

business

their growth and

tive and organizing

Senator Massey

ability.

he took

corporate
progress
In

many of
interests

to his initia-

connection

a leading part in the or-

ness in Florida for a number of

dent of
Willial
cation,

St. John

years, is

now a

resi-

county.

im A. Hallowes supplemented his early edu-
acquired in the common schools of Duval

county, by a course in the University
from which he was graduated in 1903.

of Georgia,
He had pur-

sued the study of law there and following his grad--
uation was admitted to practice at the bar of the

state.
where

He then opened an
he has since remained,

an office in

Jacksonville,

and has gained

a not-

personality,

FLORIDA

able and enviable position in connection with the
work of the courts here. In 19e6 he was appointed
one of the referees in bankruptcy of the United
States district court in the southern district of Florida
by Hon. James W. Locke, district judge, and was
reappointed in 1908. The same year he was elected
states attorney and so excellent was the record which
he made in that connection that he was reelected in
1912 without opposition. Certainly no higher testi-
monial of his efficiency, fidelity and capability could
be given. He carefully prepares his cases and safe-
guards the interests of the public at large, presenting
his cause in a strong, forceful, logical manner. He is
a member of both the local and state bar associations
and has the high respect of his professional brethren.
In his political views Mr. Hallowes manifests a thor-
ough understanding of principles and questions in-
volved and his position is never an equivocal one. He
is an active advocate of any cause which he espouses
and is well known in both local. and state political
circles.
Fraternally Mr. Hallowes is connected with the
Woodmen of the World and belongs to the Masonic
order, and in social circles he is also widely and favor-
ably known. He was married on the 7th of February,
1906, to Miss Sara Rhea, a daughter of W. D. Rhea
of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. They have one son,
who bears the name of his father and grandfather,
William A. Hallowes.

PHILIP

KEYES

YONGE.

A man of constructive intelligence, modern views
and aggressive action, Philip Keyes Yonge has made
steady progress since the beginning of his active
career and today as president and manager of the
Southern States Lumber Company, stands as a prom-
inent figure in the industrial and general business
development of the city. An initiative spirit guided
by sound and practical judgment has influenced his
activities and forms the basis of a success which has
been wisely used in promoting the best interests of
the community where he has been an active business
factor for the past thirty-seven years.
Mr. Yonge is a native of Jackson county, born May
27, 1850, and is of English ancestry, the family hav-
ing been founded in America about the middle of the
eighteenth century. His father, Chandler Cox Yonge,
was also a resident of Jackson county, where he was
prominent in the law and in politics, serving as secre-
tary of the constitutional convention of 1838, which
drew up the laws under which Florida was admitted

to the Union. He was also a member of the first
state legislature and was later United States district
attorney under Presidents Polk, Pierce and Buchanan.
During the Civil war he was prominent among the
supporters of the southern Confederacy, serving as
district attorney for Florida under the Confederate
government and later organizing a company of volun-
teers, known as "Yonge's Confederates." In 1863 he
was commissioned major in the quartermaster's de-
partment of the Army of the Confederacy and sta-
tioned at Tallahassee. After the close of hostilities
he made his home in Pensacola, where he became one
of the most prominent and distinguished lawyers in
the state. His wife was in her maidenhood Miss Julia
Ann Cole, of Virginia.
Philip K. Yonge attended the University of Georgia,
graduating in 1871 with the degree of B. A. and re-
ceiving in the following year his degrees of A. M.
and B. L. In 1873 he began his career in Pensacola,
serving as clerk to the British vice consul, a capacity
in which he acted until I87g. He afterward spent a
short time in the real-estate and insurance business
and was for one year city clerk of Pensacola. Leaving
this office in 1876, he accepted a position as book-
keeper with the Muscogee Lumber Company and has
since that time been connected with lumber interests
here, his energy and industry aiding him in the de-
velopment of a successful business career. After one
year he was made secretary of the concern and did
capable work in this office until 1889, when the Mus-
cogee Lumber Company was succeeded by the South-
ern States Land & Timber Company, Limited, of
which Mr. Yonge was made assistant manager. He
afterward served for one year as manager of the
company's New York office and in 1892 was appointed
superintendent of the Muscogee Mills, a position which
he held for three years, or until the company went
into the hands of receivers. Mr. Yonge, as a man
thoroughly conversant with the condition of the busi-
ness and the details of its management, was made spe-
cial agent and manager for the receivers and had full
charge of the affairs of the concern until I898, guid-
ing the destinies of the company tactfully and wisely
through a trying period in its history and finally put-
ting its affairs into shape for reorganization. In I898
the Southern States Lumber Company was organized,
taking over all of the valuable holdings of its prede-
cessor, and Mr. Yonge was elected vice president and
manager. In 1903 he was made president and man-
ager. The Southern States Lumber Company controls
large and valuable tracts of timber land in Escambia,
county, Florida, and Escambia and Baldwin counties,
Alabama, and manufactures both rough and finished
lumber, operating one of the largest lumber export-
ing concerns in this section.

FLORIDA

On December

Lucie C.
Davis, f
Mr. and

Davis, a
formerly

13, 1876,
a daughter
residents

Mrs. Yonge

children, seven of
married P. A. Buc

Mr. Yonge married Miss

of John E.
of Column

became

par

whom are living:
k; Julien Chandler;

and Sarah C.
bus, Georgia.
rents of nine

A. Louise, who
John E. Davis;

Henry Mather; Malcolm Roland; Chandler
and Marjorie Jean.

Mr. Yonge is connected with the

Independent

Mrs. March spent her girlhood

in Greene county, Ohio,

on her father's

and on August

age of twenty-one married

March.

Willia

17, 1889, at
,m Everard

was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, June

1858, and was a son of

Edwin

Everett March, a repre-

sentative of an old English family and a direct descend-

ant of the Earl of March,

English

throne.

once the

The family

rightful heir to the

coat of ar

noble lineage and the family's position in

ns shows
England

der of Odd Fellows and socially belongs to

while his political allegiance

ocratic party.

From 1877

member of the board

cambia
during

county,

until

the Osceola

is given to the dem-
:8co he served as a

of public instruction

with the

which he declined

been a member of the

of Florida

and has

the past four years.
cola city council for

and political associations

exception

to act.

board

01

Since

of control of th

of Es-
ne year

he has
e state

been chairman of that board

He was a member of the

years.

Through his

b

for

Pensa-
iusiness

Mr. Yonge has become widely

known among the men of weight and influence in
Pensacola, in whose ranks he stands, and for over a
third of a century he has been a representative of the
city's most progressive and powerful business interests.

for many generations supported

of its members.

and fruit

by the great

was

wealth

William Everard March was a farmer

grower by occupation

and immediately

his marriage moved with his wife to Center Hill,

ida, where

started

he purchased

a bearing

new trees on another tract of land.

frost of 1895, however
influenced Mr. March

further south.
to Dade county,
miles south of

destroyed

all his

in his determination

Accordingly,
SFlorida, and

the present

that time having not yet b

made a
line of

thorough

in August,
started a

grove and
The great
trees and
to remove

I895, he

came

fruit grove ten

site of Miami, the
een founded. Mr

of everything

business and was recognized

authority on tropical

relating

town at
. March

to his

as a standard

fruit cultivation,

called upon by agents of the

United

States government

for data

on this subject.

In addition to being one of the

pioneers in the growing of citrus fruits

in Dade county

he was also extensively interested in local real estate,

MRS.

MINNIE HILL

MARCH.

acquiring large and important holdings.

He died May

13, 1911, leaving

It is seldom,

indeed,

conspicuous organizing and

power

of coordinating,

and such general business

by Mrs. Minnie Hill I
of the Hotel Halcyon

a woman
executive

possesses
ability, st

planning and systematizing
efficiency as is displayed

fred Lucile,

his widow

and one daughter,

who is now completing

a Fairmount Seminary,

daughter
After

JLarch in her capable management

in Miami.

She is vice president

Augusta

Washington,

Belton, died in

her education

Another

infancy.

the death of her husband Mrs. March found

f dependent upon
and courage, rare

her own resources

min a woman,

she determined

of the

operating

company

ow

concern, and the remarkable growth which

tion has made

directed
manage
county,
Gilbert

ner in the
the institn-

is due entirely to her intelligently

efforts since she assumed control as resident

in I9i1.

Ohio,
Walker

occupation.

October

I7, 1868,

Hill, a native of

was born in Greene
and is a daughter of

Virginia and a

farmer

With his parents he moved from Vir-

to enter the business world.
associates she purchased the

Miami,
Royal I

a fine modern

hostelry, second only to the
:edlv the finest tourist hotel in

Florida outside of those controlled by the Flagler inter-

ests. Mrs. March's

partners

being non residents, she

took active charge of the enterprise, changing the name
to Hotel Halcyon, a title under which it is now con-

to Greene county when he was still a child

grew to maturity there,

becoming one of the success-

ful and prominent farmers of that section of

state.

ducted.

She has enlarged

improvements in equipment

assumming

its capacity,

made

and furnishings

many

and since

charge

He has now, however, disposed of his property in Ohio

and makes

his home in Miami, where he lives retired.

tails of management,

leaving

nothing

tindone to make

the hotel modern and luxurious in every respect.

His wife was in her maidenhood

Miss Minerva

stace McFarland, also a native of Greene county.

Hill family is

of old Virginia

Revolutionary stock and,

Halcyon, loc
d according

beautiful design,

is one of the most picturesque and attractive places in

in fact,
bership

on both sides Mrs. March is eligible

in the Daughters oa
he Colonial Dames.

American

mem-

Revolution

it adorns

and beautifies.

cost, exclusive

The original
ich it stands,

unprovements,

Wini-

9

fk:
Ai i
4'I

1'~ra

]AAv-r

I~

FLORIDA

thousand dollars and today, with the

more recent im-

and proving

himself

able, energetic

and far-sighted

provements it doubtless represents a total value of half
a million dollars. Although built along modern lines and
lavishly furnished at the outset, the hotel was not suc-

cessful

from a

financial

standpoint

in the beginning,

four expert hotelmen having made a failure of its

management.
upon a profitat

It remained for Mrs. March to put it
ble basis and to so direct its operation

in the

discharge

of his duties.

Mr. Gregory married Miss
daughter of Joseph and Nellie

and. they have become

May Theresa,

Nellie

Holvert Chatman.

Catherine

Saunders,

(Alexander) Saunders,

parents

Prescott,

of four children:

Gladys

Catherine

Mr. Gregory is a member

Methodist church, and fraternally is affiliated with the

that it is today not only a large, beautiful and attractive
hostelry but a profitable and well managed business
enterprise as well.

Mrs. March is a

member

of the

First Presbyterian

Royal A
Knights

Lrch Masons,

the Woodmen of the World, the

of Pythias and the

der of Elks.
demonstrated

Benevolent Protective

His ability and public

in his

conduct

spirit have

of the affairs

of the office

church of Miami, in which her husband was a ruling

elder, and
ways ready

she is interested in religious

to aid in the promotion

sion. She has not allowed

detract in any way fr
is an attractive and

work and al-

of church

expan-

he holds and he

is highly

only as a public official, but
right citizen.

esteemed and respected,

as an honorable and up-

her business success to

-om her charming personality and

broad-minded

proven her ability in the splendid
attended her labors.

woman,

results

who has

which

ELIJAH

BRYAN

ERWIN.

Elijah
position

Erwin,

of clerk of th

creditably and ably filling the
ie circuit court, was born in

Greenwood, Jackson county, December 22,

G. SCOTT

is a son of
Erwin the

GREGORY.

John M. F.
former of

and Georgia Carolina

whom

was born

in No

(Bryan)
rth Car-

G. Scott

G. Scoth
as sheriff

Gregory,

now serving

ably and efficiently

of Gadsden county, is a native

born in Wakulla county, March
son of Holvert C. and Elizabeth

ory, the former a
latter of Florida.

Civil war

as a serge;

tle of Natural

Bridge

native

of South

The father
ant and was
re. He

18, 1872.

of Florida,

He is

(Causseaux) Greg-

Carolina

served

and the

through the

wounded at the bat-

was prominent and im-

portant in local public affairs, at one time representing

his county in the state

assembly.

gave his attention almost exclusively

was prosperous

dying August 2,
wife until March
born six children:

vert Lee,
review;
Florida.

and successful

19, I892.
Julia and

For many years

lively to farming and
in this line of work,

was survived
To their union

Annie,

of Tallahassee, Florida;

Allien,

deceased;

G. Scott Gregory
farm and remained

at which time he

year was engaged
of that time he fo

Moseley
the cattle

e, deceased;
G. Scott, o

and Albert M., of

by his
in were
d; Hol-
of this
Quincy,

olina, o
native
came t(
where I

f Scotch-Irish descent
of Florida, of Irish

o

removing

this state

it, while the latter was

extraction.

in 1840 and located in

spent two years

to New

he returned to

as a school t

trleans. After th
Jackson county

rel t
ree

The father
Greenwood,

teacher
years

before
in that

and established

himself as a general merchant, following this line of

occupation

he joined the
as lieutenant in

After the close
legislature, sen
ing in this ti

Upon the exp
his mercantile

tent in
vived I

farming, passing a
him many years, dy
born three children

were born

until the outbreak of the

war,

Confederate army, going to the front
i Robinson's Company, Finley Brigade.
of hostilities he was elected to the state

legislature, serving
ing in this time

from 1865 to

far-reaching

eiration of

business and

his term of

1866 and accomplish-
and beneficial work.

office

also engaged
y in 1878. I

passing away 7in I57
years, dying in 1911.
children: Elijah B

of this sketch; John M. F., who

* was reared upon his father's
there until he was twenty years

came to Quincy

tobacco.

in dealing in

formed a partnership with

and together they remained nine

business,

tention to public

Quincy

Mr. Gregory

affairs.

He was

and for
At the
W. H.

years

then turning his at-
elected city marshal

and resigned this position at the end of

drowned in Lake Michigan; and

tain in the Thirtieth United
in Alaska.

At the

sixteen

States

he resumed

some ex-

His wife sur-
To their union

Bryan, the subject
was accidentally

Isaac,

who is cap-

Infantry, stationed

Elijah B. Erwin

position as shipping clerk in a warehouse in Neals
Landing but held this position for only a few months,
coming at the end of that time to Marianna, where

for two

years

he returned

he engaged in merchandising.

to Greenwood

and purchased

In 1887
an inter-

years to make the campaign for the office

He was elected in
TeL U--

and reelected in

of sher-
1912,

in a general store,

the conduct of this

dividing his attention between

concern and

a large

lumber busi-

I*

g

secured

of the

ways ready

I

when

FLORIDA

ness until 1904, when he

in Marianna. F
banking interests,

the Citizens

Bank

again

' took

his residence

[ere he has become identified

serving

for six years as cashier of

of Marianna and becoming a power

and a force in local financial

Greenwood in 1910o,

circles.

Returning

he again became connected

the mercantile business but after two years was elected

clerk of the
his official

circuit court, a position which he still fills,
life being marked by the same earnest,

capable and conscientious work, which distinguished

and made successful his business

In August,

Ackland Vereen and

children:
Roanoke,

Georgie,
Virginia ;

career.

Mr. Erwin married

they became

who is

a graduate

Miss Hattie

the parents of ten

a college

Margaret, who was educated at

Eufaula, Alabama, and who is now studying

in Mobile, Alabama; Hattie

who is

a

nursmg
attending

Ann (Manor)

Martin.

was a captain in the

family

The grandfather,

Revolutionary war.

is of English descent and

moved from Albemarle county,

Carolina.

Edmond

Martin was

South Carolina, and at one time

a large plantation in that
sive holdings in Florida
prominent and influential

number

was not a

terms in
politician

wedded

county, South
old families c

Martin,

1 the

state.
and

citizen,

early an
Virginia,
born at

owned

cestors

to South
Edgefield,

and conducted

Later he had exten-
was recognized as a

who served for

state legislature,

in the usually

accepted

Ann Manor, who was born

Carolina, and
if that state.

was so named

Marshall whose wife

grandfather.

although he
d sense. He
in Beaufort

belonged to one of the
Her son, John Marshall

in honor of

was

Chief

a sister of

Justice John
Mr. Martin's

In the family of Edmond and

school in Danville,

Virginia;

Sarah,

Marion, Lucy, Patty Irene, Elijah

M. F. and

Virginia, all of

Erwin is a member

Mr. Erwin

cratic

party,

portant connection,
of the Maccabees, t

whom liv

deceased;

Bryan, Jr., John
e at home. Mrs.

of the Methodist

Ann (Manor) Marti

adult age.

Alfred

the Confederate

court of

his political support to the demo-
raternallv has extensive and im-

being a member of

the Modern

Masonic order.

Woodmen
e last nam4

tion he has attained a position of promin

the Knights
of America
ed organiza-
ence, having

been for a number of years master of Chipola Lodge,
F. & A. M. A man of keen discrimination and sound

judgment, he confines
fairs of the public offi

tive ability and
well known anc

excellent

his attention largely to the af-

management

I prominent in

and his execu-
have made him

financial circles.

inquiries,

six years. E t.,
his life work, di
Abram, who ser
South Carolina,
age of fifty-two

in were six children
M., who became a

army and was

who reached
volunteer in

transferred

died at the advanced age

made th
the age

e practice

0

to the

of eighty-
f medicine

of eighty-two years.

in the Confederate

army from

under Colonel Carlcock, died at

years.

age of thirty-one years.
the youngest of the fam

Colonel Ma
who reached
birth until his
at the Citadel

arrived in
d a large

chase

l.uen passed away at the
Rosa Caroline Lawton was

rtin, the other member of the family,
adult age, resided at the place of his

ren
in

oval to

Charleston,

1 this

South Carolina, and

where

From

received

siderable acreage in Marion county

a con-

and here he has

COLONEL JOHN M.

Colonel

Martin

first milestone on life's journey

MARTIN.

has passed

the eighty-

and in the evening of

since made
a good plar
identified w
retired. H

his home.

has been more or less actively

pursuits

but is now living

life is receiving the respect and veneration which

ever be a
has been
honorable

remarkable

accorded to a man of his years,

characterized by
manhood. He

changes not only in the

whose

the qualities of up-
has lived to witness

district in

he makes his home but also throughout the

been an important factor in

work of general improvement and

latter part of

i86i he enlisted

federate army and

became

Artillery, which was

progress.

for service in

a captain
raised in

county.

country.
railroads

His memory compasses the period

were first

and telephone

tions.
taking
within

Since

built and in which

were given to tn
[844 he has been

a reside

He continued in command of that company until

the telegraph
as new inven-
nt of Florida,

wounded

at Richmond,

serious

up his abode in that year in Marion county,

the borders

of his residence

still makes his

Ocala.

home,

was born

Beaufort, now Hampton county, South Carolina,

i8, 1832,

and is

a son of

occupants
Martin to
kindness 1

and subsequently

Colonel

Kentucky,

struck

recovered.

t had been vacated by its
a Union man took Mr.

:ared fo
Martin

ation. For some time he was

incap

ir him-an act

has high appreci-
>acitated for duty

n

FLORIDA

but eventually returned
the interval, however, his

him nominated

him for co

a handsome majority

On the

expiration

to active

service.

friends without consulting
ngress and he was elected

over two worthy

of his

competi-

term he circulated

a printed card declining a reelection on the ground that

he was

too young a man to be

men might do the
military duty. TI
that he would hav

in congress

work and he could

here was

engage

in active

old army comrades
Episcopal church.

tin that
arduous,

His religious

faith is that of the

It is characteristic of Colonel

he should leave legislative

difficult

field service.

honors for

At no time of life

has he ever shirked his duty but has always been

faithfully discharging
upon him, ever holding

hood and

the tasks that have

to high

standards

devolved

man-

of citizenship.

every reason to suppose

been renominated without opposi-

tion had he

not declined further

legislative

honors.

He was then appointed colonel of

the Ninth Florida

F. F. BINGHAM.

Regiment and

served

for a

short time in this state,

after which he was ordered

to report

with his conm-

to General Lee.

Through

successive

stages o

ment in the business world F.

f progress and advance-
F. Bingham has worked

Cold Harbor, in the campaign

in the siege

of Petersburg and in

duty in all of the engagements

many of his neighbors, he
reconstruction days owing

but he reso
place again

Wilderness

was on active
vicinity. Like

suffered

to the ravages of war,

ilutely took up the task of bringing
into good condition and was meeting

substantial success when the

Prosperity

has again attended him

at the

lands are now largely

tables.
tract giv

devoted

I of 1895
since that

his way upward
stenographer with
pany to be secret

great concern.

from the position

the Southern
irv and assisi

As such he is

States Lumber
ant manager o
a power and a

influence in business circles of Pensacola

qualities by which he
organization, control a

tant affairs

under

Mr. Bingham

rose are effective
nd management o

today
)f the

his charge.

was born

Yankee

time.

raising of

As he prospered he not only

en

him by

boundaries and

number of

his father

remained upon

years

at the

but also extended its
the plantation for a

present

writing

tion in the public schools
later attending a business

to Pensacola

and secured a

Southern

is making

his home in Ocala.

In 1852 Colonel Martin

was united in marriage

lie Welborn, a native of
who died in 1859, leavi

W., an attorney

Meriwether county,
ing three children:

of Atlanta,

proved

the Southern

of Chicago
college. In

Spring,
is early
and St.

890o he came

position as stenographer
States Land & Timber

States Lumber

Cornm-

Advancement came
himself a man of

scientiousness

and, moreover, poi

executive

Georgia;

M., who is engaged in truck farming in Marion county;

and one who
tin wedded S
Carolina. Ti
riage: Salli<
Mary A. Bi
Waldo, living

ously stated,

infancy.

iarah

here are also t

e

rdsey,
upon
is lar

vegetables.
Colonel Martin

me management
long occupied
thrifty citizens
been interested

In 1864

Waldo, a native of
iree children by this

the wife of H. C. Monroe;

of Savannah,

Georgia;

his father's farm, which,

gely

devoted to

is practically living

it of his
a positic

interests 1
in among

of the community.

in politics

gate to many county,
both since and before

memorable
gate. For

assessed of organiz-
power of initiative,

there can be no real accomplishment.

department

the confidence

after department he rose, win-

of his

superiors and

ship and esteem of his associates, an indication of

Bingham's standing in bu
Mr. Bingham married,

gusta

as previ-

the production

retired,
sons.

leaving
He has

the prominent and

has always
as a dele-

and has served

district :
the war.

d state conventions
He was also at the

Charleston convention but not as a dele-

of years

Confederate camp, IE
always taken great

he was commander of
of Marion county and

pleasure in meeting

Oerting,

the parents
daughters.

a native of

seven

the republican party and
the Masonic order, the
lution and the Sons of I
known in social circles

worker ii
with the
member

asiness circles.

in x896,

Miss Fannie

Pensacola, and they are
en, four sons and three

fraternally i

n affiliates
s connected
American 1

federall Veterans. He is well
of the city and is an active

n the Presbyterian

Young

Men's

Christian

of the Pensacola Chamber

keeps in touch with

vancement and
gressive public
in securing for

with his belt line railroad

the general trend

gives an
projects.
the city

in order

active support

of Commerce he

of business

many pro-

He is especially interested

docks

connected

to improve trade

facilities

Com-

found

FLORIDA

and to meet more effectually industrial competition.

planter in

this state, he

purchased

two hundred and

His work in this
and far-sighted, a

city
force

has been efficient, constructive
e in public growth and an ele-

fifty acres of land in Gadsden county and has

been a successful

planter, raising high-grade tobacco.

ment in municipal development, while in

tions

his many fine qu

esteem and
in contact.

confidence

alities have gained fc
of all with whom he

social

for him the

come

He has made

extensive

and has installed

plantation being
the most modern

improvements upon his prop-
labor-saving machinery, his

today fully equipped
ideas.

according

Mr. Sizer married

Miss Alice Catherine Clark,

native of

Alabama, and both are widely and

ably known in this

vicinity.

favor-

Fraternally Mr.

HERNDON

SIZER.

is identified with the Benevolent Protective

Elks and he also belongs to the blue lodge

Order

of Masons

The tobacco

industry is rapidly

becoming

one of

the principal sources of wealth of Florida and the

men who are active in

its development are among

in New York.
the doctrines of
experience and

His religious views are in accord

the Baptist church.

A man of broad

identification with a representative

the factors in the upbuilding and

monwealth.

growth

of the com-

In Gadsden county the tobacco interests

*industry, his labors have not only proven an element
in his own progress but have also constituted a fac-

are in the hands of progressive, able and active men
who recognize the possibilities open to them in their

line of

work and whose constructive intelligence leads

tor in the development of

ever he
warmly

is known he is held i

regarded

where he

Gadsden county.
n high esteem and
is best known.

Wher-
is most

them to make the

best use

of their opportunities and

advantages. I
a prominent j
planters in the

amongg

them Herndon

)lace as one of

vicinity

Sizer occupies

the most successful

of Quincy and is a man who

ABRAM

WOLKOWSKY.

his individual

in general advancement
born in King Willian

a son of

prosperity an important factor
t. A native of Virginia, he was

1

Augustus

Sizer, natives of thatfstate.

the Civil war in the

army, and
engaged in
He had su

before

planting in

Home

county, October

2, 1868,

and Elizabeth H. (Ryland)

The father served

Guard of

and after the

during

the Confederate

close of

Virginia,

irvived his wife

their union were

since May

born nine children:

hostilities

May 16,
10, T899.
Robert I

The
striking

career
example

dustry and
success, fo

of Abram
les of the 1

I

Wolkowsky

power

perseverance in the

for he has

to a position of

flaggin
grant,
today
of Ke

labor.

many

of determination,

accomplishment of

risen from poverty and

affluence by his
At twenty-one a

obliged to peddle good
at fifty-one a successful
y West, owning two of

obscurity

own energy and un-

poor Russian

immi-

s for a living, he is
and wealthy merchant
the finest mercantile

New York city, who married
sen of Baltimore and they

Elizabeth,
nah, Georg

Minnie Theodora Thorm-

reside

on Long

Island;

deceased; John H., a resident of Savan-

nah, Georgia,

who first married Hattie

of North Carolina, who

is deceased,

E. Hammond

his second

union

establishments in the city.

The intervening

have not all been equally bright but their labors were
lightened by ambition and enthusiasm and in the end

all have brought him

something to the

incr

success

eased prosperity, adding
which places him today

being with Belle

ine, deceased; Sam
who married Grace

De Brummage

of Illinois; Cather-

of Seattle,

Comley, now deceased;

Washington,
Herndon,

among the men of marked ability and substantial worth

in the

where

he makes

Abram Wolkowsky

his home.

was born in

Russia,

March

of this

review;

who married

Thomas Miller, of

Virginia

Maryland; Mary
Lyne, of Orange,

Peachey,
Virginia ;

New York city,

Jones, of Cumberland,

who married

Oliver

and Josephine Julia, of

and he remained in his

native

he had attained his majority, when he

Atlantic, settling first
began his independent

in Nev
career

country until
crossed the

York city, where he

in the

new world. He

Richmond,
Until i8

Virginia.
i88 Herndon

no assets

Sizer remained in

aiding his father with the work of the plantation,

York,
of an

Virginia,

but in that

he went to New

joined his brother in the conduct

lumber

enterprise.

In 190o6

he traveled

pean continent and in the latter part of the

came to Florida,.where
nizing the rare oppor

he has

since resided.

where

important

on the Euro-
same year
Recog-

tobacco

beyond his

energy

and his hopefulness,

but he did not allow himself to become discouraged
and from that day to this has molded his career along
lines of determination and well directed ambition.

For a few years he worked

through the

coming in
with but

states of

to Florida.

eighty-five cents

as a peddler, traveling

Pennsylvania

Arriving

and Ohio and
in Jacksonville

in his pocket, he continued

goods,

chiefly jewelry, from

makes

ag

FLORIDA

house to house and after a few weeks spent in this
manner had accumulated enough money to bring him

to Key

West, where

figure upon the

streets,

selling his merchandise.

money,

for five

years

walking from

he was a familiar

house

to house

During all of this time he

practicing

strictest

thrift and

copal church, and in his

devoted their lives to the minis

Orlando

being now missionary

family were three sons who

stry, Bishop Gray of
bishop of the south-

ern jurisdiction of Florida, while the Rev. Joseph
Gray, formerly rector of the church at Gainesville

afterward of Nashville,

Tennessee,

some

economy,

and eventually had accumulated about three

years

There

were four

sisters

in the family:

thousand dollars, with which capital he embarked in

the mercantile business

he met with si
fully, making
and conformir

standards.

in I890. From the beginning

success, for he managed

a study of mo
Ie his activities

He is today

leading stores in Key

date clothing and

men's

his affairs care-

dern business conditions

to present
owner of

business

two of the

'est, one of them an up-to-
furnishing establishment on

Emma, who lives with her brother Bishop Gray; Mrs.
C. G. Joy, of Lawton, Oklahoma; Mrs. William

Magoffn, of
Boardman, of

Newport, Arkansas; and
Clarksville, Tennessee.

The other brother,

.

Rev. C. M. Gray,

Mrs. Mary

was reared

homee of Christian piety and devotion and his
tendencies seemed to fit him for the holy calling which
he made his life work. He was born in Waverly,

the corner of Green and

Duval

streets

and the other

a dry-goods store on the corner of Fleming and
Simonton streets. Both are modern, well managed

Tenness
became
Sewanee

ee, and after acquiring his
a student in the University

Tennessee, from

which he

early education
of the South at

was graduated

and profitable institutions, for they

a far-sighted,

discriminating

whom many years of hardship a
taught the value of economy in bi
things which form the foundation

ful merchandising.
Mr. Wolkowsky married,

Miss Rebecca L
they have three
Frank, born in

evinsky,
sons :

curred on the ioth
kowsky is considered

are directed by

and able business man,

nd privation

lying and
stones of

have

selling--
success-

on the Ist of May,

native

of Russia,

born April

3; and Joseph, who
of September, 1894.

today one of

se

15, I891;
birth oc-
Mr. Wol-

the substantial and

in 1874
in 1872
Bishop

and won his degree.
! and ordained to th
Quintard. Having q

he engaged a
Cleveland, T
Franklin and
until 1893; at
and at St. Pet

He was mat
ie priesthood

qualified

ie a deacon
in 1874 by

for the ministry,

activelyy in the work of the church

ennessee,
Spring
Ocala,
:ersburg

from 1872 unl
Hill, Tennessee,

Florida, from
from 1002 an

til

1882; at
from 1882

1902;

1912.

called to the latter city to become rector of St.

Episcopal church and during his

won many devoted friends
church, while his relations

residence

was

Peter's
here he

both in and out of the

with the

parish were of

prominent men of

Key West,

the industrial and corm-

the most satisfactory

character possible.

strove

mercial

interests

of which he has materially aided

at all times for the highest interests of the church

in upbuilding.
him because ii

His success

t has

difficulties and alm
and because it has

is the

been gained in
ost overwhelmir

come

to him

more

creditable

spite of hardships,
ig discouragements

as a result of

many

and its members and at the

promote the w
the community

earnestly

welfare ,

progress

at large,

along lines of

same tune

labored to

and betterment of

laboring

general

effectively

advancement,

reform

earnest

and persistent

labor.

and improvement.

During his life he traveled to

considerable

demise,

extent

accompanied by

and about four

his wife,

I

years
made

s prior to his
a trip to the

Holy Land and Egypt and

also visited

various

places in the Orient, deriving therefrom not only

CHARLES McILVAINE

GRAY.

much physical benefit but

also receiving

tion for his ministerial labors that

the inspira-

comes from

vYew-

Charles Mcllvaine

Gray, cashier of

the Central

the historic biblical

He married Clara

tional Bank of

younger

St. Petersburg,

residents of the

is active among

city whose

enterprise,

Bills Polk and they became the

dren, four of whom

parents

are now living:

of six chil-
Arthur R.,

bition and

factors
born in

progressiveness

are proving important

Franklin, Tennessee, February 5,

He was
I. and is

who is employed by the
their New York city ofl

i1

Westinghouse Company in
ce; and Clara, Charles M.

St. Petersburg.

passed away were

Gray, the latter
President Polk
Mrs. Gray was

a descendant

M. Gray was one

of great usefulness and his

age of
Texas,

memory

M. Gray was a native of Tennessee.

father was Rev. Joseph Gray, a rector of

yet remains as an inspiration and benediction to all

the Epis-

years

other

f,

1

setting.

_

I

FLORIDA

Charles

view,

M. Gray, whose name introduces this re-

was but

of the family

a young lad

at the time of the removal

from Tennessee to Florida and in the

schools of Ocala

and St. Petersburg

sued his preliminary education,

tended the University
Tennessee. Owing to

while

of the South

father's

later he at-
at Sewanee,

illness

incumbent upon him to start out in the

world and
collection
vanced to
1913, was
continues.
dicates his
a popular

patrons

entered the
department.
the position

elected

cash

Central National Ba

Subsequently

he felt it
business
nk in the
was ad-

of bookkeeper and in January,
hier, in which position he still

were killed during

the destructive

Not daunted by misfortune,

some of his attention to

had planted in orange

also destroyed

owner

in 1898.

of forty acres

between Hastings

resides,

devoting hi;

he made

frost of 1895.
a new start and

his land, which he again

trees, but his second grove

He has since become the

of valuable land

and Federal Point and there he
s acres largely to the cultivation of

Irish potatoes, which are followed in rotation by corn

and hay, his farm yielding
Besides this place he still oi
had previously purchased.

His long connection with the

capability, f
bank official,

by reason

winning

many

of his uniform

loyalty. He is
friends among
courtesy and

to the institution

question.
Mr. Gray i
and religious
vestryman of

various

interests

of the town.

the Episcopal

labors earnestly to
the influence of th

connected

promote the

organization.

Benevolent

Elks and the Woodmen

of the nature

of his recreation

fact that he is a member of

none

fraternal

He has been a
For two years and

growth

and extend

He is likewise

Protective

Order

rorld and something
is indicated in the

the St. Petersburg

thereon a number

him three crops

annually.

five acres which he

The home place

has been

of improvements

equipment as is considered

ern, progressive
St. Johns river

Wildwood
to him su

Farm.

farmer.

indispensable by
Iis land is situate

and is known under

Industry and

the mod-
ed on the

the name of

energy

bstantial success

has attained

factor in the

opment, having
tural resources

stretch of
have been

prosperity,

he has been a

general advancement and devel-
ibuted not only to the agricul-

state by developing

a productive

constructive value in trying

troducing new methods
agriculture in general.

which have

a bare

it his labors
out and in-

been of value

of the Pass-a-Grille

Yacht

He is well known among the leading

business men of the city and as his circle of

almost

coextensive

ance this is indicative

ac

\nglers
young
friends
quaint-

an upright

On January 19, I
marriage to Miss
Florida, where she

Mr. Atkinson

Rebecca R.

Taylor, a

native of

county

i87o, and a daughter of Ephraim Taylor. Mr. and
Mrs. Atkinson are the parents of five daughters:
Ethel, Irene, Maude, Grace and Ula. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Atkinson are well and favnrahlv known in thi

locality, where they are highly

V. ATKINSON.

high character,

having

esteemed as

made many

lasting

people

friends

since coming

to Federal

distinguishing

feature

in the

career

V. Atkinson is

the perseverance

which he evidenced

in attaining his ends,
today the owner of a
Point, Florida, known

and as a result thereof he is
productive farm near Federal
as Wildwood, and situated on

GENERAL

STEVENS

MAXWELL.

the St. Johns river.

South
mained

Carolina,

He was born

September 2,

with his parents until 1893,

roof and

tion in the schools of the

about

twenty

years

vicini

name

in Chester county,
74. and there re-

growmg

receiving his
tv. At the

came to Florida,

man-

educa-
age of
making

of Maxwell figures

of the history

of the south.

the name have been promin<
and political progress, and h;
upon the military annals of
Fortunate in having back of 1

ent in

prominently

on the

Representatives of
promoting material

Georgia

et tneir impress
and of Florida.

him an ancestry honorable

settlement near Federal

ployment as a

farm hand,

Point,

rT

tion for about six years. P
industrious, he accumulated

and there found em-

remaining ii
ersevering,

n that occupa-
energetic and

earnmgs

and only

and distinguished,

the lines of General

have been cast in harmony therewith and Jacksonville
has for a number of years known him as a legist, jurist.

soldier and also as one whose efforts

have'been

after his arrival was

enabled to buy an

trial benefit

in the development bf the state.

orange

grove comprised

ment, however,

of five

acres.

turned out unfortunate,

invest-

for his trees

birthplace was Fernandina

comes

and the year,

of Scotch ancestry, the

i866.

Maxwells figur-

years

was

on the road

bt

.

Maxwell's

1

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ing prominently in the land of hills and heather through
many centuries. Sir John Maxwell was chamberlain
of Scotland in the year 1241 and was succeeded by his
brother, Sir Aymer. One of the descendants of the
latter was the valiant companion of William Wallace.
In the present generation the family is represented in
Scotland by Lord Herries, Sir J. M. Sterling Maxwell,
of Pollock, and the Maxwells of Springkell. A branch
of the family was founded on American soil during
the period when Oglethorpe was colonizing Georgia,
and representatives of the name have since been prom-
inent in the south. One branch of the family settled
in Leon county, Florida, about 1840 and among Jack-
sonville's residents was David E. Maxwell, now de-
ceased, who served as a distinguished soldier in the
Civil war and rose to prominence in railway circles.
He was a nephew of Dr. George Troup Maxwell, father
of J. S. Maxwell. Dr. Maxwell became a distinguished
member of the medical profession, winning high hon-
ors in Florida. He commanded a regiment during the
Civil war, becoming colonel of the First Florida
Cavalry.
General John Stevens Maxwell, son of Dr. George
Troup and Martha Ella Maxwell, is indebted to the
public schools of Florida, Delaware and Georgia for
his early educational opportunities. He entered Prince-
ton University as a member of the class of 1889, but
left that institution at the close of the freshmen year.
He had previously, in the fall of I886, acquired some
knowledge of the real-estate business at Ocala and in
January, 1887, he took a second step in his business
career by entering the office of the auditor of the Flor-
ida Real Estate & Navigation Company at Jacksonville,
Florida, where he remained until January, 1889.
Within that period he several times won promotion. In
the latter year he turned his attention to the study of
law, and at the same time acted as stenographer to W.
W. Hampton, of Gainesville, Florida, attorney, with
whom he remained until February, 1890, when he came
to Jacksonville and accepted a stenographic position in
the law office of A. W. Cockrell & Son. In June, 1890,
he matriculated in the University of Virginia, where he
pursued a summer law course under Professor John
B. Minor, but the following September resumed his
duties with Cockrell & Son. In the spring of 1892 he
was admitted to the bar and continued in active prac-
tice until May 12, 1898, when he went to Tampa, Flor-
ida, to be mustered into the United States volunteer
army for the Spanish-American war. In December,
I898, he was mustered out and entered upon the gen-
eral practice of law in Jacksonville. His advancement
at the bar has been continuous. No dreary novitiate
awaited him. Almost immediately his skill and knowl-
edge won recognition and he has been continually ac-
corded a liberal clientage. In 1899 the city council

elected him city attorney of Jacksonville, but after a
contest in the courts the election was declared void.
The great fire of May 3, 190o, destroyed his law office,
but he immediately resumed practice and in January,
1902, entered into partnership with the Hon. Cromwell
Gibbons, who in the following year was speaker of
the house of representatives in the state legislature.
Under the firm name of Gibbons & Maxwell the part-
nership still continues, although in the interim Judge
Maxwell performed important judicial service. In
June, 1I07, he was appointed judge of the criminal
court of record for Duval county to fill out the unex-
pired term of Judge Samuel T. Shaylor. In May,
1908, he was nominated in the democratic primaries
for a four-years term, which appointment was not
made until May, 1909, so that he remains the incum-
bent in the position. His judicial duties have been dis-
charged with notable promptness and impartiality and
indicate his wide, accurate and comprehensive knowl-
edge of the principles of jurisprudence. In the trial
of cases he won an enviable reputation for his clear,
concise and forceful presentation of his cause, his de-
ductions always following in logical sequence, while
in the application of a legal principle he was seldom if
ever at fault.
On the ISth of November, I9o5, Judge Maxwell was
united in marriage to Miss Willie Mae Dancy and they
have one child, Martha Elizabeth Maxwell. Mrs. Max-
well's parents were William McLaws and Mae
(Young) Dancy, the former a representative of an
old Georgia family of Scotch lineage. General and
Mrs. Maxwell are communicants of the Episcopal
church and his political allegiance is given to the dem-
ocratic party. His social relations are with the Elks,
the Florida Yacht Club and the Robert Burns Associa-
tion of Jacksonville, of which he is the president. It
was Taylor who said: "Bind together your spare
hours by the golden cord of some definite purpose and
you know not how much you may accomplish. A man
is commonly either made or marred for life by the use
he makes of his leisure time." Recognizing this fact,
Judge Maxwell has "improved the shining hours,"
using his leisure for reading and recreation that has
constituted an even balance for his business and pro-
fessional activity. One point of great interest to him in
his life has been his military experience. On the 6th
of July, 1892, he joined Company A of the First Bat-
talion of the Florida State Troops, also known as the
Jacksonville Light Infantry. This was during a riot.
In August of the same year he was promoted to ser-
geant, but in 1893, because of business reasons, he
asked to be returned to the ranks. Promotion came to
him, however, in November, 1894,. when he was com-
missioned second lieutenant, and in May, 1896, he
was raised to the rank of captain. His company vol-

FLORIDA

unteered
in May,

for service in the Spanish-American war, and
x898, he went to Tampa, where he was ap-

pointed captain

teers,

U. S.

of Company

A., on the 19th of the month.

with his company

of infantry and assigned to the First Infantry.

28th of February,

rgo6, he became colonel of

I

He served

at Tampa, Fernandina and Hunts-

ville, Alabama, until mustered out of

hassee on the 4th of
and October of that

December,

year he was provost marshal of

the Fourth Army Corps at Huntsville.

ing January he resumed
ida State Troops as capt

talion,

his connection

am

of Company

and when the State Troops were

into two regiments he was commissioned senior major

and assigned

to the First Regiment.

colonel
On the
lis regi-

at the time of the outbreak of the war in

The smoke

from Fort

on the x6th of April of

that year he responded to the president's call for three
months' troops, joining the Second Ohio Volunteer In-
fantry. He continued with that command until after
the battle of Bull Run and was then mustered out, but

reenlisted for

serving

with the army of

ments and

cause

which he espoused.

has characterized

him in every

bravery and loyalty to the
The same spirit of fidelity

relation of life and

In early manhood Mr. Horr was connected with the

brokerage
cent years

business,

largely concentrated

ment and on the 27th of July, 1907,
as brigadier general in the Florida

assigned to command the

was commissioned
State Troops and

First Brigade, which position

upon his public duties. H
for the port and district of

1893, and was made United

e was collector of

y West from x889 until
States marshal for the

he occupied until January 4, 1913, when he was retired

with the rank of major general.

and military interests

Even his professional

do not constitute the entire scope

southern district of Florida in February,
has since been continued in this position,

period of fifteen

years, and

the record

He figured in financial

1898. lIe
covering a
ich he has

a public-spirited

of his activity, for Judge Maxwell is

citizen

progress of Jacksonville and the state. In the conduct
of private business affairs he has contributed to general

unprovement.

He became the

secretary of

the Ucita

Investment Company, which erected a ten story, steel,
fireproof building at the corner of Hogan and Forsyth

streets, and has in
of public progress.

credit to an honored family

a high

of American

of record.

e history is
He stands

citizenship-a

splendid example of the true southern gentleman, whose

activities

further

a

made
circles

for a number

of years

of the First National Bank

until 1909.
secretary o
and 1908.

as one of the

at Key

was defeated for

West from x893
the position of

state on the republican ticket in iSo4
.e is one of the standard-bearers of his

party and his position is never
he stands loyally by his honest
expresses fearlessly. He does

the scale of public policy but determines
principles which he believes to be right.

On the I5th
Mr. Horr was

of February,

united

at Sidne
to Miss

Frazer of Sidney, and
and Harriet K., the lat-

them by

-y, Ohio,
Lue E.

his participation in events of public moment whereby

the substantial welfare, upbuilding and

progress

Frazer,

a daughter of J. F.

their children

are:

Frazer

state are

concerned.

ter the wife of Dr. L. F. Hubble of

Sidney.

Mr. Horr

is a member of the Ohio Commandery

of the military order of the Loyal Legion and he be-

to the

Seminole

Club of Jacksonville.

acquaintance in the city in which he makes

JOHN FOLEY HORR.

a wide

his home, and

attractive social qualities

worth have gained for him the high regard
with whom he has been brought in contact.

A splendid official

Horr, who

record

since February,

is that of John Foley
1898, has been United

personal
of those

States

marshal for the southern district of Florida.

He is one of the republican leaders of the state and
his wide knowledge of the political situation and his

unquestioned interest

to occupy

the position

in the public good well fit him

that is his.

was born in

Mechanicsburg, Ohio, February
Dr. Obed and Catherine F. Horr.

in the public

schools

at Springfield, Ohio,

and in the

I5, -1843,
He was
Greenway

where he was pursuing

a son of
a student
Academy

his edu-

Ralph Veillard, a capitalist of St. Petersburg, who
has been actively identified with the material develop-

ment and political

progress

of the city,

as councilman and in that position exercises his official

First Florida Volun-

scarcely cleared away when

service at Talla-
. In September

In the follow-
with the Flor-

L, First Bat-
reorganized

three years,

the Ohio and Cumberland.

participated in a number of hotly contested

1903, he was commissioned as lieutenant

ever proved his

In this connection he

On the 20th of

has been especially manifest

and wholesale grocery
his attention has been

and one deeply interested in the welfare and

is most commendable.

other ways contributed to the work

Judge Maxwell's life

manhood and

his own interests but never exclude

an equivocal one, for
convictions, which he
not weigh his acts in

in marriage

RALPH VEILLARD.

Sumter's

engage-

service.

customs

directors

I

serving

is now

guns had

in his official

but in

wh

I

He has

as well as

FLORIDA

prerogatives in

support of

various movements and

measures which are of marked value to the community.

He was born

in the

gust, 1864, and was but
of his father's death.

western part of France, in

four years of

age at

the time

With his widowed mother he

have been productive of substantial

efits for St. Petersburg.
credit for what he has

He certainly

accomp

results

and ben-

deserves

much

wished, for he started

out in life practically empty-handed and his
ity has followed merit and ability.

prosper-

crossed the

the eastern s

eleven years in
ing much of the
engineer by the
He had receive

gained practical
road company.
spent three yea

Atlantic to Maryland in 1879, locating on
shore, opposite Baltimore. He spent about

Baltimore and that vicinity and dur-

e period was employed as
Baltimore & Ohio Railrc

'ed technical training

experience

After

in his

leaving

rs in the navy

a mechanical

LINCOLN

G. STARBUCK.

iad Company.

in France and

service

to the rail-

the railway service he
department at Wash-

Among
members
Starbuck,

the most able and

of the

Orange

in control of

tice in Orlando,

where

deservedly

county bar

successful

is Lincoln

a representative private

he also has acted

ington,

D. C., and in

the year of th
sire to locate

1895

xe big fi
in this

I895
reeze.

came to Florida,

He had

state and made

which

was

Ways had a de-
his way south-

ward to spend the winter here, but was so well pleased

for four full terms.

city, havi
his name
fessional

ing located

is one of the pioneers in the
in i89o, and since that time

has been well and honorably known in pro-
and social circles. He was born in Mis-

that he determined to remain. He opened

a fertilizer,

grain and electrical supply house in St. Petersburg
and conducted the business along substantial lines until

19II, when
Company.

he sold out to the E.

O. Painter

Fertilizer

In the meantime he had also engaged in
table growing and recently sold a sixty

fruit and vegetable

acre tract planted to grapefruit,

realizing

oranges

a handsome profit from thi

He cleared the land and planted the

and peaches,

is realty transfer.
trees himself and

souri and spent his childhood and early manhood in

Arkansas, comin

tember, 18
growing a
of work,
study law.
Orlando in

g from that state to Florida in
He turned his attention to o

and, although
abandoned it

he was successful

after five

years

In pursuit of this ambition'he

Sep-
range

in this line
in order to
came to

and read in the offices of the late

J. Hugh Murphy, a well known atto
admitted to the Florida bar in October,

irney.

was

1892, and since

developed a
studied the

chased

a fine property.

s fine proper
situation :

his land, which

oped it along
peach orchard

grove

scientific

It was only after he had

for several years tl
was a choice tract.

hat he pur-
He devel-

and practical lines and his

rd was the largest in Pinellas county, the
nicely in bearing when he disposed of it.

that time has practiced
and comprehensive kno

in this

where

his ability

knowledge of legal principles have

drawn to him a large and lucrative patronage.

the important

cases he has handled of

are especially worthy of note. '
that involving the contest in the

Among

late years two

The first of

was

wet and dry election

In all of his dealings he has met with

success

owinmg

to his judicious investment, his sound judgment and
his enterprise. He has handled considerable realty
here and for the past four years has been president of

197 in Orange
Starbuck was

James D.

Beggs,

county, in the conduct of which

associated

with the late Judge

acting on behalf of the

forces.

After a long and exceedingly bitter fight, during which

the St. Petersburg Building & Loan

In 1886 Mr. Veillard

Miss Minnie Jeffers,

was united

a native

and they have one child,

eave,

an electrician

Association.
in marriage

of Baltimore, Maryland,
. the wife of G. C. Len-

of St. Petersburg.

a daughter, Violet, when she was
Mr. Veillard has taken quite

also lost

twelve years of a
an active interest

the case

was carried to the supreme court, the verdict

was rendered

in 1901 1
case of s
county c
sessments

in favor

Mr. Starbuck

statewide inte
commissioners

carry

ficient petition

of the prohibitionists; Aga
was called upon to handle

interest, involving

Orange

the right of the

county to levy

on drainage work without

a suf-

as provided by law requesting them

local political

affairs

and is

now serving for

the third

to do

Representing M. M. Smith and two other

term as a member of the city council. It
ing his incumbency in this office that the
which has meant so much to the develop

city h
power

has been acquired.

It has been dur-

water

much to the development of the

He does everything

to further the public welfare and

identified with the Board of Trade since

in his

taxpayers, Mr.

front commissioners
The decision
is now used as

has been
organiza-

tion to

Starbuck

brought suit

and won his case without

of the

court

a precedent

his private practice

was an important
in similar cases.
Mr. Starbuck is

against

difficulty.
one and
In addi-
attorney

for the Peoples National Bank, for N. P. Yowell

in which

connection

for general improvement

future of this

section

ion he has also been a
lnt. He has great faith

of the

state and i

among those whose business enterprise

a factor
:h in the

s prominent
id capability

Company of
Company and
ing Company.

of Sanford, for the Curry & Smith Cigar
and the F. Joseph Raehn Plumbing & Heat-

At the present time Mr. Starbuck

serving as county solicitor

of Orange county, having

L p

as solicitor

s

o

h

h

FLORIDA

previously filled four full terms as

Orlando with credit to

faction
aided

himself

city solicitor of

and to the entire satis-

of the citizens whom he represented.

in the

organization

of the

Bank.
Mr. Starbuck is a member of

tion of Orlando,
the Independent
sided in the city

of the local Bc

Order

Peoples

He also
National

the Pioneers Associa-
)ard of Trade and of

of Odd Fellows.

since pioneer

times,

Having

he is well

favorably known here and his straightforward and

honorable

dealings have won

esteem

an extensive

for him the warm

circle

of friends.

jobbing

cities of the United

twenty-five hundred
i892 he resigned th;

dollars a

States

on a salary

year and expenses.

at position and began business

his own account in St. Louis as a manufacturer

extinguishers,
ing Company,
still conducting

business

Stempel was

organizing the Stempel Fire Extinguish-
of which he was president and which is
g in St. Louis the largest manufacturing

of that character

actively

in the United States.

connected therewith

when he sold out and came to Florida.

investment in
the cultivation

:itrus groves and was

of his

groves

in Lake

until 1897,

Here he made

largely engaged in

county,

He then went

ten thousand
to Lakeland,

dollars

through a freeze.

where he purchased some groves but also

lost part of that

O. A. STEMPEL.

orchard the following

year through

came to Pinellas county and took

up his

Inventor, me
-these four lii
O. A. Stempel

.rchant, manufacturer

and fruit-raiser

les of activity cover the fields

has labored,

bringing

in which

him a wide

ouaintance in business circles in various sections of

the country and gaining for
of success. He now makes

having

born in I
of Willia,
Berlin.

purchase

:d his pr

him a

substantial measure

his home near Clearwater,

sent

m 1912.

He was

Berlin, Prussia, August 9, 1845, and is a son
m and Louise (Grof) Stempel, also natives of
The father came to the United States with

Carl Schurz. He brouw
and, settling at Fort M

ght with him considerable money

Eadison,

He had been a surgeon

wa, purchased a large
in the Prussian army

and was a finely educated man, who spoke six different

languages.

Although he took up

agricultural pursuits

in America he was nevertheless induced to take charge

some difficult surgical cases while in Iowa.

from that state to

the south he purchased

Remov-
twenty-

four hundred acres of fine Mississippi bottom land and
there spent his remaining days. In 1849, the year after
he crossed the Atlantic to the new world, he brought his

family.

A few years later he

wife, who survived him,
married twice and had

unions,

of whom eight are

passed away and his

died in Missouri.

He was

abode at Clearwater,

ducted a livery business.

ent farm,

a fine
carries
and he
during

comprising

grove

covering

on gardening,

where for

In 1912 he came to his pres-

forty acres,

about
raising

upon which he

twelve

vegetables of

He also
all kinds,

has taken out a patent upon a method of pro-

vegetables in the summer time.

also has some fi
large brickyard,

Moreover,

ne clay land and (
his clay being

Mr. Stempel

expects to develop a
of superior quality.

he has extensive interests in

one time was the

owner

Texas

of over ten thousand

Iowa, Texas and Florida.
In 1872 was celebrated the marriage of Mr.

and Miss Elmira

daughter of
slaveholder .
who served i
was called u

Rosson,

Washington
of Missouri.

in the

acres m

Stempel

a native of Missouri and a
Rosson, who was a large

However, he

Union army.

had two sons

In 1909 Mr.

pon to mourn the loss of his

had but two children and the

deceased.

The son,

daughter, Louise

G. A. Stempel,

now married and has two

Mr. Stemp
indicated by
ius and natu

twenty

now living,

being the youngest child.
Upon the home farm in Iowa,
the first ten years of his life an

attended the country sc
Louis where he learned
trades and also master
quently he turned his

:hools.

O. A. Stempel

O. A. Stempe

I

He then went

the confectionery and I
.d the jewelry trade.
attention to the patent

spent
period
to St.
bakery
Subse-
right

business and he now controls thirty-seven patents upon

his own inventions,

of these. At
F. Meyrose L
pany of St. L4
during which

making

one time he was
amp & Lantern
ouis, filling that

considerable money

vice president of the
Manufacturing Com-

position

period he traveled,

for ten years,

making

studied
knowled

his investments

Stempel
:. They
, is also

of Clearwater, is
ouise and Dorris.
e of Florida as is

His inventive gen-

talents have enabled him to do
that is fast making it one of th

d properties of
the question of
ge is not only

a theoretical

fruits

and his

.practical character.

enables

to carry

forward

whatever he undertakes

a creditab
* business

>le

position

to successful completion
he has now made for

among

men of Pinellas county.

His enthusiastic

to Clear-

water is clearly reflected by the

appeared
Optic an
"Your ki
are now i

above

name

d is addressed

recent

in the Quincy (Illinois)
his friends in that state:
date received. The roses

farm.

of fire

but lost

a time he

con-

acres.

citrus

_

*

- \
L *j2

FLORIDA

much for you to see them. But because you can't I
will write you a little sketch of the country at the pres-
ent time. It is healthful, picturesque, historical. We
imagine that Irving must have visited this or some
similar place when he wrote the lullaby story of Rip's
twenty-year slumber. The bluff on which this beauti-
ful town is situated is nearly fifty feet above the level
of the sea and Clearwater Bay is one and three-fourths
miles wide, enclosed from the Gulf of Mexico by a
chain of long, narrow islands of sand as white as snow.
The roll of the surf on these islands cannot be equaled
for bathing even by that on the Atlantic beach. Thou-
sands of varieties of fish teem these waters and the
fishermen with their nets and sharpies are constantly
bringing carloads of them into the market, whence they
are shipped as far north as New York. Occasionally
a party wishing more strenuous fishing than is afforded
by these placid waters of the bay take larger boats and
go out into the Gulf for several miles, where .they
fish for snapper, grouper, kingfish and such varieties,
often coming in at evening with a ton or more of fish
caught entirely with hook and line. It is no infrequent
occurrence to see the flat, monster kingfish spring
twenty feet from the water with the decoy bait and
hook in his mouth, where he shakes himself in a vain
effort to gain his freedom. You might with the aid of
an eye glass observe about twenty miles off the shore
a fleet of sail boats apparently lying still. These are
the sponge boats with their Greek divers aboard, who
are risking their lives many fathoms under the heavy
waters, surrounded with reefs of glittering coral and
exposed to the dangers of sharks, devil fish, etc., while
obtaining wealth from the very depths of the sea. The
sponges from these waters are found in the markets of
every city in the country. We have all heard fish
stories but after living on this coast for years, as the
writer has, the old fish stories seem quite mild in com-
parison with what is true of these southern waters.
But it is useless to attempt to give in so short a space
even a synopsis of the thousands of curious and inter-
esting freaks of nature as found here. So I will go
ashore and climb the Clearwater Bluff, at the very
spot where General Jackson built Fort Harrison on the
bluff of Clearwater Bay, and which the records at
Washington, D. C., show to be the most healthful
place or camping ground in the United States. I find
myself surrounded by large seedling orange trees, now
laden with the noted orange, the 'Florida Seedling,'
the best in the world. These trees are over forty years
old, no frost has ever yet blighted them and they are
now laden with golden fruit, firm, sweet and juicy.
Then there are trees bearing great clusters of tanger-
ines, mandarines, kumquats, grapefruit and lemons.
From six to ten carloads of fruit leave this little vil-
lage daily and there are numbers of instances where

growers realize from six hundred to one thousand
dollars per acre from the sale of citrus fruits. In the
mid-winter season the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
cannot handle the crop fast enough but soon they will
be getting scarce and then again you will see the trees
burst forth into full bloom. Who has not enjoyed the
fragrance of the orange blossom, let him come to
Clearwater during the months of February and March.
We have in our garden from November to June straw-
berries, peas, beans, beets, cabbage, tomatoes, roasting
ears, Irish potatoes, etc. We have only a population
of one thousand-no one has ever written much about
us, but we are gradually coming to the front as a win-
ter resort and I understand that we have some of your
Quihcy people stopping here at present."

GEORGE BOWNE PATTERSON.

For forty-two years George Bowne Patterson has
been identified with the bar of Key West either in
active practice as a lawyer or as a public official whose
services have been in the direct path of his profession.
Presidential appointment kept him continuously in
the office of United States district attorney for twenty
years, and the record which he made was such that
it placed his name on the roll of eminent representa-
tives of the bar of southern Florida. He was born
at Key West, October I, 1848, a son of Hon. Alex-
ander Patterson, whose birth occurred at Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, and who became a resident of Key
West in the '30s, and during the War of 1812, al-
though but a youth in years, served as a militiaman
from the state of New York. The grandfather had
also been a soldier, defending the interests of the
colonists in the Revolutionary war. The ancestry of
the family in the paternal line can be traced back to
Scotland, and it was while this country was still num-
bered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain
that the first of the family in America took up his
abode in New England, where his descendants lived
for several generations, Alexander Patterson remain-
ing in that section of thiecountry and in New York
until he sought a home in the south in the '3os. He
soon was recognized as a prominent factor in both
business and social circles, being identified with mer-
cantile interests for a long period. He also repre-
sented Monroe county in the state legislature for a
number of terms, being a member of the house dur-
ing the early existence of that body. He served as
mayor of Key West for a number of years and his
administration was at all times businesslike, practical
and progressive. During the greater part of the Civil
war he was in charge of the naval station at Key West

FLORIDA

for the United

18go
remain

States government.

He passed away in

at the advanced age of seventy-nine

ns

interred

in the

His wife, who bore the maiden

was a native

of German descent.

of Charleston,

years,

Key West cemetery.
name of Sarah Fol-

South Carolina and

Her death occurred

in 189go when

she had reached the advanced age of eighty-four years.

Her father

was Dr. Edwin Folker, who

time a very prominent physician

George
Mr. and
ters living,

was at one

of Charleston.

Bowne Patterson is the only living

Mrs. Alexander
g, both being r

Patterson

residents

but has

of Key

Sson of
two sis-

West.

Island city has been his home throughout his entire

life and his early education

instruction of

a private tutoi

was acquired
r. When th

under the

the Civil war

broke out his parents sent him to Cuba to continue

jamin Harrison,

though

a candidate

Mr. Patterson was importuned by

general of the United

to the position

Florida, bt
suited in tl
terson has
tions, incl
member of
The duties

of judge of the northern

it there were c
he appointment
i also held v;

for the posi-
the attorney

States to accept appointment

counterr

district

influences which

of another man.

anrous

minor

Mr. Pat-

official

including that of member of the school board,

the board of aldermen
of these positions he h

the same faithfulnes
positions of farther

and city attorney.
as discharged with

that has marked his course

reaching importance.

years he has been the legal
American & English Marine

Association

of London

writers in all salvage matters

For many

representative of

Underwriters

and of the French

Salvage
Under-

in his district.

his education and

he attended

a university near

Havana, from which he was graduated on the com-

pletion
Key
the H

of a three-year course.

He then returned to

West and entered upon the study of law with

Hon. Thomas

judge for the

ceptor.

J. Boynton,
district

southern

United

States

district

of Florida, as

After thoroughly mastering many of

principles of jurisprudence
in May, 1871, and in the i

he was admitted to

1871, and in the intervening period of

the bar
forty-

two years has remained an active representative of

the profession, practicing in the courts of Key

filling offices which have called into
and ability as a lawyer. Shortly
to the bar he was appointed b

office

of prosecuting attorney:

West or

play his knowledge
after his admission

by Governor Hart to the
y of Monroe county and

likewise
attorney

vice president,

one of the

for the First National Bank of

In the city of his nativity, on the
1876, Mr. Patterson was united in

Ida E. Bethel,

Bethel
Bethel,

directors
Key

26th of January,
marriage to Miss

a daughter of the late Judge
and a sister of Judge

of Key West,

who is

now occupying

eleventh judicial circuit court of

terson died

and five daughter

of Norfolk,

5, I906, leaving
s: Lucille, the

Virginia;

Braxton, of Jacksonville,

of H.

A. Prindle of

the bench
Florida.

Winer
L. W.
of the

Mrs. Pat-

six children, a son
wife of C. W. Oak-

Eva, the wife of

Florida;

J. Marshall

Frederica, the

New York city;

at home;

George Elliott, who is a graduate of the New
University and is now a practicing lawyer in

filled that position

for three years,

time Governor Hart appointed him
torney for the sixth Florida judicial

at the end

of which

prosecuting

circuit.

York

and Effie

Mr. Patterson

At the

estant

Episcopal church

Aletta, also at home.
s membership in St. Paul's

of Key West,

same time he was made a member of Governor Hart's

staff with the rank of colonel.

President Grant United

the southern

reappointed to this
and Benjamin Hai

district

In 1874 he was ap-

ed States
of Florid,

district at--

was

office by Presidents Hayes, Arthur

prison, concluding

a seventeen-year

is senior warden.

He is

a Master

Mason

and for

nine consecutive years was master
He also holds membership with

Odd Fellows, and in every relation

ling qualities

respect,

have commanded

>n of life his ster-
for him the high

confidence

service in that position

ministration
administration

of Grover C
n, from 1885

I 1894 und
leveland,
until I889,

under the second ad-

under

whose

he devoted him-

he has been associated.

period of
directed i

his course at the bar and in office
i the line of his profession and hi

has been

private

practice

occupied

the position

States

district attor-

ney. During
fice he made

Mr. Patterson's

incumbency of that of-

a clean and creditable record, as he has

done in every position

of public trust that he has been

to fill. For nine years he

Stoneman)

office

of postmaster of Key

resigning the position in

Because

fitness

as a financier

and an attor-

1909. During

active

member

all of these years
of the bar of the

he has remained an
city and for many

Frank

B. Shutts was chosen a special representa-
comptroller of the currency of the United

years was senior partner in the law firm of Patter-

son & Harris,

Harris.

During

associate

in practice being J. Vining

the administration of

States,
selecting

and that fact is largely

Miami

President Ben- bank in Miami

i as his home.
not proving entire

responsible for his
A receivership of a
ely satisfactory, Mr.

of judge

FLORIDA

Shutts was sent by the comptroller to clear up the

tangle and finally to

manner

bank won him

it possible

close the receivership.

in which he closed up the

a large

circle

for him to consider ]

liome and paved the wa
has had as a resident of

for tl

affairs

tact-

of the

of friends and made
Miami as a permanent
he uniform success he

this city.

In his home relations

happy.

On June 8,

Mr. Shutts

I910, he married Miss

is particularly

Agnes

John, of Aurora, Indiana, a daughter of the late John
and Julia (Bush) John, representatives of two of the

old families of that

state.

little daughter.
In all of his business and social

have a charming

relations

Mr. Shutts

Frank B. Shutts

diana,

September

pioneers, of
empire out o

was born in Dearborn county, In-

II, l87o.

that splendid
if the wilderness

is a son of Indiana

stock that has

created

His father is Abram

is looked upon

as a leader,

possessing

faculty called personal magnetism which

to him
integrity

and gives them confidence

He is an able and

that peculiar

draws men

in his ability and

successful

business man

Shutts, born in 1841, and his mother, Mrs.

(Barker)

Shutts, born in

tended the public schools at

graduated from the high

Five years
University.
the practice
practitioner
He served f

later he

Frank B.

4
b

Amanda
Shuts at-

is a prominent

figure in all of the lines of

are building up Miami

and southern

activity

Florida.

Aurora, Indiana, and was

school

of that

city in 1887.

was graduated from De

Immediately on hi
of law at Aurora.

at the bar, building up

Pauw

is graduation he began
He was a successful

a large clientele.

or several years as general counsel for

interurban railway operating in Indiana and Ohio.
He is president of the Southern Indiana Telephone
Company and has been largely interested in the elec-
tric light, gas and public water concerns in that part of

the state, as well as

in other manufacturing industries.

John Earle

of his

JOHN EARLE PERKINS.

Perkins,

who is now in

the third

service as treasurer of Leon county, is

bered among the

men on the

roster

most able, conscientious and

of county officials.

in Tallahassee, July 30, i87
Day and Joanna (Willson)

native of

Florida and the latter

and is

He w
a son

efficient
as born
of John

Perkins, the former a

of Missouri.

being impressed with the

909rom
i from

a business

point of

to this city, establishing

coming the
of the Flor
its subsidiary

possibilities of
Mr. Shutts re-

a law office

and be-

legal representative of Henry M. Flag
ida East Coast Railway Company and
ry interests in south Florida. In 1910

organized The Herald Printing
pany, which is the owner of th

leading

& Publishing Com-
e Miami Herald, the

daily newspaper in south Florida,

that time has

been president

principal stockholder.
was increasing to such

distance

in disposing

of the

Finding that

and since

company and its
his law practice

an extent that he required

of th

Mr. Shutts, on January
firm of Shutts, Smith &

ie large volume of business,
i, 1912, organized the law

Bowen,

a firm that has taken

a leading position in the practice of law in this

It is composed of

formerly

Frank B. Shutts;

of Jacksonville; and

of Indianapolis,

number of
organized
operative 1

years.

where he was

state.

W. Pruden Smith,

D. Bowen, formerly
city attorney for a

Mr. Shutts is president of the newly

Miami Building

& Loan Association, a co-

financial institution, which

is rapidly filling

a long-felt want in the city.
Mr. Shutts is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and his fraternal affiliations are with the Benev-

olent Protective

Gamma
Florida
of the

Delta
State

Seminole

Order

of Elks, the

Masons

and Phi

He belongs to. the Miami and the

Bar Associations.

He is also a member

Club of Jacksonville.

ler,

father enlisted in the Confederate army when he

seventeen years of age
tire four years. He
Gettysburg and was Ii

was

and served throughout the en-

was wounded

at the battle of

eft upon the battlefield,

where

he lay upon the ground for three days and three nights

before receiving help. The injury afterward
tated the amputation of his left leg. He jo

army as a private but his

efficient,

necessi-
ined the

loyal and able

service won him promotion to the rank of

and as such he

turning to Le
mission busin
life divided h
his duties as

received

his honorable

dischaq

captain
e. Re-

on county, he engaged in the cotton com-

ess and

for the last sixteen years

is attention between that

of his

occupation and

county treasurer, a position

which he

held at the time of his death. His wife has also passed

away. T
William,
George B
of the Ca
twins, the

'o their union were born seven children:

who died

., an

in infancy; Ida,

also deceased;

attorney; Thomas E., who is cashier

ipital City Bank; C
former a resident

latter deceased;

and John

o. W. and Maggie May,
of Tallahassee and the

of this

review.

The last named acquired his early education in the
Tallahassee public schools and supplemented this by
a course in a business college in Poughkeepsie, New
York, graduating in 1899. Immediately afterward

he turned his attention to banking, becoming

nected with the Capital City Bank,

for two years, after

which he

Bank of Madison, Florida.

con-

where he remained

spent six months

in the

His father's health fail-

ing at the end of that time, Mr. Perkins

was obliged

L

T.

1.

FLORIDA

to return home and assume
county treasurer, to which

the unexpired

position

term.

the duties of the

office of

he was appointed

In 1906 he was

and is now in his third term,

elections proving the

discharges
has made a

acceptability of

his duties ably

record in

elected

and deep

regret

still resides in that

to the

his two

his service.

and conscientiously

office for constant

consideration

of the best interests of the community.
Mr. Perkins married Miss Caroline C. Chaires,

was felt at his

passmg.

city. In their family

children, of whom Judge Walton

others

Susie Lee and

Judge Walton remained
to the time of his marriage.

His widow
were three

is the eldest, the

Will N.
at home with his parents

Practically his

has been spent in Palatka and in
ated from the high school. He pu

entire

1903 he was gradu-
arsued his law course

in the Washington and Lee University at Lexington,

they are the parents

born December 4,
the Presbyterian

with the '
Protective

given

of one son, John E., Jr., who

Mr. Perkins

is a member of

church and fraternally is

Woodmen of the

Order of

to the democratic

any movement calculated
ment and development.

connected

World and the Benevolent

His political

allegiance

and his support to

to promote

general

advance-

Virginia,

where

he was graduated

with the

class of

igo6. He took the bar examination in that state be-

fore the

supreme

practice in the
same year. Hi:
Virginia was he
in his minority

court

courts of t
s certificate

in 1905 and was admitted to

:his state
from the

in October of the

supreme

court of

eld because of the fact that he was still

and was

reached the required

given

him until he had

age of twenty-one

has since engaged in general

years.

practice and has

for himself a most creditable position

tive of the bar.

as a representa-

From the latter part of

JUDGE

V. WALTON.

November I, 1911, he

was associated

with H.

ryday, under the firm style of Merryday

Judge V. Walton, trained for hi
of the oldest and most efficient

s profession
universities

one

of the

south and since attaining his majority actively con-

nected
clientag

with the

practice of law,

at Palatka,

county, Tennessee,
John N. and Katie
mer a native of Ala

having now a large

was born in Gallatin,

August
Lee (

Sumner

16, 1884, his parents being

Vertrees)

Walton, the

Ibama and the latter of Tennessee.

They were married in Gallatin, Tennessee, although
John N. Walton had spent his early youth in his na-
tive state, there remaining until he entered school as

and since that time has been alone.

lawyer, well versed
On the 29th of

was united in

Howard,
daughter
two child

& Walton,

He is

an able

in his profession.

Nove

marriage

a native of Marion
of Captain James E
ren: Sophie Elizab

Lee. Mr. Walton
democratic party

nicipal affairs,

mber, 1909, Judge Walton
to Miss Sophia Elizabeth

county, Fl
I. Howard.

lorida, and

>eth Braulim and

gives his political allegiance to the

and takes an active

interest in mu-

cooperating heartily in many movements

for the welfare and upbuilding of the city along po-

a student in the University of Nashville.

attended the Emory and Henry I
where he pursued a course in civil

College
engine

He also

of Virginia,
:ring. When

Judge Walton was but six weeks old the family came
to Palatka, Florida, where the father entered the

litical and other lines.

Like his father, he

a mem-

ber of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and of the

Methodist Episcopal church.

His has been

spent life, evidenced by the fact that many

warmest

friends

a well
of his

are those who have known him from

wholesale
Vertrees,

business

in connection

and Jr., under the

with James

his boyhood days

to the present.

firm style of Ver-

trees & Company.

Mr. Walton remained a partner

in that business until his death, which

occurred

23, 1912, when

was an
church,

active

he was fifty-seven years of age. He
member of the Methodist Episcopal

ever making

his first consideration.

his religious
Fraternally

service

and duty

was connected

JAMES WILLIAM

It is significant

of the trend

more and more important

CASE.

of modern

times

business affairs are

with the Knights of Pythias, becoming a prominent
representative of that order, in which he advanced
rapidly until he became chancellor commander. He

trusted to

young

men, who

are proving

their ability

by the excellent results which they obtain and by the'
progressive policies which they advocate. James Wil-'

was also a Woodman of the World.

In politics he

liam Case is one

of the prominent men of this

was a democrat, active in
was made one of the three
the Putnam county bonds.

commissioner but

resigned.

support of the party, and

trustees

having in

charge

He was also elected county

Palatka numbered him

among her valued, representative and honored

citizens

in Hastings
success to

Florida, and

has done much by his rapid

justify the modern idea.

prominent in financial

of the

Hastings

Banking

dollar corporation, but

circles

He is not only

of the town

Company,

is connected

as cashier

a thirty thousand
with a number of

i,

FLORIDA

other enterprises

velopment of the
James Willian
North Carolina,

ilton and

were

natives

of the

which greatly contribute to the de-

was born in Guilford

June 9, 1877, a

(Thorp) Case.

county,

parents

secretary
vestment

and treasurer of the Southern

Hotel

Company of Hastings, an organization

is incorporated for thirty thousand dollars.

man who by the shi
his foresight and his

various

eer force

initiative is of

& In-
which

He is

great value to

organizations with which he is connected and

spent his
February

entire

2, IgOZ,

life as an agriculturist, passing

, in his sixtieth
name of Bruce

year. The mother,
in honor of Charles

who through the medium of them has contributed

largely to the rapid growth of the
In the fall of Igo8 Mr. Case was

town.
united

In marriage

who was

North Carolina in the

resident of
is of Englis

nial days. James

William

the fourth in order of birth
dren. He was reared on th

county,

days of her birth,

state.
to this

is now a

The Case family
country in colo-

t son and
nine chil-

e home farm in Guilford

schools

to Miss
lina and

Ethel Troy

Finlator, a. native

the expansion

of North Caro-

a daughter of John Finlator, and they

the parents of one son, James
In his political associations

and is

considered an important factor in

is a democrat

the local

of trade, the de-

in the neighborhood in the acquirement of his educa-
tion and subsequently attended high school to com-

plement his learning.

farm, ass

isting his father

until he was twenty-four
he was appointed deputy

He remained on the home
r in the management thereof,

years o
county

at which time

recorder,

serving in

its people,

life of tf
treasurer

he has become connected

ie town,

having been elected

of Hastings

present in that capacity.

tist church

and gives to

material support.

two terms

He is a mem
that organize

As a member

with the public
to the office of
and serving at
ber of the Bap-

ition n

noral and

of the Board of

that capacity
and ability.
management

for

a period of

six years

At the suggestion of
of the American

with efficiency

a boyhood friend the

Bank of

Trade he finds

often occasion

to assist in

promo-

tion of measures which have greatly benefited the com-
mercial life of the town. His fraternal relations are

Greensboro,

North Carolina, selected him

as the head

with the Knights of Pythias.

Mr. Case

is a man

of their savings de
spicuous capability

apartment and he

in this

position

it in order to remove to Florida.

served
until he

con-

resigned

In January, 1909,

strongly marked by character and
ful element in the community,
traits have won him the high re

has become a force-

where

guard

his sterling

we find him employed by Smith, Richardson
roy of Jacksonville, Florida, in which position

mained for a fe
time to Hastings

to accept

the position of

& Con-
n he re-

at that

cashier

the Hastings Banking Company, an office which he has

now held

for over three years. As cashier of the bank

of all with whom
ness or social way

his own ends, he
ant factor in the
along this line ha

contact

a busi-

has been actuated
has encompassed

has been and is a helpful and cooper-

general
Is always

advancement am

been of

a high

I his work
order. Al-

he virtually guards the interests of the institution and

though he has attained a position which would be

guides

its policies.

Conservative

yet progressive, he

credit to any man

twice his age and he could rest con-

has been instrumental in

ness of the

organization

of stability and solidity

greatly extending the busi-
and its present reputation

largely due

to his

efforts.

tented in the fulfil

be predicted that
carry him to man

Iment of his duties, it may safely
his force and aggressiveness will

y more conquests

equally honorable

He recognizes
safeguards the

that the bank which most carefully

interests

of its depositors

is the

one

and worthy, which hold forth

his industry,

common

sense

additional rewards

and intelligence.

patronage

and regards no detail too

lortant to assure it of his close attention. The
of which he is not only cashier but also a director

and one of its
deposits in excess

prosperous

speaks

For thirty years actively engaged in the profession
of dentistry in Key West, Dr. Kemp occupies a fore-

vailing in
his active

Hastings.
ties to ot

Mr. Case, however, has extended
er fields and acts as representa-
le Life Insurance Company of

most position in that line
is evident from the fact I

on several

in the city and his standing

occasions to serve as executive of important

'the business

company

having

state associations along professional

However,

efforts; He is also he has not confined his

Agnes Bruce

son of William Ham-

same county and there the father

received

of his will, his ability,

politically and socially prominent in

Greensboro, that
ih origin, coming

Case is the oldes

a family of

North Carolina, attending the common

William, Jr.

Mr. Case

councils of that party.
ment inaugurated for t
velopment of the city's

Always foremost in any move-

resources or the betterment of

Exchange

w months only, being called

he has come into
At all. times he

and confidence

by laudable ambition and, while he

1912,

greatly increased

FLORIDA

been distinctly successful
has been prominent in frat

in educational affairs and

circles

and ever been

to give his support to benevolent causes.

present serves with great

distinction as president

Key West city council, doing

promoting

measures

valuable work in

which will be of lasting benefit

and contribute toward the further growth of the city.

Here he was

born on March I,

liam Kemp, a native

Harbor

a son of Wil-

island, one of the

Dr. Kemp h
in educational

has ever taken an active part and

matters

and for twenty

ficially connected with the public-school

years

of education,

ten years
cation in

been a member

years

interest
was of-

system,

of the county board

and for a similar period following this
eld the office of superintendent of edu-

in Monroe county.

president of the

Key West city

at present
council,

serves

a position

which he has held for five consecutive years with credit

Bahamas.
In his ea
captain,
Key Wes

The father

was born

on January

i3, 1813.

earlier life he was a seafaring man and

and during this

West

a sea

pursuit became a resident of

in 1831, where later for many years he was

successfully engaged in the mercantile business.

to himself and

munity.
tee of the

conferring

Dr. Kemp

a benefit upon the

is a member,

steward

First Methodist Episcopal church,

and for many years has been superintendent of its

bath school.

com-
1 trus-
South,
Sab-

is prominent in fraternal circles, be-

died on December 19,

1882, deeply mourned by a

a past noble grand and past grand patriarch in

circle

of friends, and is buried in the Key West ceme-

tery. The mother of Dr. Kemp

was Amelia Lowe,

family

of this city

before her marriage

a member of the well known Lowe

and also a native of

having been born on Green

also deceased,

having

Turtle

survived

the Bahamas,
She is now

her husband

the Odd Fellows and also

of the World, in

a member

of the

which organization he has

office of clerk in the local camp for

sixteen

tive years. Along professional lines he
of the Southern Dental Society. His i

Woodmen

held the
consecu-

is a member

His interest in chil-

a dren has not only been manifest in his kindness toward

number

of years.

To them was b

of whom but two are now living,

Kemp being Walter J

ames,

The home of Dr. Kemp

the date

of his birth and

a jeweler
has been in

orn a large family
the brother of Dr.
er of this city.

in Key

here he attended

West since
private and

those whom he educated in his family but he

a director of the Children's Home

sonville and
of bettering

phaned children.

Society

ie is also
of Jack-

as such very much interested in the work
the conditions of unfortunate and or-

As shadowed forth between the

public schools,

1877 a
school's

and being

graduating
one of the

first graduating class.

from the high school in

two members

of the high

He subsequently

the life

work of Dr.

Kemp has been many-sided

and to whatever line he has turned his attention it

evident that he has attained

results.

is also

pleted a commercial course in Moore's

ness College

Southern

of Atlanta and then entered upon the

dent that he has nothing of the

dizement for he

has ever given his best

of self-aggran-
services for

study of dentistry and in
Pennsylvania College of

Since

the date of his

he has been

1883 graduated from the

Dental Surgery
s graduation,

actively engaged

at Philadel-

years

in the practice

the public's sake, and only for the public's

he therefore
natural and,

greatest

enjoys

the highest esteem and

as it should

reward

and in that

and the respect

respect

esteem I
receives

his profession

in his home

and has been increas-

truly his

greatest

success.

ingly successful, being
foremost members of

state. He combines

now considered as one of the

the dental fraternity

a deep knowledge of

of the

the scien-

tific principles underlying dentistry with a

mechan-

CHARLES RICHARDSON PIERCE.

ical skill and touch which

reputation and

secured

representative citizens.

Florida St
the Florida

State Dental
ida State Bo

still a member of
The marriage

has made

him the
He i
Society a

Board of Dental

made for him a great
patronage of the most

is ex-president

of the

and an ex-president of

Examiners

and is

that board.

of Dr. Kemp

occurred

in Key

on May 7, 1885, when he wedded Miss Mary A.

man,

a native

of Key

West

and a daughter of John

H. Coleman, formerly a well known

they have taken care

citizen of this

of several who

Among the
native sons i

the sp
today
he has

sponge

most able and successful of

is Charles Richardson

West's

Pierce, a pioneer in

industry in this section of the

one of its leading rep
been for many years

who are active
ment and in

representatives.

state and
Moreover,

prominent among those

in shaping the city's political develop-

various

positions

of responsibility, trust

and honor has accomplished effective and far-reaching

work, influencing to a

great extent municipal progress

along many lines.
Mr. Pierce was born in Key West, on the 22d
July, 1855, and is a son of Lewis Edward and Sarah

Pierce,

natives

of Nassau,

he held the

joc-w

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FLORIDA

where at first he followed the ship carpenter's trade,
later becoming a merchant and a sponge dealer, build-
ing up a large and important enterprise along the lat-
ter line. He passed away in 1874 and was survived
by his wife until 1893. Among their children are:
Charles R., of this review; Mrs. Lydia E. Moss; Mrs.
Cornelia M. Allen; and Mrs. Annie B. Brown, all of
Key West.
Charles Richardson Pierce was reared in his par-
ent's home, securing his primary education in private
schools in his native city. He afterwards attended
Emory College at Oxford, Georgia, and had reached
the senior class when the death of his father made it
necessary for him to give up his studies and to return
home in order to take charge of the latter's extensive
sponge interests. He was then but a boy of nineteen,
but he ably took charge of all of his father's affairs,
settled the estate and succeeded to the sponge business,
which was already an important and profitable concern.
In his work as administrator he displayed the initiative
spirit and the excellent organizing and executive power
which have dominated his entire business career, bring-
ing him to a position among the leaders in the indus-
trial life of his city. He today controls large sponge
interests and is one of the most extensive dealers in
Key West, his success in the conduct of his enterprise
coming as a result of a thorough and exhaustive knowl-
edge of the business, his straightforward and honor-
able dealings and his strict adherence to progressive
and modern business methods. He is now having
constructed a large steam launch of one hundred tons
capacity, which when completed will be named the
Mascotte and which he intends to keep for general
wrecking and cable repair use.
Although Mr. Pierce is a resourceful, capable and
successful business man, it is not alone along business
lines that he has done splendid work for his native
city, for he has been for many years one of the great-
est individual forces in local politics, holding several
important official positions, in all of which he has ren-
dered faithful and honorable service. For several
years he has been a member of the board of education
and this is his second period of identification with edu-
cational interests, to the promotion of which he has
given a great deal of his time and attention. He served
for four years as a member of the board of aldermen
and almost continuously since the date of its organiza-
tion has been a member of the Key West board of pub-
lic works. As such, on the xIth of December, 1912,
he had the pleasure of laying the first brick in the
city's new system of street paving, upon the completion
of which all of the city's streets will be covered with
a good standard pavement.
On the 29th of June, i88t, Mr. Pierce was united
in marriage to Miss Annie Elizabeth Lowe, a native
VoL tn-

of Key West and a daughter of Samuel S. Lowe and
niece of John Lowe, Jr., of this city. Mr. and Mrs.
Pierce have three sons. Cleveland Reuel, aged thirty-
one, is a lawyer in Key West. Emory Lowe, aged
twenty-seven, is a graduate of the Georgia School of
Technology and at present is serving as city engineer
and street commissioner of Key West. He is engaged
in the hardware business in this city in partnership
with his brother Lewis Edward, aged twenty and the
youngest son in this family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R.
Pierce have one grandchild, Emory Lowe Pierce, Jr.,
born May I, 1913, a son of their second son. Mr.
Pierce is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
church of Key West and fraternally is identified with
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the
Masonic order. He was formerly vice president of
the Island City National Bank and is now a director.
He belongs to the Key West Chamber of Commerce,
being actively interested in the growth of the city and
in the advancement of its commercial interests. He
is a splendid type of the present-day American citizen,
zealous in promoting his own interests but always
eager to make them forces in general progress; ambi-
tious for political preferment but only as an avenue to
public service, and at all times honorable and upright
in his personal, political and business standards, while
at the same time businesslike, practical and enterpris-
ing in the methods by which he seeks success.

WILLIAM PRUDENT SMITH.

William Pruden Smith, who during the fifteen years
of his connection with the legal profession has made
steady and creditable progress, establishing himself
in an enviable position in the regard of the general
public by reason of his personal worth and his ability
in his chosen calling, is now a resident of Miami, con-
nected with the bar of Dade county as a member of the
firm of Shutts, Smith & Bowen. He was born in
Dalton, Georgia, March 4, I876, and is a son of Hon.
John Lee Smith, a resident of Cleveland, Tennessee.
John Lee Smith is recognized as an able and forceful
lawyer, as was his father also, the latter having been
Hon. Samuel Axley Smith, of Cleveland, who repre-
sented the third Tennessee district in congress for
many years prior to the-Civil war. Upon the outbreak
of hostilities he enlisted as a private in the army of
the Confederacy and served for four years, meeting
death in battle in North Carolina near the close of the
war. The mother of the subject of this review was
before her marriage Miss Rosa Pruden, a native of
Cuthbert, Georgia, and a daughter of William H. Pru-
den. Her father served during the Civil war as lieu-

tenant colonel of the

Thirty-second Georgia Regiment,

to make him a valued

and representative citizen.

Confederate

army,

having

moved

to that state from

Milford, Connecticut, with his parents when he was

was born in New
and he began his

for Sargent

Haven county,

independent career

& Company,

hardware

Connecticut,

in 1852

r as an office boy
manufacturers in

William

Pruden

Smith was

reared

Tennessee, and after completing tl
course entered the State University,

was graduated
was connected

in 1898.

one year

in Charleston,
e public-school
from which he

thereafter

South-

New Haven.

a natural

mechanic,

turned his attention

learning

pattern

making

expert workman
a position with 1

and becoming a sk
line. He afterward

Anson

ne soon
business,

accepted
ia, Con-

ern Railway, located

in Washington,

D. C.,

necticut, and there remained

for eleven

years,

1goo came to Florida, settling in Jacksonville, where

ing the

business in principle

he engaged in the general practice

years,

first as a partner of W.

of law for twelve

B. Owen

and later

practically everything
machine work. With

connected w
this excellent

training

a member
January, I

of the firm of Kay, Doggett
312, he removed to Miami an

& Smith.

id became one

to Orlando

Sperry

association

organized

the South Florida

with E. F.

Foundry

& Ma-

of the organizers

of the firm of Shutts,

Bowen, now one of the strongest and

Smith

most prominent

chine Company
of fifteen thous

incorporated

original

name.

law firms

in southern

nized as a strong

Mr. Smith

and able practitioner,

of legal principles

is comprehensive

Is recog-

whose knowl-
ive and exact

enterprise

organized
Works, its

as the South

present

B9I, wnen a was re-
Foundry & Machine
hnson is president of

and whose
logical. Hi

application

of them always correct and
lentified with much successful

the concern and

Three

years

E. F. Sperry secret
I Mr. Witchendahl

tary and tre
purchased

iasurer.
an in-

litigation
his mark
occupies
On the

still a young

in professional circles
a high and honored pi;

1903,

M

man, has

of the city,

made

terest in the business and has made an excellent record

where

ace.
r. Smith married Miss

period

association

Foundry

a well managed

concern.

& Machine

Works

business enterprise in every particular

May Garner, a daughter of
ner, of Jacksonville, Florid

Captain

Charles

E. Gar-

have two

and since its organization in

growth.

Its facilities

a steady

have been gradually enlarged,

dren:

Katherine

Pruden, Jr.,

aged fi

Rosalyn,
ive. Mr.

the buildings twice remodeled and other improvements

is a member

now covering

about three acres

the Yacht

of Jacksonville and belongs to the
Dade Clubs in Miami. Fraternally

Benevolent Protective Order

a member of the
professional lines

Nobles

e Country C
Tarpon and

he is connected
of Elks and the

workmen.

affording employment to thirty high-class
In years past, when iron was used more

extensively than steel for the same purposes,

company

he is a Knight Templar
of the Mystic Shrine. A

is connected

Miami

a great deal of work for the railroads of
hey have also made, put up and repaired
phosphate machinery used in central and

having

constructed

most

State Bar Associations.

iron stairways

in use in the large

position

in the ranks of

the legal

frater-

buildings.

One of the

most recent

nity in this part of the state and in
social circles alike has won a host of

professional and
warm friends.

and important of

contracts

was the installation

of nine flights of metal stairway in the new high school

at Tampa, the Hills
the St. Augustine high

county

school.

courthouse

In fact, no other Flor-

ida foundry has yet been able to turn out this class

CHARLES

EZEKIEL

JOHNSON.

of work as cheaply or as

At the present

they have three

important

contracts

of the same

Orlando numbers

among

its most progressive,

under

way. The general castings now made are prin-

sighted and enterprising
iel Johnson, president of
& Machine Works, and',

business men Charles Ezek-

the South

Foundry

since its organization one

cipally for architectural
machinery. The territory

sonville to Fort Myers.

purposes and
covered reaches

Situated on both, the Atlantic

the leading factors in

its steady growth and expansion.

Coast Line and

the Seaboard

Railroad

tracks,

residents

in the

and in

company enjoys unexcelled facilities for transportation,
being in immediate touch with all parts of the state.

came

Seminole Club and

time

C

I[

FLO

RIDA

brated Foos
This branch

worked up to large
to come. A special
gating equipment, wh

proportions during
y is being made of t

rich

is the

the months

he Foos

irri-

Nebraska, and began his education in the public schools

it in the

high school at
After laying

aside his books he engaged in merchandising for some

determined

to study

Accordingly,

running thing of its

kind ever invented.

Farmers and

he entered the law department of the University

trucker:
plants,
trebles

are beginning to find the vast utility of these

and in

regions

where

crop' returns, as in

and surrounding counties,

irrigation

many
. magic

priced rain-producers are worth their!

-even i
amount.
installed
fact, all

f they cost

but an infinitesimal

doubles and

parts of Orange
and moderately
r weight in gold

fraction

of that

Mr. Johnson and his associates have recently

in their factory a new engine

of the

equipment

is thoroughly

lathe and,
modern a

Florida and was graduated in

was admitted

pointed clerk
ficient and c
he resigned.

general

practice

of law

his knowledge and ability proving an excellent
way to a lucrative patronage. He is a member 4

Florida

State Bar Association

and is connected with

in the s
he was

and served in

1913,

his attention to the

up-to-date in every particular.
the South Florida Foundry &

His association with

Machine

not, however, limit the extent of Mr.

ness interests,

for he is

vice president

Works

Johnson's busi-
of the People's

business interests of this city as

president

Southern Florida Lumber Company. He
dent of the Osceola Journal Publishing

weekly

paper,

secretary

of the

So

of the

is also presi-
Company, a
uthern Utili-

National Bank
lando, Sanford

sonia,
Marcia,

to Orlando Mr.

and one of the organizers of the

& Kissimmee

Electric
Julia A.

and they

Welton

and Dorothy.

Since coming

Johnson has been actively interested in

the progress and advancement of the community and

Or-

Railroad.
Pratt, of

ties Companies.

On the 3oth

of September,

, 1912, Mr.
Adalene F.

Johnston was
Donegan, of

circles

and they

Mr. Johnston is a member of the Knights
To his many friends in this city he is

"Pat"

and he has made the name

united in marriage to Miss

Kissimmee,
of the city.
of Pythias.

familiarly known as

identified with the work

ment. He served as

a member

of the city council

two years, his term covering a critical
city's history, embracing as it did the

freeze

when

period
years

all business

in the
of the

was prac-

paralyzed.

Mr. Johnson voted

struction of clay roads in the town

for the con-

CHARLES

and also aided in

bers of the city council in

and is very popular in the

so long resided, his genial and social

salaries

for the

mem-

order

,ht be used for the general good
He has been identified with a

corporate and business

city where he has

interests,

Dr. Charles

county, Ohio,
and Jane Ann
of Connecticut

parents were married

Andrew

favorably known in Hastings as

of the com-
great many

growth c
Orlando,

geon,

having

located

in 1904,

their mention on account of

service
where

physician

but deserves

distinguished

military

the Civil war,

side of his brothers

conspicuous gallantry.

in Burlington,
. and is a son

Lattin,

and the mother of

Lawrence
of Charles

the father a native

New York.

in Dutchess county, New

and subsequently removed to Ohio, whence the
ceeded to Virginia, in which state both passed

In his younger days

trade

the father

while a resident

was a carpenter by
of Virginia, served

One of
sentatives
Johnston,

profession

the most successful of the

Kissimmee bai

known by everybody

in this city.

younger

is Rober
as "Pat"

repre-

t George
Johnston,

1911 has been practicing his

as county surveyor in Cabell
The parents were prominent i

they
highly
acter.
garet

Thompson,

deceased ;

and Lincoln counties.
in the districts where

them
I char-
Mar-
C., of

gas engines throughout this territory.
of the business will undoubtedly be

lightest and smoothest-

of that section, completing

Kissimmee, where he located in

time but later

1911 and

to the bar. In

of

of the circuit court

capable way until January I,

He has again turned

and has won rapid success,

Mr. Johnson married Miss

Connecticut,

Harold,

have four children:

closely

are well known in social

a synonym for professional ability,
nation and high personal integrity.

passage

business

a bill abolishing

saved

munity.

discrim-

ANDREW

has directly
his excellent

affected the growth of

fluenced
member

general

business and executive ability

development.

of the Hoo-Hoos

disposition
ing drawn

Fraternally he is a

rendered

he fought on the

during

and his sterling qualities
to him many friends.

of character

was born

"PAT"

who since his admission in

He was born in Howard county,

lived and all who knew them esteemed

for their substantial qualities of mind an
In "their family were three children:

_

.

t

FLORIDA

Hamlin,
review.

West

Dr. Lattin

Virginia ;

was a boy o

and Charles

Andrew,

two or three

years

of this

when

he inspires

kindly
sional

in his fellowmen, who

qualities

attainments

of mind and

esteem

character,

him for his
his profes-

and his self-sacrificing

public

the parents moved to Vir
Cabell county, that state,

ginia

and

acquiring

ie was reared
his education

the subscription

7, 1862,

schools

he enlisted

Virginia Cavalry, under

of those early

in Company

Captain

James H.

On Oc-
Sixteenth
Nounnan,

ALEXANDER

RAY.

remaining in active service until the close

was taken

prisoner November

12, 1864,

of the war.

at Cedar

Jacksonville has been signally
men who have occupied her

favored in the class
public positions, for

Grove,

and was interned in the military

prison

on the whole they have been loyal to duty and

consci-

Point Lookout, Maryland,

until his release June 28,

entious in meeting

every

obligation

that has devolved

During

the longer

period

of his service he

upon them.

Of this

class of public officials

is Alex-

held the rank of sergeant.

war he was employed fo
riage maker, but leaning
research work, he decid

Subsequent

r four

or five

to the Civil
years as car-

strongly toward study
d upon a professional

reer, and, studying medicine, graduated in
the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati,

search
began

for an
active

selected

practice

at Federal

Point,

ander Ray, now city treasurer.

New York,

Jacob and

Aug

Margaret

He was born in Water-

rust 30, 1854,
(Auchter) R

native of the Empire st
Both died in New York

Alexander

became

his parents being
ly, the former a
hitter of Germany.
I they removed in

tailor's
a years

trade.
when the

residents

county, this

state, remaining there

schools

came to Hastings, perceiving

service

education by pur
Stratton Business

suing a
College.

course

in Bryant

He started

and conscientious

performance

profes-

own account

sional

duties,

successfully

he has demonstrated

cope with the

ravages

of sickness and

ease and as his reputation has grown his practice has

increased.

Beside

attending to his extensive clientage

and has since been dependent upon
so that whatever success has come
result of his earnest labors. He ha
in the early mornings and during;

i nis own resources,
to him is the direct
d a newspaper route

he also conducts

modern

a drug store,

which is up-to-date

in all its departments, the prescription counter

married

vannah

F. Bickel, a native

June 30, 1874,

of Ohio,

Miss Sa-

and of this mar-

riage was born one daughter, Florence Maude,

wife of N. T. San
whom she has two

in October,

1888, in

ford, of Coalinga, California, by

Mrs. Lattin
and on June

passed a
20, 1890,

office boy
goods. Th
indicated in
until 1875,
In 1877

in a house
iat he was

remained

the business went out of

Mr. Ray came to

orange business a
in Putnam county.

until 1891,

entered

into business

nd settled

existence.

Florida to engage in the
on Fruitland peninsula

There he engaged in

orange grow-

when he came

connection

Doctor was united

in marriage to

Mrs. D. C. Guthrie,

who passed away in July, 1894.
Although Dr. Lattin gives the most of his

atten-

Tampa and Key
Line. He was

West Railway, now the Atlantic Coast
afterward with the Florida Fruit Ex-

change until the memorable freeze of

1894-95.

tion to I
his time

'is

extensive

professional

work and employs

largely to perfect his knowledge

and experin-

ness, in which

his attention to the retail grocery busi-
he continued until 1899. On the ist

ence by reading

latest

broadly and comprehensively of the

achievements and

discoveries in the world

of January of that year he entered
office as chief clerk under A. M.

the city treasurer's
Ives and held the

medical science, he has found time to devote to pub-

lic office,

having

served for two

years as the

position for ten years.
treasurer for a longer

Mr. Ives not wishing

period,

Mr. Ray

to act as

then became

treasurer

the Episcopal chu
with the Masonic

his comrades in
his membership

of Hastings.

His religion

and he has fraterna

order.

He keeps

I arms of days long
in R. E. Lee Camp,

is that of
1 relations

in contact

58, U. C.

candidate for the office and has three times been elected

opposition.
I? It is an

gard entertained for him by the people, who
his ability and integrity as a city official. He

can be

recognize

record of Dr. Lattin re-

pounds

to his credit

and honor

rich reward in the confidence

has found

regard

tinue in the office until June, I915, and the consensus
of public opinion seems to be that he will be the choice
of the people for a fourth term. He never forgets

years

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