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Mar 9, 2020 · He was not only engaged in many business ventures but was well known in the politics of the county – serving as a councilman in June 1913 when Bunnell was incorporated and elected president by the council; he served as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Flagler County from Dec 1918 until Jan 1921; as Tax Assessor for a term; and as a County Commissioner from 1929 to 1939, two terms of ...
Flagler and Rockefeller had met years earlier in Bellevue, Ohio, when Rockefeller was buying grain for his commission house and Flagler was a grain merchant. ... He founded the General Education ...
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Jan 13, 2020 · Flagler was able to secure $100,000 from a relative on the condition that said relative be made a partner in the new company of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler with a 25% share ownership. The Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler partnership was organized on January 10, 1870 as a joint-stock corporation named Standard Oil.
Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire.
Mar 29, 2023 · Connecting Florida: Early Florida East Coast Railway History with Seth H. Bramson. March 29, 2023. March 29, 2023. MDC Koubek Memorial Center. 2705 SW 3rd Street, Miami.
When Flagler first visited Florida in 1878, he recognized the state’s potential for growth but noticed a lack of quality accommodations. Flagler returned to Florida in 1885 with an eye toward developing the area around St. Augustine and began building a grand hotel, the Hotel Ponce de Leon. He realized that the key to developing Florida
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Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the ambitious Gilded Age tycoon who designed and built much of Florida's fashionable east coast, rode to success on the rails. As John D. Rockefeller's closest adviser in the 1870s, Flagler helped assemble the Standard Oil empire. In this thoroughly researched biography, Akin shows that Flagler understood early in ...
