where they had been residing, and took up their permanent home at Tampa. It was in the excellent schools of Tampa that young Irsch gained a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of an education, he here completing the studies begun in New York City. He completed the highschool course, and then, with the confidence and determination of youth, went into business for himself, in 1916, and in spite of the depression in business during the war period, has succeeded beyond the most hopeful expectations. He is agent in his district for the Cadillac cars and his volume of business shows a big increase annually.

On June 27, 1912, Mr. Irsch was united in marriage with Ellen R. Allen, a daughter of W. G. Allen, of Tampa, and they have two children, namely: Ellen and Mary L. Mr. Irsch is a democrat, and loyal to party affiliations. One of the active men of his city, Mr. Irsch is always to be found in the front ranks of progress, and was one of the prime movers in effecting the organization of the auto dealers into their present association, and is now serving it as president. A great booster for "Greater Tampa," Mr. Irsch is one who does something more than enthuse, he works, and makes others do likewise, and the results are to be seen in many directions. He believes in the future of this part of Florida, and is willing to do everything within his power to further advance its interests, to develop its natural resources, and to add to its improvements.

STAFFORD CALDWELL has made for himself secure vantage ground as one of the able and representative members of the bar of his native state, and he is now a prominent figure in the executive affairs of the law department of the great Flagler system in Florida, his office being that of general attorney.

Mr. Caldwell was born at Jasper, Hamilton County, Florida, on the 13th of October, 1887, and is a son of Madison and Mary Jennie (Goolsby) Caldwell, the former of whom was born at Madison, Madison County, this state, November 21, 1846, and the latter of whom was born and reared in Hamilton County. Of the family of twelve children four died in infancy, and all of the others are still living with the exception of Frank Chandoin, who died at the age of thirty-six years, the subject of this sketch having been the eleventh in order of birth.

The public schools of his native county afforded Mr. Caldwell his early education, and in 1909 he graduated from the law department of historic old Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, also being awarded while there the Washington Society Medal for Oratory. In the practice of his profession Mr. Caldwell became junior member of the law firm of Horne & Caldwell at Jasper. judicial center of Hamilton County, and this alliance continued until his partner, Mallory F. Horne, was elected to the bench of the Circuit Court of the Third Judicial Circuit. In 1912 Mr. Caldwell was made the democratic nominee for the office of states attorney of the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida, and was accordingly appointed to this office in 1913 by the governor of the state. He was renominated in 1916, with incidental reappointment in the following year by Governor Catts, and he retained the office until February 1, 1921, when he resigned and accepted that of assistant general solicitor for the Florida East Coast Railway and other Flagler interests. On the 1st of the following October he was advanced to the post of gen

eral attorney for the Flagler interests, the important office of which he is now the incumbent.

In Orient Lodge No. 70, F. and A. M., at Jasper, Mr. Caldwell was raised to the degree of Master Mason, later he was dimitted by this lodge and became affiliated with Barrett Lodge No. 43, at Live Oak, of which he is a past master, and finally he received the dimit that was followed by his affiliation with Temple Lodge No. 23 at Jacksonville. He is a past grand orator of the Masonic grand lodge of Florida, and at the time of this writing, in 1922, he is grand master of the Second Veil in the Florida Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, his basic capitular affiliation being with Live Oak Chapter No. 25. He is affiliated also with Live Oak Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar, and with Morocco Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Jacksonville.

At Macon, Georgia, on the 25th of August, 1915, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Caldwell and Miss Tempie Marie Davis, a native of Conyers, Georgia, and the one child of this union is a daughter, Mary Louise.

J. W. SPIVEY. On the role of pioneers of Dade County the name J. W. Spivey occupies a deservedly prominent place. He came here before the railroad reached Miami, and helped develop during periods of adversity and has been a leader in permanent development work in recent years in the communities of Little River and Lemon City. At one time he was one of the principal growers of citrus fruit and vegetables. He is now president of the Bank of

Little River.

Mr. Spivey was born in Nancemond County, Virginia, in 1867. He was reared on a farm, and as a young man left Virginia and went to the Pacific Coast. For some years he was connected with farming and cattle ranching in California and Arizona. Beginning as a common hand, he was promoted to ranch foreman.

It was in 1895 that he came to Dade County in South Florida. It was in 1896 that the Florida East Coast Railway reached Miami. He was therefore a pioneer in a wilderness country. The first building on the bay at Lemon City was erected by him. The lumber was brought on the schooner Phoenix, Captain Beard, from Jacksonville, and there being no dock the lumber was dumped in the bay and floated to the land, and then carried to the place where the building was erected. It was a two-story structure, the first floor being used as a store by Mr. Spivey, while he lived in the upper story. This mercantile business was continued there for nearly four years. Mr. Spivey in 1898 bought land about three miles north, at what is now Little River. Here he started an orange grove, and occupied the first house that was built on the west side of the railroad. A little later he undertook the development of a truck farm on a portion of the land. For years he was accounted one of the largest and most successful truck farmers in that section. In later years truck farming was discontinued, though he still maintains a citrus grove, known as Eureka Grove, one of the highly developed and attractive places in that locality. What was formerly his truck farm, extending from the Dixie Highway on the west to Little River on the east, with a frontage of 335 feet on Dixie Highway, subdivided into residence lots, is known as Spivey's subdivision and is being improved with wide and modern streets and a community park on Little

River for the benefit of the home owners of the subdivision. This constitutes one of the most desirable and attractive residential sections of the Little River in Miami region. Central Avenue, running west from Dixie Highway to Little River, lies between this subdivision and Eureka Grove. The entire property, embracing eighteen acres, is in the rapidly-growing town of Little River. He also owns valuable business property in the business center of the town fronting both on Dixie Highway and Everglade Avenue. Another property owned by him is twenty-five acres in the west part of the town and on Everglade Avenue. Mr. Spivey is also a property owner at Lemon City. His real estate possessions all told in the region north of Miami and adjacent to the great Dixie Highway approximate a very substantial fortune. Of this good fortune he is strictly deserving, since he refused to lose faith in years of occasional adversity, and through his individual effort has contributed to some of the permanent developments that makes this locality prosperous beyond any possible event of the future.

Mr. Spivey was one of the organizers and became president of the first bank of the town, the Bank of Little River, which began business in October, 1922. The bank home is a building at the corner of Dixie Highway and Everglade Avenue.

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Mr. Spivey married Miss Annie Matthews, of Chicago. Their three sons are Barney, Cecil and Ollie.

GOOLD TAYLOR BUTLER. It is difficult for an outsider to appreciate the work accomplished by one of those men who are essentially an outcome of twentieth century progressiveness, the civil engineers; for the public generally has no realization of the importance of the work of those who labor for the service of mankind in this special direction. No man can enter upon this important field of endeavor without a careful and complete preparation if he expects to succeed. The history of St. Augustine's achievements as to engineering shows that this city has been the home of several master minds of the profession, among whom one who takes important rank is Goold Taylor Butler.

Mr. Butler was born at Tarrytown, New York, June 22, 1857, a son of John and Sarah A. (Wilson) Butler. His grandparents on his mother's side were John and Sarah A. Wilson, who came from Edinburg, Scotland, and located at New York City at an early date. On the paternal side his great-great-grandfather was Gen. Lewis Butler, of Gen. George Washington's army, which entitles Mr. Butler to membership in the Order of the Cincinnati and the Sons of the American Revolution. John Butler was born in New York City, in 1816, and was one of the prominent railroad men of his day, being one of the organizers of the Belt Railway of New York City, of which he was president up to the time of his death, owning fifty-three per cent of the road's stock. During the Civil war he was special commissioner from the United States to South America, and included among his intimate friends President Lincoln, General Grant and Thurlow Weed, the noted American journalist. Mr. Butler was also port warden of the port of New York for a number of years and a prominent and influential republican of his day. He died in 1868, at the age of fifty-two years. Mrs. Butler was born in Greenwich Village, now a part of New York City, in 1821, and died in 1870. She and her hus

band were the parents of two sons and two daughters, of whom three children are living.

The youngest of his parents' children, Goold Taylor Butler, received his early training in public and private schools of New York, and was then sent to the Pennsylvania Military Academy, now Pennsylvania Military College. He then pursued a course in civil engineering at Segler's Academy, from which he was graduated in 1876. Prior to this, in 1872, he had visited Florida for a short stay, and in 1878 returned to this state, which has since been his home. He has carried on his profession without interruption, but at times has also engaged in orange growing, sawmilling and the lumber business at Jacksonville up to 1898. Mr. Butler surveyed the old Green Cove Springs & Melrose Railway in 1881, and was the assistant engineer in building a part of the Jacksonville & Tampa Key West Railway, now included in the Atlantic Coast Line system. He also was identified with the Atlantic & Western Railway and the Atlantic Coast & Indian River Railway, now included in the Flagler system. On February 6, 1898, he was engaged by Mr. Flagler as chief engineer of the Florida East Coast Hotel System, and retained that position until 1912, when he resigned and opened an office at St. Augustine for the general practice of his profession. Since then he has been county engineer for St. Johns County for four years, and at this time is chief engineer in the building of the city sewers of St. Augustine. He is likewise consulting engineer of E. L. Barnett, Inc., of New York City, and vice president of the Fountain of Youth Hotel Company, capitalized at $15,000,000. Mr. Butler is a member of the American Association of Engineers and the Florida Engineering Society. In politics he maintains an independent attitude. His fraternal, social and civic connections are numerous.

On July 22, 1885, Mr. Butler married Miss Hattie E. Rewey, who was born in Utica, New York, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Mary Rewey. Mrs. Butler is a direct descendant of Capt. Zacharia Townsend, who commanded one of Commodore Perry's battleships at the Battle of Lake Erie, and she and her daughter are members of the Society of Colonial Dames and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

ROBERT S. GARNETT, M. D. In the twenty years since he graduated from Medical College Doctor Garnett has won many distinctions in his profession. He is regarded as a most scholarly man of medicine, and a leader who has always sought the best interests of the profession both as an individual and as an officer in medical organizations and institutions.

His father, Doctor R. B. Garnett, who in his eighty-fourth year, is one of the most vigorous and thoroughly allied citizens of Saint Augustine, which has been his home for over forty years. Doctor R. B. Garnett practiced medicine for a few years after coming to Florida, but has given the greater part of his time to various constructive developments in and around St. Augustine. He was born at Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, May 7, 1838, son of John and Eliza (Brookie) Garnett, natives of Kentucky, who established their home in Missouri about 1830. John Garnett in 1856 established the mercantile business of John Garnett & Company at St. Louis, and was actively connected with it until 1862, when he died.

R. B. Garnett was twenty-four years of age