is a fine place fronting on Rhodes Avenue and extending back 600 feet to the Tigertail Trail. Mr. Swanson married Miss Constance Evans, of South Carolina.

LEON HERBERT MARTIN, M. D. A Florida physician whose abilities have gained him special recognition in the field of surgery, Doctor Martin served with the rank of major in the Medical Corps during the World war, and won distinction while with the Expeditionary Forces in France.

Doctor Martin, whose home is at Miami, was born in 1889, and acquired a liberal general and professional education. He graduated M. D. from the Barnes Medical College of St. Louis in 1910, was an interne in the Barnes Hospital, and in 1911 began practice at Melbourne in Brevard County, Florida. Doctor Martin remained in active practice at Melbourne until the spring of 1917. He was one of the early volunteers from Florida for the army medical service. He entered the Army Medical School in Washington, began duty in the Medical Corps with the rank of first lieutenant, subsequently was promoted to captain, and on February 25, 1919, received his promotion to the rank of major. He went overseas in the spring of 1918 as regimental surgeon of the Three Hundred Fourteenth Infantry, Seventy-ninth Division. Doctor Martin was assigned to duty at several of the base hospitals in France.

His distinctive service, and the source of the citation given him signed by General John J. Pershing, is recorded in the words of the citation as follows: "For distinguished and exceptional gallantry in evacuating the wounded under shell fire at Nantillois, September 29, 1918, in the operations of the American Expeditionary Forces." This citation was awarded under date of March 27, 1919. He continued on duty in Europe for some time after the armistice, and after returning to America was assigned to surgical duty with Base Hospital No. 6, at Fort McPherson, Georgia. Major Martin was discharged there July 28, 1919.

Soon after returning to Florida he located permanently at Miami, and for three years has enjoyed a fine practice in that city. While at Melbourne he began specializing in surgery, and with his added war experience he has devoted more and more of his time to this work, including orthopedic surgery. Doctor Martin is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations. He has his office and residence at 553 West Flagler Street, Miami. Locally he is a member of Melbourne Lodge No. 143, F. and A. M., of Melbourne, Florida.

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ROBERT FISK HEAP. In the brief period since he came to Miami in 1915 Robert F. Heap has achieved a remarkable success in building up and developing the Miami Roofing Company, of which he is president, one of the largest concerns of its kind in Southern Florida.

Mr. Heap has had a most unusual variety of personal and business experience in the course of his long career. He was born at Olney in Richland County, Illinois, in 1858, son of George W. and Elizabeth (Fisk) Heap. The grandparents of each of his parents were represented by military service in the Revolutionary war. The Fisk and Heap families came from England, and the genealogy of the Heaps is traced back for eight or nine hundred years. The maternal grandfather of the Miami business man Robert Fisk and the paternal grandfather, George W. Heap, Sr.

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The father of George W. Heap, Jr., migrated from Wheeling, in what is now West Virginia, in 1832 to Illinois, where he exercised his trade as a millwright in becoming a pioneer builder of grist mills. He located in Richland County, and though his main business in later years was farming, he lived for a time and conducted a grist mill at Olney, the county seat. He was a great believer in education, and donated the land and building for one of the first schools in Richland County.

Owing to the early death of his parents, Robert Fisk Heap left home and school when only thirteen years of age, and from that time his earnest efforts and determined will were the principal factors in achieving a successful destiny. From Northern Illinois he went out to Kansas and located at Arkansas City, then a noted frontier town on the border of old Indian Territory, a town that was the rendezvous for many expeditions over into the Indian country. He became a merchant at Arkansas City, and for some time he sold goods by wagon and freight teams in no man's land and other sections of the present State of Oklahoma. He knew many of the prominent frontier characters, and his own experiences brought him in close touch with the border conditions of the Southwest.

After his experience as a merchant Mr. Heap became associated with the Santa Fe Railway in acquiring right-of-way for the building of that system through Southwestern Kansas and through Oklahoma. He remained with the Santa Fe as right-of-way man for about five years, and held a similar position with the Rock Ísland for about one year. His skill in procuring rights of way and working out other details preliminary to actual railroad construction led to his being selected by the promoters of the projected electric line of railway from Chicago to New York, known as the Chicago-New York Air Line. He handled many of the right of way matters for this proposition, securing the right of way from Chicago through La Porte and Gary to South Bend, Indiana. This ambitious project fell through after the road was constructed only to LaPorte. Following that Mr. Heap engaged in other lines of business, and in September, 1915, he came to Miami.

It was in May, 1918, that he took over the business of the Miami Roofing Company. Without personal capital, he borrowed the capital required to get control of this business, to the amount of $6,500. His subsequent success has been a proof of his great industry and remarkable skill in a business way. By the first of January, 1920, his business had increased and prospered to such an extent that the annual volume of its business had reached approximately $40,000. The Miami Roofing Company, of which he is president and treasurer, is engaged in the roofing and roof contruction business and handles only the highest grade standard roofing materials, such as Barrett's Barber's and H. F. Watson's. The business has been built strictly on honor, and the company has an enviable record of carrying out every contract in detail. Mr. Heap is president of the Consolidated Building Corporation, general contractors.

At LaPorte, Indiana, in 1886, he married Lucy Reighard, member of a prominent family of Northern Indiana, particularly in educational circles. Her parents were Dr. John D. and Mary (Hulbert) Reighard. Her father settled at LaPorte in 1832, and was an early teacher in that

section of Indiana. Mrs. Heap is a sister of Dr. Jacob Reighard, who since 1895 has been professor of zoology and director of the Zoological Laboratory in the University of Michigan. He is one of America's prominent scientists, belongs to a number of scientific and scholarly societies, and is author of many public articles in his particular field.

GEORGE A. WALDECK has devoted the greatest part of his active career to dredging operations along the Atlantic Coast, and for a dozen years past the headquarters for his operations have been in Miami. Mr. Waldeck is an acknowledged authority on dredging of harbors and rivers, and has built up an extensive business, known as the Waldeck-Deal Dredging Company, of which he is founder and president.

Mr. Waldeck is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and his first experience in the dredging business began in that city in 1906. For several years he was associated with the Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company. On removing to Miami in 1911 he became identified with the Bowers Souther Dredging Company of that city, but in 1918 he established his present business. This company owns and operates three large modern dredges, fitted with all the machinery and equipment required for dredging operations.

His business experience since coming to Florida has been largely in operation in Biscayne Bay, the Miami River and some other points in South Florida. Beginning in the winter of 1921-22 the facilities of the company have been employed in the great undertaking of dredging the new ship channel in the bay and river at Miami, shortening the old channel and making available the port of Maimi to the larger and better class ocean going vessels. In addition to handling this contract, which is so important a factor in the improvement of Miami's harbor, Mr. Waldeck's company has completed contracts for a number of other projects of importance, some of them at a cost running up and beyond a hundred thousand dollars. This company filled in Island No. 1 for the Bay Biscayne Improvement Company, involving the placing of 700,000 yards of cubic material. For the same company another contract, started in the summer of 1922, required the filling in of 5,000,000 cubic yards of material. Mr. Waldeck is general manager as well as president of the company.

He has been active in local affairs, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Elks and Knights of Columbus and several clubs and civic organizations.

WILLIAM D. HORNE, president of the Bank of Homestead, at Homestead, Dade County, where he is also the owner of the substantial and important retail hardware business conducted under the title of the W. D. Horne Company, has prestige as one of the vigorous and resourceful figures in pioneer development enterprise and civic progress in this favored section of Florida, where his interests are now large and varied. His initiative energy and mature judgment have come prominently into play in the general development and advancement of the interests of Dade County, and the success which he has achieved represents the concrete results of his own efforts, the reflex of which has been to the benefit of the entire community.

The splendid work accomplished by Mr. Horne is the more interesting to contemplate by virtue

of the fact that he is a native son of Florida, his birth having occurred in Madison County, this state, in 1875. From his boyhood until he attained to his legal majority he was associated with the varied activities of his father's farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the schools of the locality and period. Upon coming to the southern part of the state he resided four years at Miami, judicial center of Dade County, and then, in 1904, he became a pioneer at Homestead, which was then represented only by the railroad station, with the station agent and a small force of railroad section hands as virtually the only inhabitants of what is now a vital and progressive little city of about 1,500 population. The Florida East Coast Railway had just been completed to this point, which at that time represented its terminus. Mr. Horne here opened a small store, the first mercantile establishment in the embryonic village, his view being that here might be developed a prosperous business by securing the trade that would naturally attend the extension of the railroad to Key West. Since that early period in the history of Homestead Mr. Horne has applied himself with unremitting diligence and ability to the management of his varied and constantly expanding business and industrial interests, and he stands well to the front as one of the founders and builders of Homestead, the while substantial financial success has attended his activities. His little store developed into the important hardware concern now conducted under the title of the W. D. Horne Company. he being the sole owner of this business, which is one of the largest of its kind in Southern Florida. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Homestead, which was incorporated. in 1912, with a capital stock of $15,000, since increased to $25,000, and which has exercised important influence in the general development of this community along both civic and material lines. The bank owns and occupies its own building, a modern concrete structure with two store rooms and the banking offices on the first floor and with the second floor equipped for office purposes. One of the stores in the building is occupied by the hardware establishment of Mr. Horne, and this is the finest business building at Homestead. Mr. Horne has been president of the Bank of Homestead from the time of its organization, he owns and has improved a fine farm and orange-grove property in the vicinity of Homestead, and is the owner also of a fine farm on Lake Okechobee, where he produces winter vegetables, he finding much satisfaction in giving to this farm his personal supervision. He is one of the strong and resourceful men who are making Southern Florida come into its own, and much honor is due him for the effective work which he has here achieved.

Mr. Horne wedded Miss Ida V. Campbell, of Madison County, and they have four children: Loretta, Russell, Dexter and Elizabeth.

FRANK S. BROWNE established his permanent residence in the City of Miami in the autumn of 1920, and as architect, artist and builder and as a progressive and public-spirited citizen he has proved a most popular acquisition to the business and social circles of this idyllic southern city.

Mr. Browne was born in New York City. in the year 1890, and is a son of Frank and Mary (Black) Browne, the former of whom is deceased

and the latter of whom now resides in the home of her son, Frank S., of this review. Mrs. Browne was born in Virginia, received the best of educational advantages, including those of Cooper Institute, New York City, and she is a gracious gentlewoman of exceptional literary and artistic talent. For several years she has been well known in the literary field as a contributor to magazines and newspapers.

The early education of Frank S. Browne was acquired in the national metropolis, where he attended De La Salle Institute and also Columbia University, in the latter of which he took the art course and also a course in architectural drafting. His artistic talent, developed through such training, found exemplification in effective cartoon work and other art work for New York newspapers, but it is in his profession as an architect that he has gained special prestige and

success.

It will be recalled that on the 6th of April, 1917, the nation became formally involved in the great World war, and on the 30th of that month Mr. Browne made volunteer enlistment in the United States Army. He was placed in charge of all construction at Fort Hamilton, New York, and of the coast defense of the southern coastline of the Empire State. In the spring of 1918 he was transferred to Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Florida, and was here commissioned commanding officer and instructor of the second company of the Officers Training Corps. In this capacity he continued his effective service until the signing of the historic armistice brought the war to a close, and he received his honorable discharge on the 10th of December, 1918.

Mr. Browne is now in the moving picture business, and is designer of sets and art titles for the Silver Screen Studio. His civic loyalty is shown in his earnest efforts in the preservation and development of trees and shrubbery as a matter of city adornment, and in this field he has authoritative technical and artistic knowledge. He is an appreciative and popular member of the local Post of the American Legion, and in the city and state of their adoption he and his gracious and talented young wife have won a host of friends. Mrs. Browne, whose maiden name was Mary Laemmle, was born and reared in New York, and during the World war period she was active in volunteer war work in the national metropolis.

E. W. BEBINGER is actively associated with some of the leading business concerns at Miami. For a number of years he has been business manager for the law firm of Shutts & Bowen, one of the most prominent law firms in the state.

Mr. Bebinger was born at Aurora, Indiana, December 23, 1884. He began his connection with Florida in July, 1909, as an employe of the Treasury Department of the United States. At that time he came to Miami as clerk to the receiver of the Fort Dallas National Bank. He acted in that capacity until July, 1912, and since then has been business manager for Shutts & Bowen, handling the many business affairs individually owned or handled by this well known law firm.

Mr. Bebinger is president of the City Auto Supply Company, a corporation. He is vice president of the Florida Marble and Granite Company; is secretary and general manager of the Union Realty Company; is secretary of the Miami Building Company; a director of the Miami Building and

Loan Association; is secretary of the Cape Sable Development Company, a corporation in which Mr. Samuel Untermeyer of New York is largely interested financially and which is engaged in important development work in the Cape Sable region of Florida.

Mr. Bebinger is a member of the Miami Civitan Club, one of the city's most useful and active organizations. It has a membership of about seventy representative and public spirited citizens. He is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Bebinger married Miss Hannah Jane Stodghill, of Aurora, Indiana. Their two children are Dorothy and June.

CYRIL AYLMER VIVIAN is one of the many successful business men of Miami who have barely attained the maturity of thirty odd years of life. Mr. Vivian has made a reputation in the abstract and title profession, and is secretary and treasurer of the Florida Title Company.

He was born at Apopka in Orange County, Florida, in the year 1893, son of H. A. and the late Margaret Elizabeth (Harding) Vivian. His father was born in England and his mother in Ireland. They came to America soon after their marriage, when the father was only twenty-one, and established a home in Orange County. When Cyril A. Vivian was a child they moved to Orlando. His father is now living at Tallahassee.

C. A. Vivian was reared at Orlando, is a graduate of the high school of that city, and finished a years' business course in Stetson University at DeLand. Since leaving school his time, effort and study have been concentrated on the abstracting and title profession. He began as an office man at a nominal salary in Orlando, but in 1915 went to Miami to work in the office of the Miami Abstract Company, owned by Tatum Brothers. This company was later merged into the present Florida Title Company. Industry and special talents for abstract and title work have brought Mr. Vivian many successive promotions until he is secretary and treasurer of one of the largest concerns of its kind in Florida. The president of the Florida Title Company is S. M. Tatum, of the firm of Tatum Brothers, known all over Florida on account of their investments and development work in real estate, commerce and industrial enterprises. They have probably accomplished more than any other one organization for the development of Miami and Southeast Florida. The Florida Title Company is capitalized at $100,000.

Mr. Vivian was glad to do his part in the World war. Early in 1918 he entered a training camp at Syracuse, New York, being assigned to duty with the Three Hundred and Eighth Guard Company, attached to the Quartermaster's Corps. He was with that company on guard duty at Baltimore with the rank of sergeant, and received his honorable discharge in the spring of 1919 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. He at once resumed his business connections at Miami. Mr. Vivian is affiliated with the Masons and Elks. He is a member of the Miami Civitan Club, the American Legion and the Florida and American Associations of Title Men.

In the year 1919 he married Miss Helen E. Coffey, of Orange, New Jersey. They have a daughter, Muriel Elizabeth.

RICHARD M. WELLS is founder and president of the Miami Mattress Company, now one of