three acres of property on the Atlantic Beach just east of Pompano. This property was divided into lots, improved with electric light and water system, and is one of the most notable real estate developments along the Southeast Coast. George L. Blount married Miss Mary Elizabeth Thomas of Bradentown, Florida. She was born in Texas. Their four children are Landrum, Martha, Bruce and Eunice.

H. J. FREEMAN was the pioneer business man of the Buena Vista section of Miami. He located there in 1912 when there were no buildings of any kind in Buena Vista. In ten years he has built up an automobile supply, garage and general motor car service that is one of the most efficient along the Dixie Highway in Florida.

Mr. Freeman was born at Collins in Erie County, New York, grew up on a farm, and as a very young man went to Michigan and for a time was in the celery growing business in the Kalamazoo district. He then removed to St. Louis, and for twenty-six years was a produce and commission merchant on Fourth Street near Morgan.

With this long and extensive business experience behind him he came to Florida in the latter part of 1910 and after looking over the field, determined to establish himself in what is now Buena Vista, Miami's flourishing suburb on the north. Here he put up the first business plant, and that has proved the nucleus for the subsequent development that makes Buena Vista one of the most substantial commercial sections of Miami. His first building was a one-story structure 16x16 feet, and he used it as a repair shop for bicycles and motor cycles and also handles these vehicles. Every year has seen an increase and extension and his establishment now comprises a complete stock of automobile supplies, accessories, parts and tires. The business is carried on as H. J. Freeman & Sons, and they own and operate one of the largest garages in South Florida, with modern mechanical equipment and skilled mechanics for every possible service. The main building fronts on Northeast Second Avenue, the Dixie Highway, and is 75 by 120 feet, while an additional building in the rear used for garage purposes is 55 by 120 feet, two stories high.

This business has been built up by Mr. Freeman from his many years past experience as a successful business man and upon the strictest principles of honor and integrity. Associated with him are his two sons R. D. and E. H. Freeman, both of whom were born in St. Louis. Mr. Freeman married Miss Annie Gorman of St. Louis, and besides their two sons they have a daughter, Helen Leslie Freeman.

Mr. Freeman is a member of the Buena Vista Commercial Club, and is vice president and a director of the Buena Vista Savings and Loan Association. This association ranks among the strongest organizations of its kind in Florida, and has been the means of encouraging the building of many homes in Buena Vista.

ALLAN MACKINTOSH, president of the Southern Lumber & Supply Company of Tampa, is one of the solid and representative men of Hillsborough County, whose astuteness and business acumen have aided materially in the development of his concern. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, February 7, 1870, and was reared and educated in his native country. Early in life he came to

the United States, settling in Florida, and in 1896, when twenty-six years of age, he came to Tampa, which city has continued to be his home ever since.

Upon coming to Tampa he entered the lumber business, and has continued in it, and is now at the head of the Southern Lumber & Supply Company, the largest and most prosperous concern of its kind in the south. This company owns and operates extensive works at Tampa, and has customers in all parts of Florida. It handles all kinds of lumber and building materials at both wholesale and retail, and its planing mill and mill-work shops are thoroughly modern and equipped with special machinery of latest design. The plant is located at the foot of Tyler Street. Associated with Mr. Mackintosh in the business is C. H. Knowles, who is vice president, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work, and the two have achieved something of which they may well be proud, for it not only is a source of wealth to them, but is a valuable addition to the industrial life of Tampa and Hillsborough County.

On April 5, 1896, Mr. Mackintosh married at Ocala, Florida, Miss Mary E. Gaskill, and they have two children, namely: Annie and Margaret. Mr. Mackintosh is recognized as one of the most valuable citizens of Tampa, and his influence for good government and progressive civic advancement is felt in many ways.

WALTER WILLARD THOMPSON, Lieutenant commander of the United States Navy now on the reserved list, was the organizer and trainer of that famous unit known as the Miami Naval Militia for the World war, and both in war and peace has earned distinction in Florida, which is his native state.

Commander Thompson was born at Key West in 1875. His father Caleb Thompson was of English ancestry, and as a sea-faring man established his home at Key West. He lost his life at sea. Commander Thompson was reared and educated at Key West, and for over twenty years was publisher and editor of the Key West citizen, having organized that paper in 1899. During the Spanish-American war he had joined the Navy at Key West, and was promoted eventually_to lieutenant commander of the Naval Militia. For several years Commander Thompson owned and operated a lumber mill at Homestead in Dade County, and from there removed to Miami and became a member of the staff of the Miami Herald.

In January, 1917 about three months before America entered the World war, Mr. Thompson at the suggestion of Admiral Ross retired, U. S. Navy, whose home is at Coconut Grove, began the organization of the Miami Naval Militia, a unit in the Seventh Naval District. He recruited and trained 131 men for this unit at Miami, spending about four months in this work. Miami had the honor of having the only sub-training station in the country. Commander Thompson was commander of this station. He took the Miami unit to Charleston, and was there assigned duty at the Navy yards, being placed in command of the training camp with 6,000 men. Before the war ended he had recruited, organized and trained 50,000 men for service in the United States Navy.

It is a source of pride to Miami, and of much credit to Commander Thompson, that the Miami contingent of 131 men comprised one of the finest organizations in the naval operations in

the war, and received a distinctive tribute from the Navy Department on that score.

Including his service before, during and after the active period of the war, Commander Thompson was on duty in the Navy with the rank of lieutenant_commander, for five years and four months. He was relieved of active duty in July 1922, received his formal discharge on the first of August, though retained on the reserve list of officers, and then returned to Miami to take up the business program which was interrupted by the war.

Commander Thompson married Miss Catherine Lowe of Key West. They have four daughters, Celeste, Mary, Anna and Elizabeth.

ROBERT FALLIGANT. A number of young exservice men from the Great war have established themselves at Miami and wield an almost commanding influence in the business and professional affairs of that city. One of these is Robert Falligant, who has a record of more than three years in the American Army during the Mexican border troubles in the World war, and is now engaged in the real estate business, with offices in the Central Arcade.

He was born at Savannah, Georgia, in 1890 and represents one of the historic families of Savannah. The Falligants were originally French, but established themselves in America in Colonial times and are the families who were represented in the Revolutionary war. The parents of the Miami real estate man were Dr. Louis A. and Rosa (Brown) Falligant. His mother is still living. Dr. Louis A. Falligant was born in 1836, and died in Savannah in 1902. He was a surgeon of the Confederate Army and studied medicine in Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island. He was an expert in handling yellow fever, at one time was city health officer of Savannah and was a member of the sanitary board of the city during the yellow fever epidemic of 1876 and subsequently served as expert to the Congressional Yellow Fever Commission during the epidemic at New Orleans in 1878. He was one of the active members of the American Public Health Association. His brother Judge Robert Falligant was a Confederate officer and a distinguished lawyer of Savannah.

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Robert Falligant of Miami was accorded all the liberal educational advantages in keeping with the social traditions of his family. He was educated in the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Washington and Lee University of Virginia and in the University of Georgia. After finishing his university career he became a teller in the American National Bank of Macon, Georgia.

He left that position in the fall of 1916 to go to El Paso on the Mexican border as a member of the National Guard of Georgia. Soon after America entered the war with Germany in 1917 he joined the National Army at Camp Harris at Macon, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, in France and was among the first American troops to go overseas. He went over with the One Hundred Fifty-first Machine Gun Battalion in the famous Rainbow or Forty-second Division in October, 1917. On reaching France he was detailed for intensive study in the French Infantry School at Langres. Besides his experience with the French Army he saw service with the Royal Lancashire Regiment of British troops at Arras. He was then assigned to the Three Hundred and Twelfth Infantry of the Seventy-eighth

Division, and during the great offensives in the summer of 1918 was on constant duty in the front line trenches, including St. Mihiel and the Argonne. In the Argonne an act of conspicuous bravery brought him promotion to the rank of First Lieutenant. At one post of duty in the Argonne he lost twenty-one out of the forty men under his command October 16, 1918, also in the Argonne campaign and while his regiment, the Three Hundred and Twelfth was located at Grandpre, he was selected by his superior officer to take a platoon of men and establish a liaison with the French troops whose exact location was then unknown. Lieutenant Falligant successfully carried out this order under great hazard. After the armistice he was assigned to Military Police duty covering the three departments of Saone-etLoire, Aisne and Jura. Mr. Falligant returned to America in the late summer of 1919, and was discharged at Camp Gordon, Georgia, September 9, 1919, completing an army service record of three years, three months.

Mr. Falligant came to Miami in the latter part of 1919, held a temporary position as teller in the First National Bank, but resigned to establish himself in the general real_estate_business.

Mr. Falligant married Grace Sufforto-Close of Boston. She was born at St. Augustine, Florida, and her father was a prominent Spanish diplomat who spent several years in the service of his country in America.

C. H. PERRY. By his work if not by his name C. H. Perry is one of the most widely known men in Southern Florida. He is a pioneer of Miami, and was there long before the event which gave birth to the town, the building of the railroad. In general building construction, and particularly the handling of machinery and the installation of water systems, Mr. Perry has performed the service that links his name with the real historical development of this locality.

Mr. Perry was born and reared at Americus, Georgia. It was in 1888 that he came to Florida, locating on the Indian River. His first enterprise in the state was the reconstruction work connected with the big phosphate mine at High Springs. A builder by trade, has always been connected in one way or another with building and construction work.

Mr. Perry came to the present site of Miami in 1890, six years before the railroad was completed, and before such a town as Miami was even thought of. The only people in the vicinity who could properly be called permanent residents were the Seminole Indians. Mr. Perry took up some government land, and he brought down to Ocean Beach the first horses' ever landed at this point on the coast. With the completion of the Florida East Coast Railroad in 1896, town building began, and Mr. Perry had a large share in the early building enterprise. Of his personal recollection and experience he can recall every important phase of development in the early years of the city.

In connection with building construction he began handling on a moderate scale machinery, and has since developed one of the largest and most successful machinery houses in South Florida. He is a sales representative for a number of standard makes of engines, tractors, farm implements, pumping machinery, irrigation plants and equipment, electric lighting and electrically driven pumping systems.

However, the distinctive side of his business

goes beyond the sales and distribution service. For many years his specialty has been the development, equipment and installation of water supply systems, not only for private property owners, but for large sub-divisions and for municipalities. In the early days Mr. Perry installed a water supply system on the estate of the noted author Kirk Munroe, at Coconut Grove. The work was so thoroughly well done and so satisfactory that Mr. Munroe was eager to give it wide endorsement among his extensive acquaintance with prominent men, and this brought Mr. Perry a succession of contracts with numerous owners of the magnificent estates that have been built in the vicinity of Miami and Coconut Grove. Among others he installed the water system for the great estate of James Deering, and very recently he completed the water system on the estate of William Jennings Bryan. It is not wide of the proof to say that Mr. Perry has installed practically all of the water systems in Miami and vicinity. This work has brought him the rating of the most expert and best equipped man on water supply and water systems in his part of the state. Such a reputation should properly be a source of great pride to him. What he has done he has done well, efficiently and honestly, and his business career is an unusual record of important service.

Mr. Perry married Miss Mary S. Pent, who was born at Coconut Grove, Florida. Their five children are: Lulu May, Cleona Hamilton, Margery Gay, James Seager, Mary Matilda.

WILLIAM W. TRICE. A former business man, W. W. Trice has for the greater part of his active life been associated with banking. He has been a resident of Tampa for twenty years, and is vice president of the Citizens American Bank and Trust Company.

Mr. Trice was born at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 27, 1875, son of John Buckner and Jeanie (Dagg) Trice, his father a native of Kentucky and his mother of Georgia. The Trices have long been a prominent family of Hopkinsville. W. W. Trice is the oldest of six living children. He was reared in Hopkinsville, attended the public schools there, graduated in 1895 from Richmond College, and then for seven years was treasurer of a contracting company at Hopkinsville. For about two years was with the Planters Bank of that city, an institution that had been founded by his grandfather, Stephen Trice. He was in its service while his father was cashier.

On coming to Tampa in 1902, Mr. Trice was associated for one year with Cuesta, Rey & Company, and then entered the Citizens Bank in the collection department, served as assistant cashier and cashier, and since 1919 has been active vice president of the Citizens American Bank & Trust Company. He is also a director in the Hillsborough Grocery Company, treasurer of the Mutual Realty and Investment Company and has a number of other important interests in the city. He is president of the Tampa Clearing House Association, and is on one of the important committees of the Florida Bankers Association.

Mr. Trice is a Mason, Knight of Pythias and a member of the Phi Delta College Fraternity, belongs to the Tampa Florida Club, Board of Trade, the Golf Club, of which he was at one time treasurer, and is very active in the First Baptist Church, being deacon and for seven years superintendent of the Sunday school. He is treasurer

and a director of the Y. M. C. A., and during the World war had a part of the duties of every committee for the different drives.

In 1906 Mr. Trice married Nell Pollica, of Tampa, a native of Texas, and daughter of John and Martha (Webb) Pollica. Mr. and Mrs. Trice have two sons and two daughters: William W., Jr., Stephen Edward, Jeanie Margaret and Martha Nell.

REGINALD V. WATERS, head of the Waters Realty Company, is a man of recognized standing in the business and profession of Realtor at Miami. He and his associates have done some big things for the city within recent years.

Mr. Waters has spent most of his life in Florida and has had a widely varied and interesting experience. He was born at Stockton in Worcester County, Maryland, in 1887, and was four years of age when his parents in 1891 came to Florida and established their home on the Indian River and St. Lucie County at what is now the Town of Walton. From early boyhood he grew up there on his father's pineapple plantation, and was educated in the public schools of St. Lucie County. The public schools were usually held in a small one room building, and for about six months each year. Later Mr. Waters attended a commercial school, and in 1905 at the age of seventeen he came to Miami and was a stenographer and clerk with the law firm of Hudson & Boggs. He also studied law, but was never admitted to the bar and has never parcticed. Leaving Miami he removed to Savannah, Georgia, where he was private secretary to the vice president of the Central Railway of Georgia. Then followed an active experience on a large stock farm which he owned in South Georgia.

Mr. Waters had his first experience in the real estate business in St. Lucie County, where the Waters Realty Company originated. In 1916 he returned to Miami, and in March, 1918, he left his business to go into training as a soldier at Fort Screven, Georgia. He was assigned to duty in Company C, of the Forty-third Battalion of the Twentieth Engineers. He served until honorably discharged in January, 1919.

Since the war Mr. Waters has given his undivided attention to his growing business as a realtor.

Mr. Waters is a member of the executive committee and for two years was secretary of the Miami Realty Board, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Kiwanis Club. His residence is at 1024 Southwest Twelfth Court. His wife, who died in the summer of 1921, was Miss Roberta Cason of Miami. She was a daughter of Rev. J. R. Cason and a niece of Senator F. M. Hudson of Miami.

MARTIN L. MERSHON was a lieutenant in the army during the World war and soon after his discharge located in Miami, where he has since been engaged in a successful practice as a lawyer. He is the son of a late distinguished lawyer and jurist of both Florida and Georgia.

His father Judge Martin L. Mershon was born at Monticello, Florida, in 1839. He served in the Confederate Army as a member of the Third Florida Regiment and after the war became a lawyer. For a number of years he lived at Brunswick, Georgia, where he enjoyed an extensive practice, and became a man of prominence both as a lawyer and judge. He was especially