Sarah (King) Dillard, who were natives of Virginia and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His father served as a Confederate soldier throughout the war with the rank of captain, and in private life was a tobacco planter. He died when nearly sixty years of age and the mother lived to the age of seventy-four. They reared five children, four sons and one daughter.

James La Fayette Dillard was reared on a farm, acquired a common school education and at the age of eighteen began doing for himself. For two years he lived on a farm, for four years was employed in railroad construction and for about four years was supervisor of outside property for the asylum at Staunton, Virginia.

In 1888 at the age of thirty Mr. Dillard came to Florida and settled at Winter Garden. Winter Garden was then the center of a district being rapidly developed as a citrus and vegetable growing district. Mr. Dillard rented lands and cultivated fruit and vegetables on the shares with J. H. Vick on the property then known as Washington Place, land that has subsequently been incorporated in the City of Winter Garden. During 1894-95 he suffered with other growers from the heavy freeze, but instead of abandoning the business he began planting heavily in orange and grapefruit trees and in time became one of the largest individual producers of citrus fruits and vegetable crops in this section. He gave his personal supervision to this branch of his business until 1910. He has acquired large real estate interests in Winter Grove and has developed much of his property with homes and he also gave the community a substantial brick hotel. He has been a merchant, and was identified with the organization of the first bank, the Bank of Winter Garden, of which he is a director and vice president.

Mr. Dillard is a democrat, has allowed political honors to keep him out rather than standing as an aspirant for any office. Nevertheless he served eight years as county commissioner and was for several terms a member of the town council, and in the fall of 1918 was elected to the Legislature, serving in the extra session and the regular session of 1919. He is a member of the Baptist Church and was chairman of the building committee which has had supervision of the building of a church home to cost $150,000 when completed.

In 1888, a short time before coming to Florida, Mr. Dillard married Miss Mattie Showalter, a native of Rockingham County, Virginia. She died August 8, 1922, and is survived by one son, Marvin D., and two daughters, Mabel and Gladys.

J. M. MCCASKILL is a member of one of the leading law firms of Miami, McCaskill and McCaskill. He and his brother both left their professional business to serve the Government at the time of the war, J. M. McCaskill enlisting in the United States naval reserve force.

He was born in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, in 1886. He was educated in the public schools of his native state, graduated in 1910 from the Louisiana Industrial Institute at Ruston, a polytechnic institution, and soon afterward came to Florida and entered the College of Law of the University of Florida at Gainesville. He graduated LL.B. in 1913, and in the same year moved to Miami and entered practice in association with his brother, G. E. McCaskill. Mr. G. E. McCaskill was educated for the law in John B. Stetson University at De Land, Florida.

It was in the latter part of 1917 that J. M. McCaskill enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force at Miami. He was first assigned to duty as a second class seaman, but on account of his qualification and training as a lawyer he was soon transferred to Key West and, after successive promotions, was assigned to duty as judge advocate for the Seventh Naval District, with the rank of junior grade lieutenant. The Seventh District was then under the command of Rear Admiral W. B. Fletcher. He continued this special service until honorably discharged May 1, 1919.

His brother. G. E. McCaskill, performed his service as an examining attorney for the Fuel Administration at Washington. J. M. McCaskill married Ruth Lawrence, a native of Ohio. He is a member of the American Legion and is an ex-post commander of the Miami Post. He was the second president of the Miami Civitan Club, of which he is a member, and is a thirtysecond degree Mason and Shriner.

PERCIVAL R. BOWERS. With a well established reputation as a civil engineer whose experience had been gained in connection with some of the notable constructive enterprises of the New York Metropolitan District, Percival R. Bowers came to Florida eight years ago, and has since continued his profession, with home at West Palm Beach. He has been an engineer in connection with a number of projects on the South Coast, and had socially identified himself with the civic and social affairs of West Palm Beach.

He was born at Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1874, son of Allen A. and Mary (Richards) Bowers. He acquired the liberal education of a real New Englander, attending the public schools of Boston and Summerville, Massachusetts, and finishing his technical course in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University. For a quarter of a century he has been engaged in engineering work. Some of his engagements took him out of the United States as far away as Labrador and Alaska. For two years he was an engineer on the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under East River in New York. Another considerable portion of his professional experience was in electric railway construction in New England.

Establishing his home at West Palm Beach in 1914, Mr. Bowers has handled the engineering problems involved in the building of sea walls, drainage enterprises, the development of subdivisions, and public works of different kinds. He is an engineer of genuine ability, is a member of the American Association of Engineers and the Florida Engineers' Association, and is registered under the State Engineers' Examining Board.

As a citizen he has been called upon to discharge responsible public duties, and for six months was a member of the Council of the South Borough of West Palm Beach and in April, 1922, was elected city commissioner of West Palm Beach, representing the South Borough. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the road committee of the Palm Beach County Motor Club.

In September, 1895, he married Miss Maud Ethel Spalding of Boston. She died, leaving one daughter, Dorothy, who is now the widow of A. P. Taylor, and is secretary to the Bursar of Boston University. Mr. Bowers' present wife

was Alice Maud Cook. She is a native of Leeds, England. The three children of this marriage are Phylis, Philip and Winifred.

HON. THOMAS R. JAMES. No individual is elevated to the judiciary without he has proven that he is fitted by training and character for that exceedingly responsible position. Too grave issues lie in the hands of the judiciary for men of narrow gauge to be selected, and taken as a whole the men who form the third body of the government are of high character and learned in their profession. Every lawyer is not fitted by any means for the bench. An individual may be thoroughly trained in the law, possess an almost irresistible eloquence, be endowed with a fine moral character, and yet not be able to give to the onerous duties pertaining to a judgeship an impartial judgment and sane, practical action. The members of the Florida judiciary as a body have excelled in the qualities so necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of their high office, and among them one who has established an excellent record is Hon. Thomas R. James, of Crestview, judge of the County Court of Okaloosa County.

Judge James was born July 30, 1870, at Missionary, Mississippi, and is a son of Thomas H. and Fannie C. (Street) James, and a grandson of Philip H. James, one of the pioneers of Mississippi. Thomas H. James was born in Mississippi and reared to the vocation of farming, in which he was engaged at the outbreak of the war between the states. He enlisted in a Mississippi volunteer infantry regiment in the Confederate Army, and served bravely until incapacitated by a wound in his left leg, from which he later recovered. He then resumed his farming activities, in which he continued to be engaged during the remainder of his life. He passed away in Mississippi, as did his worthy wife, who was also a native of that state.

The youngest of his parents' children, Thomas R. James received his early education in the public schools of his native place and the high school at Montrose Training School, under the direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which belonged to the Mississippi Conference. He was about nineteen years of age when he completed his course at that institution, and at that time began a career as an educator, a vocation which he followed for about nine years in Jasper County, Mississippi, during the winter terms, while in the summer months he applied his energies to the business of farming. During all this period he had cherished an ambition to enter the law, and eventually he enrolled as a student at Milsap's College of Law at Jackson, Mississippi, an academic school with a law department, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1902, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In that year he commenced the practice of his profession at Poplarville, Mississippi, but after one year removed to Lucedale, in the same state, which was the scene of his professional activities for about ten years. At that time he removed to Pensacola, where he remained one year, next going to Laurahill, Okaloosa County. He had been in the latter community for about one year when he received the appointment to the office of county judge, necessitating his residence at Crestview, where he has since made his home. In the fall election of 1920 Judge James was elected for a full term of four years, commencing January 1, 1921. He

has discharged the duties of his office in a capable manner and has won the confidence and esteem of the people of his community. Judge James is a stalwart democrat in politics. He belongs with his family to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Masons, in which he has attained to the Knight Templar degree.

In April, 1906, at Lucedale, Mississippi, Judge James was united in marriage with Mrs. Ada McClanahan, daughter of L. and Mary (McDonald) Sellers. Mr. Sellers was a Confederate soldier during the war between the states, and for many years was an efficient and beloved educator in Mississippi and Alabama.

OLOF ZETTERLUND. The business and personal experiences of Olof Zetterlund make a picturesque personal story, and in addition his enterprise as an engineer and a land owner in developing and reclaiming some of the exceedingly valuable and special soil of the Southeast Coast comprise a factor in Florida history that should not be neglected.

Olof Zetterlund was born at Wermland, Sweden, and spent four years with technical and other studies in Stockholm. With a good technical education, but with small means, he came to America at the age of twenty. His funds were exhausted when he reached Chicago, but he managed the problem of living while completing a course in the Bryant and Stratton Business College, and soon afterward went to work in the Land Department of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway as bookkeeper. Subsequently he was made a general agent on the road, and continued with that company five years. Subsequently he was with the Land Department of the Union Pacific, with offices in Omaha and Chicago. Mr. Zetterlund was the man selected by a prominent banking firm to take charge of a colonization project on the Gulf Coast of Texas, involving 200,000 acres, in the center of which he established what is now the thriving city of El Campo. Following this he made a tour of inspection in Florida with a view to the prospects of colonization here, and a year or two later returned to Florida for the Land Department of the Florida East Coast Company. At that time he acquired the tract of land at Hollandale, in the extreme Southeast part of Florida, Broward County, adjoining Dade County, which is the scene of his operations today.

However, before returning to Florida Mr. Zetterlund had a wide and diversified experience in development projects. In the interest of a group of bankers and capitalists he investigated Santa Domingo and negotiated valuable_railway, land and harbor concessions on the Island. After considerable development this project was_abandoned because of the revolution. Mr. Zetterlund subsequently spent ten years or more in charge of a gold and silver mining project in Sina Loa, Mexico, and on leaving there he returned to his almost forgotten landholdings in Southern Florida.

While his career as an engineer in Mexico and other Latin-American countries involved a great deal of constructive work and many exciting episodes, the most interesting part of his career in the history of Florida is what he has done in the way of developing his thousand-acre holdings along the sea coast. While much of this land is subject to overflow, the soil is remarkably

fertile and suited to the growing of winter vegetables. Mr. Zetterlund out of his wide experience as an engineer designed a system and method of drainage that so far has proved remarkably successful. In addition to a system of drainage ditches and levees he has installed a number of units of a pumping system, suitable of driving out or lifting the water from the drainage laterals over the dykes so that the water level even in the heaviest rain can be kept down to a point where no material damage is done to the growing crops. This has made possible an intensive use of this land in the growing of winter vegetables, particularly tomatoes.

While his project has been demonstrated as thoroughly practical from an engineering standpoint and has likewise paid a profit on the investment, its chief significance is as an example of what may be accomplished on a wider scale either by a large aggregate of capital or through the cooperation of the state in inaugurating and carrying out a system of reclamation based on Mr. Zetterlund's successful experiments. There are many thousands of acres similarly situated and productive that are now considered useless, and might be added to the wealth producing resources of the state. Mr. Zetterlund has a wife and daughter and the family have established a winter home just south of Hollandale.

FRED HAROLD MAGUIRE came from college to take charge of his father's fruit and truck farms at Ocoee, and as one of the firm of Maguire Brothers is still prominently identified with that important industry of Orange County. He is also president of a bank at Ocoee, and has numerous interests that justify the prominence his name enjoys in that part of the state.

Mr. Maguire was born at Princeton, Georgia, December 5, 1886, son of David Oscar and Margaret (Francis) Maguire. His mother resides at Ocoee and was born at Athens, Georgia, June 30, 1858. His father was born in Rockdale County, Georgia, October 16, 1850, and died at Ocoee, November 13, 1913. His parents came to Florida in 1884, first living at Crown Point, and in 1893 removed to Ocoee where David O. Maguire developed a large body of land for the production of citrus and truck crops. He was also a leader in local politics and affairs, and when the populist party was a factor in Florida politics, he was one of its leaders, being candidate on the ticket for State Senate in 1890 and 1894 and was very nearly elected in the latter year. After the populists fused with the democrats in 1896 he resumed his affiliations with the latter party. The children of David O. Maguire and wife were: Dr. T. C. Maguire of Plant City; Charles Hugh, who died at Jacksonville in 1912 at the age of twenty-nine; Fred Harold; Raymer F., an Orlando attorney; Lillian Irma, who graduated from the Florida State College for Women with the A. B. degree in 1918, received her Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1922, and is a teacher in the Lakeland High School.

The paternal grandfather of Fred H. Maguire was Thomas Maguire, a native of Ireland, who came to America when about thirty years of age, and married a Miss Anderson, and for many years was a planter in Georgia. The maternal grandfather of F. H. Maguire was James Francis, a native of England.

Fred H. Maguire grew up at Ocoee from the time he was about seven years of age, attended

public schools there, later entered the University of Florida, and from there transferred to the University of Georgia. During his junior year he left college to look after his father's truck and citrus fruit interests, and subsequently formed the firm of Maguire Brothers at Ocoee. This ranks among the largest firms of truck growers in the state. They are now cultivating 230 acres, and in 1922 they shipped 196 carloads of truck. They also own citrus groves. F. H. Maguire is a member of the Maguire-Hawthorne Packing Company, fruit packers and shippers, and has been president of the Bank of Ocoee since its organization in 1919. He is a democrat in politics and a member of the Baptist Church.

In 1922 Mr. Maguire married Miss Letitia Dee Walker, daughter of James K. and Connie Walker of Oakland, Florida.

EARL J. REED. The Bank of Lake Worth was established in 1913, about a year after the town was incorporated, and is the first and oldest bank of that community. It is a state bank, with a capital of $25,000 and resources of over $400,000. The officers and directors comprise some of the most substantial men of the community, Orrin Randolph being president, Ward Randolph, vice president, and Alex Drake, vice president.

The cashier, Earl J. Reed, is one of the younger bankers of the state and has practically grown up with this institution. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1896. His father, E. T. Reed, has for many years been a leading manufacturer of Wheeling. Earl Reed graduated from the Wheeling High School in 1914, and immediately came to Lake Worth, Florida, to take a position in the Bank of Lake Worth. He began as clerk, went through the various grades of responsibility, and since the latter part of 1917 has been cashier. He has made a splendid record as a young man in financial circles.

Mr. Reed is also treasurer of the town of Lake Worth. He is prominent in Masonic circles, both York and Scottish Rite and the Shrine, and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Miss Florence Thurber, also a native of Wheeling, West Virginia. Her father is H. W. Thurber, a Wheeling capitalist who for several years has lived at Lake Worth.

CAPT. ELISHA NEWTON DIMICK. On Sunday, February 26, 1922, at West Palm Beach was unveiled a life size bronze statue representing the familiar face and figure of the late Capt. Elisha Newton Dimick. This statue was erected through contributions from the large number of friends, associates and admirers of this pioneer founder of Palm Beach. It was an unusual tribute, but well deserved by the substantial character of Captain Dimick, who was not only conspicuous as one of the early arrivals in this part of Southeastern Florida, but was completely devoted to the best interests of the community as long as he lived.

The late Captain Dimick represented a pioneer strain of American ancestry. He was born at Constantine, Michigan, in 1849. He married Miss Ella J. Geer, a native of Lyons, New York, where she was married. Soon after their marriage they moved to Buckley, Iroquois County, Illinois, and Illinois was her home until they started for the South, a journey that brought them to what is now Palm Beach. Thir