of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Mr. Wagg is president of the Clewiston Development Company, which owns the 2,500acre townsite of Clewiston at the southern terminal of the A. C. L. Railroad on Lake Okechobee. At this point they plan to establish a modern city which will be the commercial center of the great Florida Everglades.

DUNCAN H. MCCALLUM. In preparing a review of the careers of men whose names stand out prominently in the courts of various communities of Florida, as well as in the civil and municipal affairs of their cities and towns, and who by character and achievement have attained prominence, the record of Duncan H. McCallum, of Crestview, clerk of the court of Okaloosa County, is found to be one that commands more than passing attention. His career is an exemplary one and fully typifies the real spirit of the times. He has passed his life in the community in which he now lives and has helped to make it grow, and few men have been more active in recent years in promoting the public welfare.

Mr. McCallum was born in Okaloosa County, Florida, then included in Walton County, December 25, 1879, and is a son of William Alexander and Isabelle (Hinote) McCallum, natives of Florida, the latter of whom died in 1918. His paternal grandparents were Duncan C. and Rosanna (McRea) McCallum, of North Carolina, who were early settlers of the Euchee Valley, and his maternal grandparents were Howell and Marie (Trammell) Hinote, who came to Florida in 1830. William Alexander McCallum, who is a leading agriculturist of Okaloosa County, is prominent in public matters in his community, and served as a member of the State Legislature from his district in 1905.

Duncan H. McCallum attended the public schools of his native locality, and early displayed his industry and desire to embark upon a career of his own. Even while going to school he spent his odd hours in working at whatever employment he could find, and at sixteen years, when he completed his education, began to work steadily, from that time forward being self-supporting. For a long time he was variously engaged, working as a clerk in stores or as a hand on the farms of the community, but in 1904 secured permanent employment when he went to DeFuniak Springs and became clerk in the general store of W. A. Laird, with whom he remained for three years. He then became general utility man for the Milligan Scotch Manufacturing Company, a naval stores, lumber and sawmill business. While thus engaged he did clerking, office work and woods work, and remained with this concern for ten years, during which time he won steady promotion to the position of outside man in charge of woods work. In 1915, at the time Okaloosa County was created, Mr. McCallum was made the first clerk of the court. He was elected to that office in the fall of 1916, for a term of four years, beginning January 1, 1917, and so satisfactory was his discharge of the duties of that position that when he again became a candidate, in the fall of 1920, he was elected without opposition, entering upon another four-year term January 1, 1921. Mr. McCallum is one of the leading and influential democrats of his county and a man who has won general confidence and esteem. He belongs to the Masons, in which he has attained to the Knight Templar degree, and is also a member of the

Knights of Pythias. With his family he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

On March 31, 1907, Mr. McCallum was united in marriage at Milligan, Okaloosa County, with Miss Martha Baggett, daughter of John W. and Josephine (Wilkinson) Baggett, natives of Florida, the former of whom is deceased. Mr. Baggett followed a number of occupations during his career. As a surveyor he did much work in establishing property lines and locating residents. He also carried on logging and was a timber or lumber inspector, and at the same time always owned and operated a farm and dealt in live stock. His widow still survives him.

E. H. BARTO, of West Palm Beach, is a contractor, designer and builder of long experience, involving a technical knowledge of nearly all important branches of the building phase. Mr. Barto has carried out a very unusual and successful program of work since coming to West Palm Beach.

He was born in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and both of his parents were members of families that were established in that old county prior to the Revolutionary War. The family is still well known in the county. E. H. Barto represents a family of builders, practical men who learned trades in their youth. He himself acquired an expert knowledge of the trades of carpenter and bricklayer, and after leaving home he located at Fostoria, Ohio, where he had his first experience as a builder. Several years later he removed to the far Northwest, and for some time was engaged in building construction at Great Falls, Montana, and in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada.

It was early in 1920 when Mr. Barto established himself at West Palm Beach. The unusual attractions of the city, its climate, as well as its material facilities, caused him to decide to make his permanent home here. He at once began taking contracts for construction of buildings, and has been continuously busy, adding to his organization and facilities constantly. In a little more than two years there has been credited to him an imposing list of buildings. Among these might be mentioned the brick plant of the Kelsey City Brick and Supply Company, costing $154,000; the laboratory of the State Board of Health at West Palm Beach, built at a cost of $40,000; the city jail at West Palm Beach; the business block of the Sheen Estate; the public school building at Canal Point in Palm Beach County.

In the spring of 1922 Mr. Barto completed a fine modern residence for his own home located on Vallette Street and Carlberg Court, in the south section of the city. It is a home of two stories, built in the substantial manner of northern homes, of brick veneer construction, commodious and with facilities and arrangements providing for perfect ventilation, plumbing and water heating, bath rooms on both floors, and is a home that proves a distinct addition to the south side of the city.

Mr. Barto is a member of the West Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce and takes an active interest in all civic movements. He married Miss Flossie Deiter, a native of Ohio. Their interesting family of six children consists of Charles I., Donald A., Clayton, Trevlyn, Valera and Beulah. The three sons are all associated Iwith their father in business. They have acquired a practical education, all of them serving apprenticeships at carpentering and brick laying. Thus the business is practically a family

organization, and with father and three sons all entering actively into the different branches of the work it is not surprising that they have accomplished so much and of so substantial a nature.

JAMES ARTHUR FORD, M. D., who is engaged in the general practice of his profession in the City of Orlando County, as one of the representative younger members of the medical profession in this county, is a native son of Florida, his birth having occurred on a farm near Ocala, Marion County, this state, on the 22d of June, 1892. The Doctor is a son of William George and Josephine (Moore) Ford, the former of whom was born at Atlanta, Georgia, April 10, 1862, and the latter was born on a plantation in that state, a representative of a family that was early founded at Charleston, South Carolina, whence went the early representatives of the name into Georgia, the Moore family having had large plantation and slave-holding interests in Georgia prior to the Civil war. Arthur Ford, paternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in England, where the family genealogy is authentically traced back to the year 1646.

William George Ford acquired his early education in his native state and was a youth of sixteen years when he came to Florida, his wife having been twelve years old when she accompanied her parents to this state. William G. Ford was for many years a prominent orange-grower, but for fully fifteen years he has been successfully engaged in the mercantile business at Arcadia, the judicial center of De Soto County, in which place he has resided since 1900. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the democratic party and he and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Of their children five are living: James Arthur, George Hinton, Nell Celestia, Eva Mary, and William Hawks. The daughter Josephine met her death by accident, when twelve years of age, she having been electrocuted while in a bathtub.

After his graduation in the high school at Arcadia Doctor Ford entered the medical department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and in this institution he was graduated with the class of 1916 and with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In June of that year he received his license to practice medicine in his native state, but in the same month he set forth to assume the position of interne in Ancon Hospital, of the Panama Canal Zone. There he remained in service during one fiscal year, and he was then appointed to a position in charge of the hospital of the Gracia mine, operated by a gold-mining company at San Juan de Limay, Nicaraugua, Central America. There he remained thirteen months, and when the United States entered the World war Doctor Ford promptly returned to his native land and, early in 1918, enlisted in the United States Army, at San Francisco, California. He was thence sent to Nashville, Tennessee, and after receiving commission as first lieutenant he was sent to Camp Jackson. Thereafter he continued in active service in the sanitary department of the United States Army until he received his honorable discharge in January, 1919. In connection with this patriotic service the Doctor has become an appreciative member of the American Legion, in the affairs of which he takes lively interest. In March, 1919, Doctor Ford opened his office at Orlando, where he has since continued in the

active general practice of his profession, with a success that attests to his technical skill and his personal popularity in his home community. He is a member of the Orange County Medical Society, the Florida State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and he is now serving as a member of the surgical operating staff of the Orange General Hospital. The Doctor is a Knight Templar Mason, a noble of the Mystic Shrine, is a valued member of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and the local Kiwanis Club, and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, including the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and his political allegiance is given unreservedly to the democratic party.

In March, 1918, Doctor Ford wedded Miss Sybil E. Winfrey, who was born in Virginia but reared and educated in Tennessee. Dr. and Mrs. Ford have two children: James Arthur, Jr., and Harriet Sybil.

CAPT. DAVID F. DUNKLE. A master mind in the constructive enterprise of West Palm Beach, Captain Dunkle is a young man in years and energy, but is the peer of older men in the soundness of the judgment that directs his varied undertakings.

Captain Dunkle was born at Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, in 1888. He is a man of college and university training, was graduated with the class of 1913 in Bucknell College of Pennsylvania, and graduated with the class of 1914 from the law school of John B. Stetson University of De Land, Florida. After graduating and his admission to the bar he began practice at West Palm Beach, and he still retains his law offices in that city, though in recent years he has found little time to devote to the routine of general practice, most of his attention going to capitalistic enterprises. As a financier and promoter of extensive building and development progress he ranks as one of the leading men of action and achievements in the city.

During the World War he served as captain of Company L of the Second Florida Regiment. This regiment went overseas as a part of the Thirty-first Division, and he commanded his company during the fighting in the St. Mihiel

sector.

Among his constructive undertakings one of the most notable was the building of the Lake Court Apartments, organized and carried out under his leadership. This building was begun in 1920. The company he organized to carry out the project was capitalized at $150,000. As a result of subsequent additions the present value of the property is over half a million dollars. The Lake Court Apartments contain ninety-one apartments, are the largest and the most modern structure of the kind in the State of Florida, and in appointments and service, affording every comfort and convenience for the guests, the Lake Court is not excelled in any city. It has been the means of attraction for many persons of wealth and standing, to West Palm Beach, and is so justly popular that it is generally conceded to have done more for the city than any other enterprise.

In the spring of 1922 Captain Dunkle organized the Florida Guaranty Corporation, of which he is president, for the purpose of erecting the Guaranty Building. This structure is a sevenstory office building, and when completed will be the largest business building in a city of the

population of West Palm Beach. It occupies ground at the corner of Datura and Olive streets, ninety-three feet on Olive Street and ninety-two feet on Datura Street. The building is formed of reinforced concrete construction, with the exterior in stucco and terra-cotta.

Adjoining this new building on the north is the home of the American National Bank of West Palm Beach. Captain Dunkle was actively associated with the organization of this institution and the erection of its beautiful and costly bank building. He and Mr. Bert Winters, attorney, have secured the cooperation of a number of other substantial and influential citizens in the organization of the bank. It began business in January, 1922, and after eighty-two banking days, on April 10, 1922, its deposits totalled over a million dollars. Mr. Dunkle is a director of the bank.

As active head of the Palm Beach Guaranty Company, the Florida Guaranty Corporation and subsidiary companies, Captain Dunkle has financed more than a million dollars worth of building and development enterprises in West Palm Beach. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Rotary Club, of various civic and social clubs and organizations, and for two years he served as mayor of West Palm Beach. He and his business associates were the primary factors in giving West Palm Beach its Country Club and Golf Club.

NEIL B. WATKINS, commander of the American Legion, and junior member of the dependable mercantile house of L. S. Watkins & Son, dry goods, is one of the leading young business men of West Palm Beach, and a veteran of the World War. He was born at Cortland, New York, a son of Lucius S. and Minnie Watkins. Lucius S. Watkins, who is head of one of the leading mercantile houses of West Palm Beach, is a native of New York State, and has been in the mercantile business for nearly half a century, for many years being associated with the dry goods house of Neal & Hyde of Syracuse, New York, a firm distinguished for its long and honorable history. Its establishment is one of the landmarks of Syracuse.

The firm of L. S. Watkins & Son was established at West Palm Beach in November, 1912, by L. S. Watkins and his son Neil B. Watkins. It is a mercantile house of the highest standing. both with the buying public and the commercial world, and has had a very successful career in this city. L. S. Watkins was formerly vice president of the First National Bank of West Palm Beach, and is now a director of the new Citizens' Bank, which was organized in 1922.

Neil B. Watkins was educated at the Citadel Military College of South Carolina, at Charleston, South Carolina, and at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. He has been in the mercantile business since coming out of college, and is the active manager of the firm of L. S. Watkins & Son. Active along other lines, Mr. Watkins is president of the Retail Merchants' Association of West Palm Beach; a director of the American National Bank; a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of various other organizations and a number of clubs including the City Club of New York City. He is a Mason and a communicant of the Episcopal Church.

During the late war Mr. Watkins served in the American Army for two years, receiving his training at Fort McPherson, Georgia, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant, and was

assigned to duty in command of negro troops stationed at Marietta, Georgia, this camp being supervised by a British officer, instructing in rifle practice and trench warfare.

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In April, 1918, Mr. Watkins was assigned to Company D, 321st Machine Gun Battalion of the Eighty-second Division, and with this division he went overseas from Camp Gordon, Georgia, first to England, thence to La Havre, and then he spent two months in service with the British Army on the Somme. The Eighty-second was then transferred to the Eighth French Army in Lorraine, and was among the first American troops to occupy the Toul-Lagny sector. was in June, 1918. Subsequently Mr. Watkins was with the division through the Saint Mihiel drive, in which he was gassed by mustard gas, and was sent to the hospital, but was released in time to rejoin his regiment in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, in which he participated with the Eighty-second, and during which he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Returning to the United States, he was discharged in the latter part of May, 1919.

Neil B. Watkins married Miss Majorie Steketee, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose father is head of the largest general mercantile house of that city. The Steketee family is of HollandDutch ancestry. Mr. Watkins is a man of high principles, and he never allows his business to blind him to the needs of humanity. His employes find in him a kind and sympathetic friend, while his associates look up to him and recognize his sound judgment and reliable conceptions. Among his old comrades he is a natural leader, and he is now commanding his post of the American Legion, in whose work he is active, and about whose scope he is enthusiastic. He is one of the typical young men of the New South, competent, alert and resolute, giving to his business and community a devotion which is characteristic of the man.

WILLIAM J. VON BEHREN. The wonderful growth in realty values at West Palm Beach during the past decade has brought to the forefront a class of men who for general ability, astuteness and driving force are unsurpassed by any in the state. They have developed West Palm Beach, rather than that the city has made them, for without their vision, energy and convincing faith in this locality others would not have become interested, and in turn communicated their newly awakened interests to their associates, thus widening the scope and strengthening the influence exerted by these apostles of progress, the realtors of Palm Beach County. The progress of West Palm Beach has been marked by a series of brilliant efforts on the part of the men who have devoted themselves to exploiting its advantages in every respect, thus inducing the investment of capital, and the selection of the city as a permanent place of residence. Among those who have achieved more than passing prominence as a realtor is William J. von Behren, whose record as an alert and reliable operator in this field is stainless and enviable. That he stands well with his business associates is a further proof of his ability and integrity, and he is proud of the friendship of many of the leading men of the city, as they are of his.

William J. von Behren was born at Logansport, Indiana, in 1870, and began his connection with the business world early in life. securing his first permanent experience as an employe of the Standard Oil Company at Louisville, Kentucky.