ries out the principal of doing what good you can while here on this earth, and he never lets an opportunity pass to do an act of kindness or friendliness at the opportune moment.

Mrs. Hopkins also is a musician of real artistic talent. She studied voice under Mr. Hopkins, and is a soprano singer. Before her marriage she was Miss Elsie Heberer, of Evansville, Indiana.

GEORGE W. BROWN, president of the dependable Brown & Wilcox Company, extensive builders and contractors, is one of the representative men of West Palm Beach, and one who is connected with some of the most important building operations in Palm Beach County. He was born at Wenonah, New Jersey, and after serving his apprenticeship at the carpenter trade, worked at it for some years as a journeyman before taking up the serious business of building and contracting on his own ac

count.

Mr. Brown is a pioneer in the building industry at West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, having located here permanently in 1900, and on account of the large volume of business and the expensiveness of the buildings he has erected in these two cities and throughout South Florida he easily ranks as the leading builder of this section of the state. When Mr. Brown first came to West Palm Beach it was practically merely the junction point for the tourist business to the world-famed resort, Palm Beach, but now it is one of the most modern of the flourishing cities of the South, and Mr. Brown has taken a leading part in this expansion. A complete list of the buildings he has erected would be too lengthy for this article, but a few of the leading ones must be given, for they include at West Palm Beach the Glidden Building, the Wilcox Building, and a large number of other business blocks and handsome residences. At Palm Beach he built the Beaux Arts Building, residences for Otto Kahn, and Joseph Elwell, a New York banker, the William Waller, Brown and Wilcox residences and the residences at Palm Beach of Charles L. Harding, C. C. Bolton, Percy Williams, R. D. Douglas and those of other winter residents of distinction at Palm Beach. More recently he erected at West Palm Beach, in conjunction with Mr. Wilcox, the First National Bank Building, and in 1922 the new Guaranty Building, the largest one in the city, and one of the finest office buildings in Florida. This building is located at the corner of Olive and Datura streets, is seven stories in height, 92 x 93 feet. The material throughout is of re-inforced concrete, with tile floors and exterior finish of stucco, with terra cotta inserts. The wainscoting, pillasters and beams are built of marble, and the entire building is of beautiful architectural design. Mr. Brown is a member of the Advisory Board of the American National Bank. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, and is thoroughly identified with all progressive movements of West Palm Beach.

Clarence Wilcox, vice-president of the Brown & Wilcox Company, was born at Westfield, New Jersey, and he joined Mr. Brown about 1912. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American National Bank, and both he and his associate enjoy the full confidence of their community and the business world.

MANFORD B. MONROE. In the improvement of highways and the construction of modern good roads in Palm Beach County the firm that has performed the bulk of the business during the

past ten years is known as Greynolds & Monroe, Incorporated, of which Manford B. Monroe is president. Mr. Monroe is also a pioneer citizen of West Palm Beach, and in many ways has been a man of prominence in this locality, though in the early years of his life he had to contend with poverty and had a hard struggle to get to a place of influence and win his standing among the world of men.

He was born in Allen County, Indiana, in 1862. His father was born in the same section of Indiana, and the grandfather was a pioneer in that district. Manford B. Monroe grew up on a farm, and when he was eleven years of age his father died and thenceforth he had to depend upon his own exertions. He was a wage earner at the age of fourteen.

In 1895 Mr. Monroe came to South Florida and located at West Palm Beach. The East Coast Railway had recently been completed, but Southeast Florida as a whole was practically a wilderness. Mr. Monroe's first activities and labors were as an orange grower in what is now Palm Beach County.

It was about 1912 that he engaged in the road construction business as head of the firm Greynolds & Monroe, Incorporated. The senior member for some years was Mr. A. O. Greynolds. This firm has been the builder of most of the great system of modern roads now the pride of Palm Beach County and Broward County, including practically all the streets in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach and Lake Worth, and in numerous subdivisions that have been incorporated in these cities. This firm built the Dixie Highway entirely through Broward County. As head of the firm Greynolds & Monroe, Incorporated, Mr. Monroe still exerts a broadly constructive influence in the improvement of South Florida. This firm has in its capital investment some of the largest and most expensive equipment of road building and road making machinery and materials.

Mr. Monroe is also secretary-treasurer of the Greynolds & Monroe Realty Company. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of West Palm Beach. By his marriage with Miss Emma Wood, of Boston, Massachusetts, he has three children, Gertrude, Dora M. and John D.

MOSES FOLSOM, secretary of the Florida State Marketing Bureau, has had an extensive experience as a journalist and author, and since assuming the incumbency of his present position at Jacksonville has become widely known because of his marketing data and general articles regarding Florida; contributed to many newspapers and periodicals both in and outside of the state. He was born August 4, 1847, at Youngstown, Ohio, a son of Elijah Elisha and Charity (Murray) Folsom, and on the paternal side is descended from New Hampshire stock, while his maternal ancestors came from Pennsylvania.

Mr. Folsom received his education in the public schools of Youngstown, and in 1862 entered as an apprentice the office of the Youngstown Register. He set by hand the type for the first issue of the Youngstown Vindicator, now the leading democratic daily of Eastern Ohio, and became editor, successively, of the Centerville Citizen. Chariton Patriot and LeMars Sentinel, all Iowa publications. He was elected president of the Iowa Editorial Association, visited the noted Ku Klux Klan districts of the South as special correspondent of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye, and supplied illustrated correspondence for the American Press Association. In 1878 he was appointed

superintendent of the Iowa State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Council Bluffs, a position which he retained until 1880, and during his incumbency introduced the printing trade in that institution and founded the Deaf-Mute Hawkeye, a paper still printed by the students. He then became general advertising agent for the Great Northern Railway, the Hill System, at St. Paul, Minnesota, a post which he occupied for ten years, and in 1890 was made general traveling passenger and land agent of the same railroad, remaining in that capacity until 1902. Mr. Folsom then returned to newspaper work as Sunday editor of the St. Paul Daily Globe, the leading democratic daily of the Northwest. In 1903 he accepted the associate editorship of the Farmer of St. Paul, holding that position until 1906, when he became editor of the Southern Field, published by the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway, Washington, District of Columbia. From 1909 to 1912 he was with the National Tribune of Washington, and in turn editor of the St. Cloud Tribune and the Lynn Haven Tribune, both Florida colony papers. During his residence of nearly fourteen years in Florida Mr. Folsom was for two years secretary of the Palatka Board of Trade, spent a year in the office of the state commissioner of agriculture at Tallahassee, and came to Jacksonville in 1917 as secretary of the State Marketing Bureau, a position which he still holds.

Mr. Folsom is the author of a number of works, including "Treasures of Science, History and Literature," "A Glance at the Globe," "Alaska, Land of Gold and Glacier," "Great Northern Atlas," "Valley, Plain and Peak," "Canada, Our Great Northern Neighbor," "Masters of Life," "Book of Years," etc. He is a member of the National Geographical Society, the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In 1870 Mr. Folsom was united in marriage with Miss Mary S. Waynick, of Chariton, Iowa, and they are the parents of one son, Robert.

A well deserved tribute and appreciation of what he has done is the following, quoted from the Florida Real Estate Journal and Industrial Record of Miami:

"Mr. Folsom is secretary of the State Marketing Bureau, which is the means by which he staves off the wolf. That which he is most devoted to is writing about Florida. For this he gets nothing but praise, such as this. Certainly he deserves a more substantial reward, for he has been worth more to Florida in aiding its development than can be estimated in dollars.

"Mr. Folsom has held many responsible positions and has written several books. His has been an active and a useful life. He is getting along in years, up somewhere above the alloted span, but he keeps pegging away, and the pegs upon which he hangs his Florida stories are accurately driven. He conducts a column in the afternoon paper of Jacksonville, in which he prints daily a Florida Fact. This is the most quoted feature printed in any Florida paper."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BARNES, M. D. Besides the time he has given to the Florida State Hospital at Chattachooche as assistant physician Doctor Barnes has been prominent as a private practitioner and has made himself one of the most prominent influences working for the civic and material advancement of his section of the state. He is a native of Florida, born on a plantation near Monticello in Jefferson County, February 28, 1877. His father, Benjamin F. Barnes, Sr., was

born at Madison, North Carolina, in 1843, and died at Monticello, Florida, in 1920. His mother, Deliah A. Gilbert, was born in Jefferson County, Florida, where her father, R. M. Gilbert, was one of the first settlers. Benjamin F. Barnes became a large landowner in Jefferson County, and operated a plantation with cotton gins and water mills. He was a deacon in the Baptist Church.

Doctor Barnes spent his boyhood on a farm, acquired a country school education, attended the high school at Monticello, and spent two years, 1895-96 and 1895-97, in the South Florida Military and Educational Institute. In 1897 he began the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, spent two years there and one year in the University of Maryland, and received his M. D. degree in 1901 from the Marion Sims College of Medicine in St. Louis. Doctor Barnes returned to Monticello in June, 1901, and was in general practice there two years, and in 1903 removed to Chattahoochee. He continued general practice until 1910, when he was appointed the first assistant physician to the Florida State Hospital. He resigned this post in October, 1914, and resumed his practice at Chattahoochee. He again became assistant physician at the State Hospital in December, 1921.

Doctor Barnes is owner of the River Junction Drug Store. While at Monticello he served as secretary of the Jefferson County Medical Society, and is now a member of the Gadsden-Leon County Medical Society, the Florida State and American Medical associations. He was actively interested in the Red Cross and other movements during the World war. In Masonry he is a past master of Gee Lodge No. 21, F. and A. M., past high priest of Gadsden Chapter No. 30, R. A. M., at present is senior warden of DeMolay Commandery, K. T., U. D., a member of Morocco Temple of the Mystic Shrine since 1908, and for two years served as district deputy grand master for Gadsden, Liberty and Franklin counties.

In the interval between his services with the State Hospital Doctor Barnes was local physician for the Louisville & Nashville, Seaboard Atlantic Coast Line and the Apalachicola Northern Railroads. He was instrumental in incorporating the town of River Junction, and has served as its mayor. He has been active in politics, serving on the executive committee for Gadsden County in the Third Congressional District. He has been chairman of his school district for over ten years. He was closely associated with others in the movement to secure Gadsden County's cooperation in the issue of bonds for the building of the Victory Bridge over the Chattahoochee River, one of the finest bridges in the state. Doctor Barnes is a director of the Gadsden County Chamber of Commerce, and is a man ever ready to enlist his support in every constructive movement. His recreation usually takes the form of hunting.

In 1903, at River Junction, he married Miss Lena Johnson, a native of Gadsden County, and daughter of J. H. Johnson, now deceased, who was a farmer near Mount Pleasant. Doctor and Mrs. Barnes have three children, Mary Olivia, Benjamin F., Jr., and Marjorie.

ULYSSES WILLIAM IVERSEN was for many years a successful business man in Wisconsin, but for a dozen years past has been identified with the community of Lakeland, and has proved himself one of the able and constructive minded citizens of this locality. He is manager and active head of one of the leading land and real estate organizations here.

He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 21, 1870. His father was a native of Milwaukee and his mother of New York, and he was the second in their family of four sons and four daughters. Mr. Iversen was reared at Milwaukee, graduated from the high school of that city, also from Marquette University and from St. John's Military Academy of Delafield, Wisconsin. He acquired this liberal education as a result of determined effort on his part. He began earning his own living at the age of fourteen, and he paid practically all the expenses of his higher education.

Mr. Iversen spent about twenty-seven years in the service of one firm, the Milwaukee Moulding Company. He started as a common laborer, sweeping the floors and doing other menial tasks, and he fitted himself for responsibilities in successive order until eventually he was made manager and then secretary and treasurer of the company. A visit of investigation to Florida in 1910 convinced him of the wonderful possibilities of this Southern state, and he soon permanently located at Lakeland. Mr. Iversen conducted a very profitable business as a truck grower for several years, and since selling out that business has been a leader in the real estate field. He buys and sells property, partly with his own capital and partly on a brokerage basis, and is a man of extensive experience and well equipped as an adviser on all matters connected with real estate in this section of Florida.

In 1897 he married Miss Susa M. Fletcher. She was born and reared in England, and her father was a native of France. Mr. Iversen is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the Rotary Club, and while living in Wisconsin took an active interest in politics.

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER. One of the substantial and admirably directed financial institutions that lend to the industrial and commercial prestige and solidity of Hillsborough County is the Bank of Plant City, of which Mr. Schneider is the president and the policies of which he has ordered along progressive but duly conservative lines.

Mr. Schneider was born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of June, 1864, and is a son of John W. and Catherine (Bader) Schneider, both of whom were born in Germany but both of whom were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families to the United States, where settlement was made in the State of Pennsylvania. In the public schools of his native city William Schneider continued his studies until he had profited by the discipline of the high school, and thereafter he took a course in a leading business college in Philadelphia. Mr. Schneider continued his residence in the old Keystone State until 1888, when, at the age of twentyfour years, he came to Florida and became associated with his brothers in the fruit business at Sanford, Seminole County. Later he became connected with the Warnell Lumber & Veneer Company at Plant City, and as vice president of this important industrial corporation he continued his effective service until 1920, when a reorganization took place and the present title of the Exchange Supply Company was adopted. Mr. Schneider became a stockholder and director of the Bank of Plant City at the time of its organization in 1907, has been influential in the upbuilding of the solid institution, and is now its president. Appreciative of the advantages and attractions of the state in which he has achieved large and worthy success, Mr. Schneider shows this in his loyal and liberal citizenship and his deep interest in all that

concerns the welfare of his home city and county. He has done much to raise the standard of the public schools in Hillsborough County through twenty-five years of effective service as chairman of the County Board of Education. He was an indefatigable worker in the movement which led to the erection of the present and modern high school building at Plant City, and has aided also in the erection of other excellent school buildings both in his home city and in other parts of the county. He is now chairman of the Board of Trustees of Plant City, and in his civic attitude he is most loyal and progressive, a man who is ever ready to lend influence and practical cooperation in the advancing of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community.

He and his wife are zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in their home city, and he is serving as an elder in the same. He is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.

In the year 1887 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Schneider and Miss Lydia Martha Horting, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and they have one child, Josephine H., who is the wife of Bennett Land, Jr., of Plant City.

ALBERT HAYNE WALKER. During a period of twenty years Dr. Albert Hayne Walker has been identified with the Florida State School for the Deaf and the Blind, and in this period has been the prime mover in the many improvements and advancements made in the institution. During the first four years he was principal of the educational department, and during the last sixteen years he has been president of the school, to which and its wards he has extended the benefits of ripened experience, real understanding and profound sympathy, together with scientific knowledge and talents inherited from worthy and capable forbears.

Doctor Walker was born March 27, 1870, at Spartanburg, South Carolina, and is a son of Dr. N. F. and Virginia (Eppes) Walker. His father is also a native of Spartanburg and his mother of Laurens, South Carolina, and they now make their home at Cedar Spring, that state, where is located the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind, of which Dr. N. F. Walker is president, being ably assisted by his son, William Laurens, who has charge of the active management of the institution. The Rev. Newton Pinckney Walker, paternal grandfather of Dr. Albert H. Walker, was the founder of this school, the twelfth of its kind in the United States. He was a native of South Carolina and in early life a clergyman of the Baptist faith. He married Martha L. Hughston, and it was through a brother of his wife, John Marion Hughston, that his attention was called to the fate of the deaf and dumb. This brother (who eventually reached the age of eighty years and passed away Thanksgiving Day, 1912), had been deaf from birth, and the Reverend Walker, having decided to educate him, equipped himself for the task by attending the only state school for the deaf and blind then in existence, located at Hartford, Connecticut, where he acquainted himself with the methods there pursued and on his return commenced giving instructions to the lad. not long ere other pupils came to attend the lessons, and the class, once founded, grew rapidly in numbers. The state, recognizing the importance of Rev. Pinckney Walker's endeavors, established its first institution and made him its

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