George A. Carleton was educated in the Groton High School, and as a youth learned the carpenter's trade. Along with the practical work of building contracting he has studied and acquired a broad knowledge of the architectural profession, and he plans many of the houses he builds. Mr. Carleton is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Miami, and is president of the Örmond Yacht Club. He has built a number of boats, and is a skillful pilot and sailor as well.

J. MORGAN FENNELL. One of the men of Florida of notable financial importance is J. Morgan Fennell, vice president of the Florida Bank & Trust Company of Gainesville, and identified also with a number of other large and important business enterprises. He was born on his father's farm in Alachua County, Florida, August 22, 1880, and is the only surviving son of John and Celia (Granger) Fennell. The Granger family came to Alachua County, Florida, at a very early day from South Carolina.

John Fennell was born in Georgia, January 3, 1842, and died on his farm in Alachua County, on which he had lived for seventy-four years, in 1921. His father, James Fennell, spent his life in Georgia, where he was an extensive planter and large slaveholder. John Fennell took part in the Indian war in 1857-58, a private in Captain Hill's company in the First Florida Mounted Volunteers. He participated also in the war between the states, being active in the Confederate cause, but after the war was over was until seventeen years old gave his father assistequally active in reconstruction work and became a sterling citizen. He followed agricultural pursuits all his life, and very successfully, and gave generous support to schools and churches.

J. Morgan Fennell obtained his education in the common schools in Campville District, and ance on the home farm. The limitations of farm life, however, did not satisfy his ambitions, and when the opportunity was presented he came to Gainesville and accepted a clerical position in the First National Bank of this city, and since then to the present has been continuously identified with the banking business.

In May, 1910, Mr. Fennell became one of the organizers of the Florida National Bank of Gainesville, of which he became cashier, and in 1916 also vice president, and since 1920 has been active vice president. On August 22, 1922, the Florida National Bank became the Florida Bank & Trust Company, bringing into the financial field the greatest aggregation of capital of any financial institution between Jacksonville and Tampa. Mr. Fennell directs its policy, which is the most progressive in this section of the state, but his long experience has given him financial wisdom and his business sagacity is unquestioned. He was one of the organizers and is vice president of the Citizens Bank of Dunellon, is a director in the United States Trust Company of Jacksonville, and is treasurer and a director in the Tampa-Jacksonville Railroad Company. Since 1922 he has been a member of the Executive Council of the Florida State Bankers Association.

At Gainesville, Florida, in September, 1911, Mr. Fennell married Mrs. Nellie (Redding) Jackson, who was born at Greenville, Florida, and they have one daughter, Ida Stripling Fennell. The father of Mrs. Fennell, the late T. J. Redding, who died in 1921, was one of the foremost citizens of Greenville and Madison County, an extensive land owner, a leading merchant and

organizer and president of the Greenville Bank. Mrs. Fennell is prominent in social life, active in the Twentieth Century Club, in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

In political life Mr. Fennell is a democrat, but not unduly active in the political field, for neither public nor social life are as interesting to him as business affairs. He belongs to the Rotary Club and the Gainesville Golf and Country Club, and takes his recreation in the quiet, sane way in which he conducts his business. He is very much in earnest in favoring the substantial development of his county and state, and many worthy enterprises have received encouragement from him.

MACON THORNTON. One of the oldest business men of Ormond and Ormond Beach, Macon Thornton is a former member of the Legislature and former mayor, and has been a resident of Florida for over thirty years.

He was born at Brownsville, Tennessee, November 5, 1866, member of a prominent family of old Virginia and Western Tennessee. His father, Dr. Burwell Thornton, was a native of North Carolina, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine in Brownsville, Tennessee, until his death in 1870, when about forty years of age.

Macon Thornton was reared and spent his boyhood in Brownsville, and attended the Webb Brothers private school and the McTyere School at McKenzie, Tennessee. He also acquired part of his education in the University of Tennessee. In 1885 he became an employe of a drug business at Brownsville, and in 1891 came to Florida and was associated with a drug house at Jacksonville until 1898, when he established a drug store at Ormond. Later he moved his home to Ormond Beach, and conducted stores in both places for twelve years. His business is now confined to the beach.

Mr. Thornton served two terms as mayor of Ormond, and was a member of the Legislature in 1909. He has been president of the State Pharmaceutical Association, vice president of the Florida Association of Postmasters, was county chairman of the War Savings Committee during the World war and was county chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. On October 10, 1895, he married Mary Catherine Roberts, of Nashville, Tennessee. Her grandfather was founder of the great newspaper, the Nashville American. Her father, Eugene Roberts, was business manager of that paper for eighteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Thornton have one son, Burwell, a graduate of the law department of the Florida State University and who during the World war was with the Service Supplies Department in France a year and with the Army of Occupation in Coblenz and Luxemburg. He returned as a sergeant. He is now associated with Kay, Adams & Ragland Corporation, attorneys at Jacksonville, Florida.

CHARLES H. CAMPBELL, JR., is a veteran automobile man in Florida. He entered the business as one of the first dealers, was a participant in the famous racing meets at Daytona Beach, and for a number of years he has been the authorized Ford agent at De Land. Mr. Campbell owns what is asserted by competent judges to be the finest garage in Florida.

He was born at Sanford, Florida, June 2, 1886, son of C. H. and Virginia D. (Smith) Campbell.

His grandfather, David Campbell, was an attorney by profession, one of the prominent members of the bar of Jacksonville, and an ex-confederate soldier. C. H. Campbell, Sr., was born in Georgia, and was a child when his parents located at Jacksonville. He became a traveling salesman, and established his home at Sanford before the railroad was constructed. For many years he was on the road for John G. Christopher, and was widely known among business men as Uncle Charlie. He conducted the Valdez Hotel at Sanford, and conducted the Montezuma at the time of his death in 1922, on October 3rd. He was also a pioneer in celery culture in Florida. Fraternally he was a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had two children, Charles H., Jr., and Irene. The latter is the wife of Captain Hugh Elmendorf, of the Aviation Corps who saw service on the battle front in France, and is now stationed at Ellington Field in Texas.

Charles H. Campbell, Jr., was educated in Sanford, and for a time pursued the law course in John B. Stetson University of De Land. He left school to engage in the automobile business in 1909. Mr. Campbell has always been interested in sports, and while in college played quarterback on the football team and as catcher for the baseball team. He established the first automobile service between De Land, Lake Helen and Orange City, and this was the first motor transportation line in Volusia County, and his equipment to start with consisted of an ancient Cadillac and a Reo car. In 1916 he became Ford agent for this district, and he is also interested in the Ford agency at Daytona. His handsome garage was only recently completed.

Mr. Campbell has been active in the civic affairs of De Land, has served as a member of the Council and is the present mayor, having been elected to that office in 1920. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks, is a member of the Commercial Club, and he and his wife belong to the First Baptist Church. He married in 1913 Crystal Davis, daughter of Doctor G. A. Davis, of De Land. They have one son, Charles D.

GEORGE AUGUSTUS DREKA. One of the most notable careers in the business life of Florida has been that of George Augustus Dreka, the veteran merchant of De Land, the oldest man in active business in that city, he having opened a store there in 1878. He has always exemplified a high degree of progressive spirit, keeping his business in advance of the growth of this splendid city, and he now has one of the largest and most complete department stores in the state.

Mr. Dreka was born at Sassafras in Kent County, Maryland, on the Eastern shore, Novemher 18, 1857, son of Augustus and Theresa Dreka. His father was eighteen years of age when with two brothers he came from Germany to escape the Prussian military system. His wife, Theresa, came over from the old country when about the same age, and they were married in Maryland and lived in that state most of their years. After retiring from business August Dreka moved to Washington, D. C. He had learned the miller's trade in Germany, and in Kent County, Maryland, he built a flour mill, which he operated for a long period of years. He was well educated, a constant reader, did much to shape public opinion in his locality and was an active democrat. He was a member of no church, while his wife was a Catholic. She died at the age of seventy. Augustus Dreka at the time of his death was the oldest member of the Odd Fellows in Eastern

Maryland. Of the two brothers that accompanied him one went to the California gold fields and the other established himself in Philadelphia, where his son is now head of the great engraving and stationery company that bears the family name. George A. Dreka is one of three living children. His sister, Eva T., is living at Washington, widow of the late Godfrey Kilkoff, of De Land. L. H. Dreka is still operating the Dreka Mills in Kent County, Maryland.

George Augustus Dreka acquired a technical training in manufacturing and mechanical lines in the Rock Hill College at Ellicott, Maryland, then Ellicott City. He left there at the age of twenty, and in 1878, when a young man of twentyone, arrived in Florida. At that time less than half a dozen families had established their homes at De Land. The Jordans had previously opened a store, but had given up the business, and Mr. Dreka undertook to supply the only mercantile facilities of the community. That pioneer store was located on what is now Indiana Avenue, on the present site of the Volusia County Bank. Four years later he moved to the present location of the business, Woodland Boulevard and New York Avenue. In 1882 a two-story frame building was built here, and in 1885 it was enlarged to four stories, the upper part being occupied by the Carrollton Hotel. The building that now houses the G. A. Dreka and Company is of reinforced concrete and is a combination store and office building, erected in 1909. Mr. Dreka in 1921 erected the Dreka Theatre. His active partner for a number of years in G. A. Dreka and Company was his brother-in-law, Godfrey Kilkoff, and the active partners now are his sons. The business is still continued as G. A. Dreka and Company.

His successful record as a merchant has its counterpart in the enterprise and public spirit he has displayed in every matter affecting the community at large. He was a member of the City Council when the ordinance was passed to remit taxation on city property in proportion to the number of shade trees planted on the parkways. While the town treasury suffered from this ordinance, it resulted in stimulating tree planting until De Land is one of the most beautiful cities in the state. Mr. Dreka is chairman of the Bond Trustees of De Land and Lake Helen Special Road and Bridge District. He has been an earnest worker in behalf of a bond issue for paving, sanitary sewage and increased water facilities. At one time he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Volusia County Bank, and is one of the governors of the Commercial Club. For a great many years he has been interested in orange culture, has owned a number of groves, and now has one in Huntoon Island in St. Johns River.

In 1884 Mr. Dreka married Katharine Malsberger, daughter of Augustus Malsberger, of Kent County, Maryland. She died in 1897, and is survived by three children. August F., the oldest son, is now a shoe merchant of Atlanta, Georgia. Jerome G. is manager of G. A. Dreka and Company. George Raymond is manager of the Piggly Wiggly Store at De Land. The son, Raymond, served with the Naval Reserves and was on duty a year and a half during the World war, first stationed at Charleston and then at Berkeley, near Norfolk, Virginia.

In 1901 Mr. Dreka married Mrs. Anna Eliza Hixon, daughter of Philip N. Bryan, of_New Smyrna, Florida, where she was born. Mr. Dreka is a Catholic.