Institute, which has an enrollment of about 1,200 students. He has served as scout master of Boy Scouts.

ANDREW S. MCKILLOP has lived in Florida nearly forty years, throughout that time has been active in business, and is especially well known as a merchant in Polk County. At the present time he is a banker and real estate man at Mulberry.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 18, 1866, elder of the two sons of John H. and Kate McKillop. His parents were born, reared and married in Scotland, where the father died and the family came to America, settling in Georgia. The younger son, James H., resides at Homeland in Polk County, Florida.

Andrew McKillop grew up in Georgia, attended a private school there, and at the age of sixteen began doing for himself. He was a farmer and cotton grower, and in 1884 came to Florida and took up the orange industry at Homeland, Polk County. He still owns the groves in that locality. In the meantime he took up merchandising at Homeland, and in 1905 established a general store at Mulberry, and continued a profitable business in that line until 1914. Since that year he has conducted an office for fire insurance and real estate, and otherwise gives his time to the management of his property interests in Polk County. Mr. McKillop was formerly president of the Citizens Bank of Mulberry, and when that was consolidated with the Bank of Mulberry he became and remained vice president of the latter institution.

In 1900 Mr. McKillop married Miss Jennie Lee Wilson, a native of Georgia. They have one daughter, Slaton. Mr. and Mrs. McKillop are members of the Methodist Church.

In public affairs of the community Mr. McKillop has taken an active part, serving eight years as mayor of Mulberry, ten years as a member of the City Council, and even longer as a member of the School Board.

D. A. MAYFIELD. Steady application to the development of an idea has advanced D. A. Mayfield from the status of a journeyman workman to that of the co-proprietor of one of Jacksonville's leading plumbing establishments, operated under the business style of Mayfield & Needham. A resident of Jacksonville since 1907, he has become known in business circles, and particularly in the plumbing trade, through his connection with several successful enterprises, and his standing is that of a master of his calling and a business man of sound integrity.

Mr. Mayfield was born October 6, 1866, in Kentucky, and is a son of Doctor Mayfield, who followed the profession of medicine in the Blue Grass state for many years, but finally moved with his family to Jacksonville. Of the two children, D. A. is the only survivor. He received his education in the public schools of Jacksonville, and as a youth became apprenticed to the trade of plumber, which he followed for some years as a journeyman in various parts of the country. In 1907 he returned to Jacksonville and became superintendent of the plumbing concern of Koons & Sholer, a connection which he maintained until 1915. At that time he embarked in business on his own account and conducted his establishment alone until the present partnership with Joseph Needham, under the firm style of Mayfield & Needham, was formed. The concern has a large and up-to-date plumbing establishment at No. 115 East Forsyth Street, where they are fully equipped to do anything

in the line of plumbing and heating. They make a specialty of marine work, which is an important feature of their business. The firm has been found reliable in every respect and now controls a large amount of very desirable business among concerns and individuals. Mr. Mayfield is essentially and primarily a business man and has not sought the honors of public or political office, finding plenty to occupy his time in his business interests, but takes a good citizen's notice of public affairs and lends his support to movements which he deems worthy. He has several fraternal connections and is popular with his associates.

On March 19, 1904, Mr. Mayfield was united in marriage at Jacksonville with Mrs. Durbin, a daughter of C. L. Robeson, one of the early business men of Jacksonville, who during a long career of honorable business activity accumulated a substantial fortune. Of the five children in the Mayfield family two survive: Daniel A., a graduate of the local schools, who is now assisting his father in the plumbing business; and Ada D., who is attending public school.

JOHN HARVEY Ross. Those most actively identified as members and others familiar with the history of the Florida Citrus Exchange, credit Doctor Ross as the moving spirit in its founding and one of the men most vitally interested in its success and in no small degree responsible for the wonderful record of this cooperative marketing institution which has brought untold wealth not only to its members but to the State of Florida as a whole.

Doctor Ross has been a winter resident of Winter Haven, for nearly thirty years, and was soon converted from a winter resident into a permanent sojourner in this land of flowers, fruit and sunshine. Doctor Ross came to Florida from Indiana, where he was a prominent professional man, but he is a native of old Virginia. He was born in Rockingham County that state May 17, 1844, son of Rev. David and Eliza Ann (Whitsell) Ross. His parents were natives of Virginia, and his father was a minister of the United Brethren Church. In 1861 the family moved to Indiana, settling in Vigo County, and three years later moving over the state line into Edgar County, Illinois. Rev. David Ross was a presiding Elder of his church in Indiana and Illinois, and for a number of years was trustee of Westfield College in the latter state. He died at Westfield, July 3, 1879. He had a large family of children, one of whom became a minister of the United Brethren Church, and several others took up the medical profession.

John Harvey Ross was about seventeen when he went to Indiana with his parents. He had in the meantime acquired a good education in the old field schools of Western Virginia and also in a private academy. In 1863 as a youth of nineteen he enlisted for service in the Union army as a member of Company K of the One Hundred and Fifteenth Indiana Infantry. He served during the last two years of the war, and soon after his return from the army began the study of medicine in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Subsequently he entered the St. Louis Medical College, where he was graduated in the spring of 1873.

For over twenty years Doctor Ross had an extensive private practice as a physician and surgeon at Kokomo, Indiana. About 1895 he began coming south to Winter Haven, Florida, for the winters, and several years later he disposed of all his Indiana interests and transferred his year round home to Florida. He acquired an orange

grove a few miles from town, and lived on his country estate until 1921. Doctor Ross is the owner of several orange and grape fruit groves and for a number of years has been a large individual grower.

He not only recognized the heavy handicap imposed upon Florida citrus growers by the ancient methods of marketing, but had the courage to advocate and plan and carry out a plan for cooperative marketing. The success of cooperative marketing as exemplified in the Florida Citrus Exchange has done more than anything else to bring stable conditions into the Florida Citrus industry. In 1909 he assisted in organizing this exchange, a non-profit cooperative organization for marketing citrus fruit. After the first year he was elected a director, and in 1912 he was appropriately honored with the office of president of the exchange. He has held that office now continuously for ten years. Besides guiding the destinies of this association he is identified with a number of affiliated organizations. He is president of the Exchange Supply Company, a cooperative buying company, handling supplies needed by citrus growers. He is vice president of the Snell National Bank at Winter Haven, is president of the Winter Haven Hotel Company, a director of the Florence Citrus Growers Association, of the Lucerne Citrus Growers Association, the Lake Alford Citrus Growers Association, the Growers Loan and Guarantee Company, and is director and vice president of the Florida Growers Publishing Company.

Doctor Ross is also a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, and a member of the International Chamber of Commerce. He married Miss Mary M. Drake, native of New York State. He has two children: Walter H. Ross, a fruit grower living near Winter Haven; and Mrs. John B. Trimmer, whose home is at Hume, in Edgar County, Illinois.

HOMER B. RAINEY. Associated as he has been with the growth and development of Wauchula, Homer B. Rainey is now connected with some of the city's most important enterprises, and is particularly active as vice president and general manager of the Wauchula Development Company. His long association with this company and his knowledge of property values throughout the county make him a strong man in realty circles. His interest, however, is not confined to this one enterprise, for he has invested quite heavily in farm land and orange groves, and belongs, either as a stockholder or official, to a number of the leading concerns of Wauchula.

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Homer B. Rainey was born near Old Ona, in what is now Hardee County, April 18, 1885, a son of Francis B. and Lela B. (Clardy) Rainey, natives of Hamilton County, Florida. ternal grandparents, Joseph and Jane (Alerman) Rainey, were born in Georgia, but came to Florida in 1890. The maternal grandparents, Thomas and Margaret Catherine (Bell) Clardy, were among the very early settlers of Northern Florida. After their marriage, which occurred in Hamilton County, Francis B. Rainey and his wife settled on a farm in that county, and were there engaged in farming and fruit growing until 1883, when they moved to De Soto, now Hardee County. At the time of their arrival they brought with them two horses, one of which they traded for 160 acres of land. They homesteaded, and all of their land was entirely uncultivated with the exception of a fourth of an acre surrounding a log cabin, which housed the family until a start

could be made. Francis B. Rainey was a practical man, and soon saw that his land was adapted to truck farming, and he was the first one to engage in this branch of agriculture in Southern Florida, which now has so many truck farmers. He also set out oranges, and resided on his farm until 1900, when he sold it for $4,000, then considered an excellent price, and bought an orange grove near Wauchula, but for some time has been a resident of Wauchula, where he and his wife have a pleasant and comfortable home. They own 200 acres of orange groves and trucking land, which they have worked. This most excellent couple have been very successful, but they worked hard to reach their present prosperity.

Homer B. Rainey attended the common schools of Old Ona, the Wauchula High School, and Stetson University, being in the latter from 1900 to 1903. Upon his return home he was made assistant postmaster of Wauchula, and served as such until May 15, 1909, at which time he was appointed postmaster, and held the office until August 13, 1913. In the latter year he became agricultural demonstrator for the Wauchula Development Company, and a year later was promoted one of its salesmen. Six months later he became assistant sales manager, and held that position for another half year. For the subsequent year he was sales manager, and still later became general manager, and since 1916 has also been vice president of the company. This company operates the largest exclusively crate factory and the electric light and ice plant, and specialize on building houses for new settlers and locating them on their own land in Hardee County. Mr. Rainey owns forty-four acres of land of bearing orange groves, 200 acres of improved land suitable for trucking and orange growing, and 650 acres of farm land. He is secretary and manager of the Wauchula Investment Company; president of the Synic Highland Citrus Corporation; director of the Wauchula Land & Title Company; member of the firm of Rainey, Roberts & Henderson, fruits and vegetables; and member of the firm of Carler & Harp, fruits and vegetables. All of these enterprises are in a most flourishing condition, and reflect great credit upon the good management and energy of Mr. Rainey.

On December 31, 1915, Mr. Rainey married Miss Marie Jones, a daughter of Elmer T. and Mary M. (Morgan) Jones, natives of Fairmont, West Virginia, where Mrs. Rainey was also born. Mr. and Mrs. Rainey became the parents of the following children: Burton T. and Bonita L. Mr. Rainey is a republican, and has always been very active in local politics. Long a member of the Wauchula Board of Trade, he is now serving as one of its directors. Fraternally he is a Shriner Mason, a Knight of Pythias and Odd Fellow, and he belongs to the Shriners Club. Mr. Rainey has not contented himself at any stage in his career with merely talking favorably about a project. When he is convinced that any project is a worthy one he works hard for it, putting his whole heart and soul into his efforts, and so convincingly sincere is he in all he does that he has but little difficulty in inducing others to join him, and thus it is that he is so potent and constructive a factor in the life of Wauchula and Hardee County.

OSCEOLA O. HUBBARD has been a well known resident of Bartow for a quarter of a century, and for a number of years has been chief engineer and manager of the Mulberry Ice Company.

He was born on a plantation in Randolph County, Alabama, October 25, 1877, son of Joseph and Laura (Dyal) Hubbard. His parents were born at Newnan, Georgia, and his father served throughout the war as a Confederate soldier. Osceola Hubbard was reared and educated in Georgia, and from there came to Florida and located at Bartow in 1898. In 1912 he became chief engineer of the ice plant at Mulberry owned by Edward H. Dudley, and has been practically the head of operations for that company ever since.

In 1901 Mr. Hubbard married Miss Carrie Spence, of Mulberry. They have three children: Joe Fletcher, clerk in a hardware store at Lake Wales, Dorothy and Lawrence Spence. Mr. Hubbard has a commodious home in Mulberry, and takes an interest in civic affairs, though never as a seeker for office. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Elks.

EDWARD H. DUDLEY spent the greater part of his life in Polk County, and for a number of years has been a man of enterprise and civic leadership in the Town of Mulberry, where he is proprietor of the Mulberry Ice Company.

Mr. Dudley was born in South Carolina, September 18, 1876. He was a child when his parents brought him to Florida, and he grew up and received his early education in Bartow. He early became interested in the production of artificial ice, and built the plant at Mulberry and has owned it since 1907. This plant supplies all the ice for the phosphate mines, for the town and for other adjacent localities. Mr. Dudley is also owner of the Fort Meade ice plant.

Mr. Dudley is president of the City Council at Mulberry. His interests include the ownership of some orange groves. He married Miss Pauline Palotte, of Bartow.

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HON. DAVID LEVY YULEE. As United States Senator from Florida the work and influence of David L. Yulee were impressed votally on the critical history of the nation during the years leading up to the war between the states. was one of the most notable figures in the Senate among other statesmen whom history has delighted to honor. While an important figure in national affairs, perhaps his most constructive service was rendered to his home state of Florida where he made possible many of the developments of later years, particularly the building of the first railroads of the state.

He was born in 1810 a British subject on the Island of St. Thomas, West Indies, which when he was five years old was transferred from the ownership of England to Denmark. His grandfather had been a high official in the Emperor of Morocco's court, and held the rank of prince. Upon the death of the emperor whose side he had espoused he was condemned to death and beheaded by the order of the new emperor, but in the meantime contrived to send to England his wife, an English Jewess, and their infant son, together with family jewels that supported them for some years. This son was obliged to go into trade and his mother, who had exaggerated ideas as to the importance of the princely title, inissted upon his dropping the name of Yulee, temporarily, and adopting that of Levy, the name of her own father. He achieved an independent fortune in the lumber business in St. Thomas, and retained the name Levy until his death. It was therefore with complete justice, and also with the approval of his father, that Senator

Yulee eventually resumed the family name, though he did not do this until he had represented Florida territory as a delegate to Congress, under the name David Levy.

At the age of nine he was sent to Norfolk, Virginia, to attend preparatory school, where the boys came from old Virginia families of high social standing. He left this school six years later because his father declined to contribute longer to his support. His father had worked himself into a condition of religious socialism, in line with which this action regarding his sons had been taken. David then went to a plantation owned by his father in Florida and lived with the overseer. By that time he was possessed of a good elementary knowledge, and having a great love of reading, most of his time on the plantation was given to books. He also cultivated the acquaintance of many of the old Spanish and other old families of St. Augustine, including some officials of the Federal Government and other residents from the northern states. With Robert R. Reid, later governor, and a federal judge, he studied law and in this profession was successful from the start. His first public position was as clerk to the Territorial Legislature and in 1841 he made a successful campaign for election as the democratic candidate for territorial delegate. The national House of Representatives at that time contained some of the most brilliant debaters in history. The delegate from Florida made his first favorable impression by his sturdy defense of his eligibility which had been challenged by some of the whigs representing the majority in the house. He was soon drawn into the debates on slavery and for fifteen years was one of the most ardent champions of the cause of the southern states, though he always upheld his side of the contention with an imposing array of logic and facts unmixed with the bitter partisanship and prejudice that characterized so many of the debates of the period. Under the name of David Levy he continued to serve as a delegate to Congress until March 3, 1845.

In the meantime he had been exerting the full power of his growing influence to secure the admission of Florida territory as a state of the Union. He was a delegate to the first State Constitutional Convention, and was elected one of the first United States Senators from Florida, taking his seat in the Senate December 1, 1845. He served a six-year term until March 3, 1851, and on December 3, 1855, again entered the Senate, this term of service continuing until January 21, 1861, when he retired to join the Southern Confederacy.

In the Senate as chairman of the naval committee he labored without partisanship for improvement, and though Florida furnished the live oak for wooden ships, he urged with success the building of iron ones. As head of the committee on postoffices and postroads he urged cheap ocean postage and was the first to propose payment by sea postage alone instead of subsidy. On questions of improving the postal service he often voted alone with the northern senators. If his political convictions were sectional Senator Yulee's personal feelings were not; for no southerners mingled more generally in Washington society than his wife and himself. He had married in 1846 a daughter of ex-Governor Wickliffe, a member of Tyler's cabinet. She was called "The Wickliffe Madonna," according to Mrs. Clay's memoirs, on account of her goodness and beauty.

Senator Yulee saw that if the slave states were not allowed to expand it meant not only complete political paralysis, but what was far worse, their