and equally appreciative statements: "Judge Haughton lived a quiet and unobtrusive but useful life. He was a man of strong convictions and he had the courage of his convictions. A talented lawyer, a just judge and an exemplary Christian, his death was a sad loss to the community in which he lived." He bore with characteristic fortitude and patient poise the physical infirmities and the suffering of his later years, and in this period the sublimated qualities of the man found their perfect exemplification.

On the 21st of December, 1848, was solemnized the marriage of Judge Haughton and Miss Elizabeth Moseley, eldest daughter of Hon. William D. Moseley, Florida's first governor after its admission to statehood, the nuptial ceremony having occurred at Moseley Hall, the fine old homestead of the bride's parents in Jefferson County, this state. After his marriage Judge Haughton returned to North Carolina, where he continued in the practice of his profession until 1852, when he established his permanent residence in Florida, as noted in a preceding paragraph. Of Governor Moseley a memorial tribute is entered in the sketch following. The gracious and cultured young gentlewoman who thus became the wife of Judge Haughton continued as his cherished and devoted companion and helpmeet until the close of his life, and she survived him a number of years, sustained and comforted by the gracious memories of their ideal companionship, as well as by the filial love and solicitude of her children and the affectionate regard of a wide circle of friends. Judge Haughton was survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. O. Woltz, and by five sons: William M., Malachi, Alexander M., Joseph H. and Matthew H. His name and memory rest secure in the annals of Florida history, which he honored and dignified by his character and his achievement.

WILLIAM D. MOSELEY. Conspicuous among those strong and resourceful men who have honored the State of Florida by their lives and services was the late Hon. William D. Moseley, who had the distinction of being elected the first governor of this commonwealth after its admission to statehood.

At fine old Moseley Hall, the family homestead in the State of North Carolina, William D. Moseley was born and reared to manhood, and in the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, he was graduated as a member of the same class as was James K. Polk, who later became president of the United States. He became a citizen of prominence and influence in his native state prior to his removal to Florida, as evidenced by his having served nine years as a member of the State Senate of North Carolina. There are available but limited data concerning the details of the career of Governor Moseley, but the following record will measurably indicate the great service which he rendered to the state of his adoption.

The first state election in Florida was held on the 26th of May, 1845, and the result of the same placed William D. Moseley in the executive chair as first governor of the new commonwealth. As may well be understood, his administration was marked by heavy responsibilities and much work of a constructive order. Within his regime much public land in the state was sold and there ensued a steady increase in the population of Florida. Much interest was manifested in the providing of adequate educational advantages, and in this

important work the Governor took a leading part. In his message to the Legislature of the new state he urged the establishing of schools and seminaries, especially the common schools "that should bring instruction to every man's door." It was in the first year of his administration that the state capitol was completed, the corner stone of the same having been laid, under the territorial government, twenty years previously. The Governor also took prompt action in connection with Indian affairs in the state, and in this connection the following quotations are worthy of perpetuation:

"There were now several hundred Indians in the state, 150 of whom could bear arms. Though so few in numbers, it was remembered that in the Seminole war a great harm had been done by small bands of Indians when our forces were in the field. Citizens, especially those near the Indian reservation, did not feel that life or property were safe, for the Indians did not confine themselves to their prescribed limits but would make excursions into neighboring counties, sometimes as far as 100 miles. One of these outbreaks occurred in 1849 and was promptly suppressed by the action of the Governor in sending state troops to quell the outbreak."

The department of general history in this publication gives further information concerning Governor Moseley and his effective administration, and that he was "not without honor in his own country" found noteworthy evidence in the year 1908, when his native state of North Carolina, through its Legislature, appointed a committee to there create a new county from territory drawn from Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties, and to give to the new county the name of Moseley, as a tribute to this distinguished native son.

The death of Governor Moseley occurred at Palatka, Florida, in 1862, at the home of his daughter Elizabeth, wife of the late Judge T. S. Haughton, to whom a memoir is dedicated in the preceding sketch of this volume.

MAJ. GEORGE RAINSFORD FAIRBANKS. In an age that is decidedly commercial, it is refreshing to record the names of a few whose lives were spent in scholarly pursuits, and whose pleasures centered in deep and productive studies. Such men in dying leave behind them work which will stimulate others to follow in their footsteps and emulate their example. There are few who have either the inclination or ability to devote themselves, their talents and their years to the writing of history, but Florida claims one who measured up to the highest standards of literary production and historic accuracy, and uses in her public schools his history of the state and of the Antiquities of Saint Augustine as standard books of reference. This honored historian and noble gentleman of the old school of the South, Maj. George Rainsford Fairbanks, has passed to his last reward, having written finis on the page of his life history many years ago, but his books live after him, and his descendants, among whom one of note is his grandson, Dr. Horace Rainsford Drew of Jacksonville, carry out in their lives the lessons taught by his fine character and praiseworthy work. Major Fairbanks was born at Watertown, New York, July 5, 1820, and he was educated in his native state, securing his degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at Union College, Schenectady. Following the

completion of his literary training he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1842.

Soon after securing his admission to the legal profession Major Fairbanks moved to Saint Augustine, Florida, and received the appointment of clerk of the United States District Court, and held that office until 1846, when he retired from it and took up the practice of the law, remaining in it until 1859. In the latter year he moved to Tallahassee and spent a year in the state capitol, leaving it to accept the offer of a trusteeship of the University of the South at Sewanee, Ten

nessee.

Scarcely had he become settled in what was very congenial work when the war cloud burst, involving the North and the South in war, and he, although of Northern birth, had lived too long in the South to ignore its claims, so he enlisted in the Army of the Confederacy, serving in it with the rank of a major of the quartermaster department. With the defeat of the cause he held so close to his heart Major Fairbanks began to devote more of his attention to his historical researches, and returned to the University of the South, which he served as treasurer until 1880, when he resigned and moved to Fernandina, but he continued to maintain a summer home at Sewanee, and there he died in 1906, aged eighty-six years. He was a member of the Upper House of the State Assembly of Florida during 1846 and 1847, was a presidential elector in 1848, and in 1857 served as mayor of Saint Augustine. All his life Major Fairbanks was a close student of the masterpieces of English, and his conversation and writings were tinged with lofty thoughts of a spiritual tone. His character was broad and sweet, and his influence for good upon the young was markedly strong and always directed upward.

COLUMBUS DREW, SR. In every community, whether great or small, there are to be found families whose members have had a determining influence upon its history, and whose wholehearted and public-spirited efforts have brought about the changes which have resulted in the development of the place. Perhaps no name is associated with more constructive work than that of Drew, and among those bearing it was Columbus Drew, who founded the family at Jacksonville in 1848.

Columbus Drew was born of English parents, natives of Cornwall, England, who established themselves in the United States during the early part of the last century. Columbus Drew spent his boyhood and early manhood at Washington City, and quite early in his career became proofreader on the National Intelligencer, one of the most famous journals of its times, owned and edited by Gales and Seaton. Rising in newspaper work, by 1847 he was one of the editors of the American, which brought him into intimate touch with the leading men of the nation, and it was through his friendship with Congressman E. Carrington Cabell, then representing Florida in the National Assembly as a whig candidate, that in 1848 he was induced to come to the state and take charge of the Florida Republican, the leading journal of the whig party in Florida. Mr. Drew was himself an ardent supporter of whig principles, and a very convincing and forceful writer, and his editorials awakened a wide-spread interest and aroused bitter controversies.

In 1855 Mr. Drew went into business for him

self, establishing the book and job printing house now known as the H. & W. B. Drew Company. A man of wide vision and keen intelligence, he stood with Governor Call and other leaders of the whig party against secession and the dismemberment of the American Union, but when Florida joined the Confederacy he went with his people and was loyal to the South. Because of his great business ability, the administration offered him a position at Richmond, and he was connected with the treasury department in a responsible capacity during the greater part of the war. Although he had been sincere in his work for the Confederacy, after the fall of that government he was equally determined to give the best of himself to the re-United States, and during the dark days of the reconstruction period was of great service in the political and financial redemption of Florida. Like the other states of the Confederacy, Florida faced many difficulties after the close of the war.

The credit of the state both at home and abroad was gone, and the obligations were staggering, and but little progress was made until the election of a democratic ticket in 1876, when Governor George F. Drew, a Union man of Northern birth, was placed in office. While he belonged to another section, he was a man of high ideals and had a broad outlook on life, and through him and the cabinet he appointed Florida began her return to the position which is rightly hers among the leading states of the Union. Perhaps no appointment gave more universal satisfaction than that of Columbus Drew to the office of comptroller. Mr. Drew was no connection of Governor Drew, although they bore the same honored name, but both worked in unison for the greatest weal of the state each had adopted as his own, and the results were magnificent. Mr. Drew's duties were onerous and manifold. He it was whose duty it became to audit the accounts, to separate the wheat from the chaff, to turn down unjust claims, to devise means of paying the just ones, to look after the collection of taxes and to guard the treasury. That he ably discharged them all, and that he shared with the governor and the other members of the cabinet the great work accomplished for Florida by that administration, is a matter of history, and his part in it will always stand to his everlasting credit.

Columbus Drew possessed a nature that was gentle, affable and unaffected, and he was loved by all who had the honor of his acquaintance. An incessant reader, he kept himself abreast of the best thought of his times, and was himself a contributor of note to magazines, and an art critic of a high order. He was a poet whose verse showed genius, his productions went the rounds of the American Press. One which is known all over the South was written after the blockade of Southern ports was effected, when the Confederacy was unable to buy cloth to clothe the soldiers, and was without factories, or spindles to spin, or looms to weave it, and the spinning wheels of another generation were brought out of the attics and used. The first verse of this rhythmic, swinging poem is as follows:

"Out of the garret, out of the barn
Summoned am I to my duty;
Long set aside with my lusterless yarn,
Robbed of my fabric of beauty.

I'm summoned to come with a whir and a hum,
With a voice like the flying of chaff
From some mighty machine that the grain may
be clean,-

'Tis but me and my mighty distaff."

Columbus Drew continued to be a living force at Jacksonville until his demise in 1891, and with his passing from the scenes of his former activities, a truly good man went to his Maker, and Florida lost one of its most worthy and useful citizens.

HORACE RAINSFORD DREW, M. D. Connected with the medical profession of his native city, Dr. Horace Rainsford Drew is entitled to a prominent position among the leading men of Jacksonville, where his family has long been established, and where his father and grandfather have made the name a notable one. Dr. Drew is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, and has been equally useful in times of peace. He was born at Jacksonville, July 6, 1876, a son of Horace and Gertrude (Fairbanks) Drew, and belongs through his mother to another highly esteemed Southern family, a record of which will be found in the biography of Maj. George Rainsford Fairbanks, his maternal grandfather, elsewhere in this work.

Horace Drew was born at Jacksonville, January 20, 1854, and received his educational training in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, from which he was graduated with the class of 1875. Returning to Jacksonville, he went into the business his father, Columbus Drew, had founded, now known as the H. & W. B. Company, one of the largest printing and stationery houses of the South. As was but natural, the young man entered upon the cares of business life with hearty enthusiasm, and gave so much of himself to it, and his other interests which kept on multiplying, that by the time he had reached the age of sixty he found that he would have to make a decided change in his manner of living or be forced to retire from all activities. To a man of his temperament such a course was practically impossible, and so he sought advice, and within a few years has become a vital force in his community, finding in public service and civic helpfulness the relaxation he needed, and the interest he felt he must have in order to enjoy life. He has made himself felt in commercial organization, civic bodies, and, entering the city administration, assumed a leadership for younger men, bringing them out of their offices and selves to put their shoulders to the wheel and push forward for the good of Jacksonville and her development.

For years Mr. Drew had been a member of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, but was, to quote his own words, "like many other men who never darken its door." He was also a member of the Rotary Club, but very rarely attended its meetings. It was with the latter body that Mr. Drew commenced his new plan of giving less time to his office and more to an out-of-doors program. The Rotary Club had just taken up the project of pushing competition for the Military Service Club in time for the National Rifle Matches of 1915, and Mr. Drew became so interested in this work that he determined to see if there were not other propositions which the club could successfully promote. From then on he has been back of all of the constructive work of this organization, of which he is a director; he is a governor of the

Chamber of Commerce, first vice president of the Tourist and Convention Bureau, president of the Business Men's Club, and a member of the park commission, which was created through his efforts. In all of these bodies his influence is felt, and never has he failed to take the leadership when the opportunity came, and it is a leadership which springs from his natural desire to help Jacksonville and her organizations, rather than from any personal desire to get ahead of others or to assume undue authority. Mr. Drew is a firm believer in the processes of "contact and cooperation" with men and their ambitions as a means to effective accomplishment. Since he has come out into the open and taken upon himself this arduous work of leadership he has become one of the best known and liked of citizens, and the results he has reached are remarkable and farreaching. Not only has he accomplished much himself, but he has also been able to secure from others a whole-hearted cooperation which is stimulating and gratifying.

Gertrude Fairbanks Drew, mother of Doctor Drew, died in 1885, having borne her husband five sons, two of whom died in infancy, three living to maturity. Of them all Doctor Drew was the eldest born. Horace Drew married Mary Hodson on February 26, 1895. She was born in Dorchester, Maryland, a daughter of Eugene and Celesta (Bromwell) Hodson. Eugene Hodson was born at Washington, District of Columbia, and his wife was a native of Baltimore, Maryland. They had five children, four of whom survive, of whom Mrs. Drew was the third in order of birth. After a residence of some years at Baltimore Mr. Hodson moved to the eastern shore of Maryland, in Dorchester County. By his second marriage Mr. Drew had two children, namely: Margaret, who married R. O. Grover, and they have three children, Margaret D., Martha and Francis Merritt; and Eugene, who married Jessie Seiver DeBelle.

Doctor Drew attended his father's alma mater, the University of the South, and it was while he was pursuing his studies in that institution that war was declared between this country and Spain. He immediately volunteered for service and was made sergeant of Company E, First Florida Infantry. After the close of the war he received his honorable discharge and, returning to the university, completed his studies there, receiving from its medical department his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1901. Coming back to Jacksonville, he entered upon the general practice of his profession, and maintains offices in the St. James Building. During the more than a score of years he has been in practice he has built up a very large and valuable connection, and is recognized as one of the most skilled and experienced men of his profession in Duval County. A strong believer in the value of medical societies, he maintains membership in the county, state and national organizations, and is active in all of them. While he is a firm adherent of the democratic party, he has never sought for political preferment, but contented himself with doing his duty at the polls.

On June 28, 1916, Doctor Drew was united in marriage with Louise Phillips, born at Danville, Kentucky. They have one son, Horace Rainsford, Junior. Doctor Drew is a man of high ideals, and lives up to the finest conceptions of professional and civic duty. His skill as a physician is unquestioned, and personally he commands the confidence and respect of all with whom he is in