any way associated, and he is a worthy son of a distinguished father.

EDWARD F. CARTER, M. D. The biographer in writing of men whose names stand high in the records of the medical profession, naturally is attracted toward those who through character and achievement have outdistanced their associates, and borne their part in the upbuilding and development of their home city. Viewed according to this standard Dr. Edward F. Carter, of Tampa, is worthy of much more than passing mention. Identified with the medical profession since 1907, he made a name for himself elsewhere in Florida, prior to his settlement in Tampa in 1920, and since then has justified his reputation for professional ability of a high order and for the individuality of a personal character.

Doctor Carter was born at Atlanta, Georgia, December 11, 1884, a son of Benjamin F. and Hattie B. (Turner) Carter, both natives of Ohio. Benjamin F. Carter was a railroad man, and was regarded as one of the most trusted employes of his road. He and his wife had six children of whom Doctor Carter is the eldest. The preliminary training of Doctor Carter was acquired in the grammar and high schools of his native city, and his professional education in the Medical College of Atlanta, now Emory University, from which he was graduated in 1907, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Subsequently Doctor Carter took up post-graduate work in advanced medicine and surgery, at the New York Polyclinic in the winter of 1910-1911, and again in 1912. Immediately after his graduation he established himself in a general practice at Mulberry, Polk County, Florida. Not only did he rise rapidly in his profession, but he also took a very active part in politics, and served as mayor of Mulberry for two terms. On January 1, 1920, he came to Tampa and since then has been specializing on diseases of children, in which branch he is particularly successful, and prepared for it by courses at New Orleans under Doctor Bloom. A firm believer in the efficacy of concerted action on the part of the medical men, he has long been a member of the different medical organizations, and is now a member of the Hillsborough County Medical Society the Florida State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a Knight Templar and Shriner, belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America, and is deservedly popular in all of these fraternities.

In 1908 Doctor Carter was united in marriage with Miss Clara Lee Webb, a daughter of P. P. Webb, of Atlanta, Georgia. Doctor and Mrs. Carter have four children, namely: Elizabeth, Catherine, Edward and Sarah Frances. The Carters are Baptist in their religious belief and profession, and belong to that denomination. Known over a wide territory, Doctor Carter is recognized as a man of earnest purpose and deep sincerity. He has always maintained a high standard of professional ethics, and no man of Tampa has in larger measure the esteem of his fellows, nor exerts a stronger influence for securing the advancement of good citizenship or securing a moral uplift. Naturally he is interested in those measures which pertain to modern progress and material improvements, and his influence is exerted to secure them. His charities are many and generous, although the majority never come to light, for he regards his skill and training as a trust to be used

for the betterment and relief of humanity regardless of remuneration.

JOHN P. BECKWITH is one of the widely known railroad men of the Southeast, with a record of more than forty years of service in capacities ranging from clerk in a way station to executive officer in some of the most important transportation systems serving the State of Florida.

Mr. Beckwith, whose home has been in Jacksonville for a number of years, was born at Plymouth, North Carolina, June 24, 1858, a son of Thomas and Lina (Phelps) Beckwith. His parents were also born at Plymouth, where his father practiced law until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he joined the Confederate army and lost his life in battle when only thirty years of age. His widow survived him to the age of seventy. Of their two children John P. is the only survivor.

John P. Beckwith, owing to the early death of his father, had to achieve his own opportunities and make his career unaided. He received most of his school education at Smithfield, North Carolina, and at the age of fourteen he went to work. He was employed at different jobs until 1867, earning a living and accumulating some experience valuable to him later. Then, in 1867, he went to work with the North Carolina Railway at Durham, North Carolina, as clerk and ticket agent. In 1880 he joined the Cincinnati Southern Railway as rate clerk in the offices of Cincinnati.

His introduction to the railroad and transportation service of Florida began September 15, 1883, when he came to Jacksonville as state and freight agent for the Cincinnati Southern. In 1885 he was made general agent for the Western Atlantic Railway and the Central Railway of Georgia at Jacksonville, and in 1890 was made a general freight agent for the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West Railway in Jacksonville. In 1895 Mr. Beckwith removed to New York City, where for about a year he was general freight and passenger agent for the Ocean Steamship Line. September 13, 1896, he returned to Florida as freight traffic manager for the Florida East Coast Railway Company. January 1, 1909, he was elected fourth vice president of this railroad, and since January 1, 1910, has been vice president in charge of operation and traffic.

Mr. Beckwith is a democrat in politics and a member of the Episcopal Church. On September 25, 1883, he married Sadie Nagle Boyer, who was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. They have two children, Thomas L., who married Helen Kenworthy; and Florence Marie, wife of William G. Lockwood, and mother of a daughter, Florence Beckwith Lockwood.

JOHN W. DUBOSE, county judge of Duval County and one of the representative members of the bar of the City of Jacksonville, was born at Williamsburg, South Carolina, on the rith of October, 1882, and is a scion of one of the old and honored families of that historic southern commonwealth. He is the eldest of the five children of Edgar C. and Ellen (Johnson) DuBose,. who are now residents of Jacksonville, where they established their home in 1884 and where the father was engaged in the retail grocery business until 1917, since which year he has lived virtually retired. He is a democrat in political allegiance, and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

John W. DuBose was two years of age at

time of the family removal from South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, and in the public schools of this city he gained his early education, which was effectively supplemented by his determined and assiduous study in a private way. His ambition to enter the legal profession was shown in his close application to the study of law at every possible hour, both day and night, and his excellent powers of absorption and assimilation enabled him to make substantial progress in his studies, with the result that in October, 1918, he passed a most creditable examination and was admitted to the Florida bar. Thereafter he was engaged in the general practice of his profession at Jacksonville until November 6, 1920, when he was elected county judge of Duval County, an office in which his administration is fully justifying the consistency of the popular vote that made him the incumbent. Judge DuBose is an active member of the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Duval County Bar Association, the Florida State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is affiliated in his home city with Ionia Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons. He gave most effective and loyal service as president of the city council of Jacksonville, and retained for five years the office of justice of the peace. In the World war period Judge DuBose was secretary of the Duval County Draft Board, and was otherwise active in the furtherance of local patriotic service. He is a stalwart in the camp of the democratic party, is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and his fraternal affiliations further include membership in the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, together with its adjunct organization, the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khorassan. The judge is married and has two children.

SANFORD STONE SISSON, M. D., is head of the Sisson Clinic, Incorporated, at Jacksonville. This is an organization for the practice of group medicine, being an association of physicians and dentists representing various departments of medicine, dentistry, surgery and the specialties, practicing together as a group. The basis of all treatment is a thorough diagnosis, and the treatments that follow represent the combined and individual skill of the men comprising the clinic, many of them specialists in their fields.

The facilities include everything for the application of general medicine and surgery, and also such special departments as X-ray, radium, and electro-therapy.

Doctor Sisson was born on his father's farm near Mayfield in Graves County, Kentucky, November 21, 1877, and is a son of Oscar M. and Mattie (Hobson) Sisson, who were also natives of Graves County. His father was born in 1848 and died in 1910, and his mother was born in 1858. Doctor Sisson was the second of nine children, five sons and four daughters, seven of whom are living. Oscar Sisson was a farmer and tobacco grower, one of the very substantial citizens of Graves County, was a personal friend of the late Henry Watterson, was active in the Masonic Order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was a democrat and a member of the Christian Church.

Doctor Sisson acquired a grammar and high school education in Kentucky, and at the age of

eighteen began teaching. Through teaching he paid the expenses of his medical education. For several years he attended the University of Louisville seven months and taught the rest of the year. He was only seven years of age when he determined to become a physician, and of that ambition he never lost sight. He graduated in medicine in 1902, and first located in the small Town of Cuba, Kentucky, where he remained about seven years. While there he married Miss Sue M. Coulter.

Their honeymoon was a trip to Europe. In London Doctor Sisson attended the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, from which he received his diploma November 14, 1910. He did further work in the Pasteur Institute at Paris, and was graduated from Moorefield's Hospital of London on January 2, 1911. On returning from abroad Doctor Sisson located at Jacksonville, and his successful practice and his association with other physicians brought about the organization of the Sisson Clinic.

Since August 27, 1913, Doctor Sisson has been United States pension examiner at Jacksonville, and since 1917 he has been physician and surgeon to the Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home. He is a member of Russell Lodge No. 121, F. and A. M., the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a member of the Baptist Church and in politics is a democrat.

JAMES E. BATES, though born in South Carolina, has lived practically all his life in Florida and has had many interests to make him one of the prominent men of the state. His home for over thirty years has been in Tampa, where he was a building contractor and is now secretary, treasurer and manager of the Bates-Hudnall-Jetton Company, lumber and mill work manufacturers.

Mr. Bates was born at Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina, December 31, 1863, a son of Bazzel and Laura (Brown) Bates. His parents were also natives of South Carolina and of prominent old families of that state. Bazzel Bates and wife have lived in Florida before the war, and three years after the birth of their son James E., they returned to the state in 1866 and located at Hawthorne in Alachua County. Of their nine children seven reached mature years and all were born in Florida except James E., who was the third child.

James E. Bates acquired a public school education and lived at home until he was twenty-two. In 1890 he removed to Tampa and engaged in business as a building contractor and did much of the construction work of the city during the next fifteen years. The Bates-Hudnall-Jetton Company

was organized in 1916, and he was for a time its president, but subsequently took up his duties as secretary, treasurer and manager. This is one of the important industries of Tampa, manufacturing large quantities of lumber and building material. Besides the office force about forty persons are employed in the mills and shops.

Mr. Bates married in 1888 Ella J. Jordan. She died March 1, 1921, the mother of five children, three of whom are living: Mildred, wife of J. J. Miller of Tampa; Lilly, wife of J. A. Googe of Tampa; and Edna, wife of W. A. Callas of Tampa.

On March 25, 1922, Mr. Bates married Alice Bell of Louisville, Kentucky. Fraternally Mr. Bates is affiliated with Tampa Lodge No. 708, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

ROBERT H. ANDERSON assumed on the first of October, 1921, the duties of the office of general solicitor of the Flagler system, which represents some of the most important railroad, industrial and general capitalistic interests of the State of Florida, and his advancement to this important post was made by the trustees of the Flagler estate, upon the recommendation of Scott M. Loftin, general counsel for the system and the subject of individual record on other pages of this publication. From a newspaper article making announcement of his advancement to this post are taken the following quotations:

"The news of Mr. Anderson's promotion in the legal department of the Flagler system will be received with pleasure by his many friends throughout the state. The new general solicitor is a young lawyer who has made a brilliant record since his admission to the bar in 1913, and his advancement comes as a recognition of his ability and his achievement in his profession. Mr. Anderson is a native Floridian, having been born at Pensacola, August 12, 1890. He was educated in the public schools of Escambia County and in Stetson University at DeLand, Florida, in the law department of which institution he was graduated in 1913. He was admitted to the bar in that year, and thereafter was engaged in the practice of his profession at Pensacola until 1918.

"In 1915 Mr. Anderson served in the State Legislature, as a representative from Escambia County, and he made an enviable record as a lawmaker, being considered one of the strong members of the Lower House. His next public post was that of assistant United States district attorney for the northern district of Florida, the appointment for the ad interim term being made in 1917, by Federal Judge William B. Sheppard, of Pensacola.

"Mr. Anderson removed to Jacksonville in September, 1918, to accept a position in the legal department of the Florida East Coast Railway. He was made assistant general solicitor of the road in 1920, and his services in that capacity won him the post of general solicitor following the promotion of Mr. Loftin to the office of general counsel. Mr. Anderson will continue to reside in Jacksonville, where headquarters of the legal department of the Flagler system are maintained."

Mr. Anderson is a son of Dr. Warren E. and Catherine (Hargis) Anderson, the former of whom was born at Marianna, Jackson County, this state, February 16, 1858, and the latter of whom was born in Pensacola, Escambia County, where she still maintains her home, her husband having died February 1, 1912. Robert H., of this review, was the eldest of their eleven children, all of whom survive the honored father. The marriage of the parents was solemnized at Pensacola, October 16, 1889, and in that city the father continued his activities as a leading physician and surgeon until the time of his death, he having been a prominent member of the Florida State Medical Society and affiliated also with the American Medical Association.

Robert H. Anderson, like his father, is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks he is a past exalted ruler of Pensacola Lodge No. 497.

November 8, 1914, recorded the marriage of Mr. Anderson and Miss Marie E. Willard, who likewise was reared in this state, and the one child

of this union is a winsome little daughter, Marie E.

SHELDON ALEXANDER MORRIS, M. D. To the accumulated skill and knowledge of his own experience Doctor Morris added all that could be acquired by association and study in some of the best medical centers of this country and Europe. For a quarter of a century he has practiced at Jacksonville, where his attainments have earned the rank of leadership in his profession.

Doctor Morris was born at Belzoni, Washington County, Mississippi, October 21, 1863, son of William Marshall and Helen (Alexander) Morris. His father, who was born at North Garden in Albermarle County, Virginia, June 14, 1830, was at this writing in his ninety-second year. His mother was born at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1837, and died in 1894. Of their three sons and three daughters two are alive, Doctor Morris being the fifth child. William M. Morris graduated in both the literary and law schools of the University of Virginia, but his active life was devoted to farming and planting. Up to 1857 he owned a plantation and a number of slaves in Virginia. In that year he took his slaves to Mississippi and engaged in cotton growing on a large scale. He continued in that business until 1904, when he located at Clearwater, Florida, where he bought three orange groves. During the Civil war he joined the Confederate troops and served as a captain under General Mosby, who was his cousin and personal friend. Captain Morris has lived a long and eventful life, and while engaged in practical affairs has also manifested a fine literary taste and has written some very good poetry. He graduated from Washington and Lee University. He is a democrat and a member of the Presbyterian Church. This branch of the Morris family is treated at length in Durrett's history of the Morris family.

Sheldon Alexander Morris as a youth showed much resourcefulness and independence, and determined to make his own way in the world. He earned all of the money required for his higher education. At the age of fourteen he earned a sum of money by cutting cord wood. In 1886 he finished a course at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Starkville, Mississippi, and from there entered Tulane University Medical Department in New Orleans, where he graduated in 1888. For nine years Doctor Morris practiced at Belzoni, Mississippi, and while there he did much advanced study, attending the Polyclinic Hospital of New York City and other clinics in other hospitals. For nearly two years he was abroad in Europe, spending most of his time in the Medical School of the University of Vienna, Austria. Doctor Morris located for practice at Jacksonville in 1898, and has given his attention to general medicine without specializing in any particular line. He is a member of the Duval County, Florida State and American Medical Associations. He belongs to Temple Lodge No. 22, F. and A. M., the University Club and in politics is a democrat.

In September, 1893, he married Mary M. Young, a native of New Orleans. They have one son, Kenneth Alexander, who graduated from Princeton College in 1918, and is now in his third year (1923) as a medical student in Tulane University at New Orleans.

CHARLES B. ROGERS, president of the Consolidated Grocery Company, one of the large and im