Tampa in 1909, and in the intervening period has successfully demonstrated what can be accomplished through industry, application and honest methods. Although he has never sought to come before the public except in a business capacity, he is a man of wide knowledge, and his progressive spirit is shown in many different ways.

Hiram G. Turner was born in Carroll County, Georgia, June 7, 1880, a son of L. J. A. and Julia A. (Embry) Turner, natives of Georgia. The father is deceased, but the mother still survives. They had seven children, of whom Hiram G. Turner is the fifth in order of birth. He was reared and educated in his native county, and following a brief residence in North Carolina, came to Tampa, and established his present business which is now the largest of its kind south of Atlanta, Georgia. Orders for his work come from places as far away as Baltimore, Maryland, and from different points in Kentucky and Ohio. Not only is he a skilled workman, but his artistic talent is shown in the designs and execution of his work, and his reputation is firmly established over a wide area, as indicated above.

The Turner Marble and Granite Company, in addition to monumental and mausoleum work, executes extensive contracts in supplying material for, and setting up, slate and marble vaults, building stone and tile floors, coping, cornices, ornamental tile and marble for banks, office buildings and residences. Among the many large orders executed by the company, in Tampa, may here be mentioned the Citrus Exchange Building, the Telephone Building, the First Baptist Church, and many others.

In 1915, Mr. Turner was united in marriage with Addie Brown Hesterly, of Carroll County, Georgia. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have two children, namely: Julia Christine and Hiram G., Junior. Mr. Turner is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and has also been made a K. C. C. H. in that fraternity. He also belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Tampa Board of Trade, and the Manufacturers Association of Tampa and also holds membership in the Temple Terraces Country Club. In politics he is a democrat.

Mr. Turner is a man who makes many warm friends, attaching them to him by bonds of affection not easily severed. He is recognized by all who know him as a man of earnest purpose and progressive principles, and he is liberal toward his employes. Always warmly supporting those measures which he deems are right, he stands for advancement along material, intellectual lines. His labors have not only been an element in promoting his own success, but have been a potent factor in the development of the communities in which he has lived and done business.

WILLIAM T. MORGAN started life under the handicap of comparative poverty. He learned the business of cigar making. About thirty years ago he came to Florida, and the chief fruit of his business enterprise is the Morgan Cigar Company at West Tampa, of which he is manager and vice president. This is one of the most prosperous cigar factories in the Tampa District.

He was born in Banks County, Georgia, July 5, 1876, son of J. C. and Annie (Slayton) Morgan, both natives of Georgia. He was only a year and a half old when his mother died, and as a child he had to look out for himself. He was a mere boy when he went on the payroll of a cigar factory at Atlanta. His first work was sweeping the Vol. II-7

floors. Later he was made a shipper, and in course of time qualified as a cigar maker. In 1892 he came to Florida and worked at his trade for several years.

Mr. Morgan in 1900 moved to the far Northwest and established a cigar factory at Seattle, Washington. In 1905 he moved his factory to West Tampa, at which time his force of employes numbered about twenty-five. In 1906 he incorporated the Morgan Cigar Company under the laws of the State of Washington with a capital of $100,000, about $50,000 being paid up, while the rest was taken up within two years. Under Mr. Morgan as general manager and vice president this industry has steadily grown, and it now has a force of employees of about three hundred. They have both a bonded and unbonded factory on the same lot, in a three story and basement building 50 by 175 feet. The Morgan Cigar Company makes a specialty of clear Havana cigars in bond. Its finest brand is the Juan De Fuca, which sells retail at from ten cents to three for a dollar. The other cigars manufactured sell from five cents to fifteen cents a piece and are mild Havana. This company's output is between ten to twelve million cigars per year, and due to their excellent quality they have a steady demand and distribution all over the United States. The capital and surplus of the Morgan Cigar Company is now $400,000.

Mr. Morgan has proved himself in every way one of the progressive and up-to-date citizens of Tampa. He married in 1901 at Seattle, Miss Genevieve Nettefield, a native of Wisconsin. Their two daughters and two sons are Sylvia, Marybell, Thomas, Jr., and Jack. The family are Catholics in religion.

EDWARD H. FOLK, vice president and manager of the West Coast Fertilizer Company, is one of the sound and dependable business men of Tampa who has won appreciation and attained to prosperity through his own unremitting efforts. He was born in South Carolina, July 9, 1879, a son of C. L. and Sallie M. (Hiers) Folk, both of whom were born in South Carolina, where the father still resides, but the mother is deceased. They had seven children, of whom Edward H. Folk was the sixth in order of birth.

Reared and educated in his native state Edward H. Folk grew to useful manhood, and in 1904 went to Savannah, Georgia, where he remained for two years, and then, in 1906, came to Florida, and for two years was in the employ of the Barker Chemical Company at Inglis. In 1908 he accepted the position of bookkeeper for the Gulf Fertilizer Company of Tampa, and held it until 1914 when he became interested in the newlyestablished West Coast Fertilizer Company as a stockholder and was made its manager. In 1918 he was elected its vice president, and he holds that office as well as that of general manager of the company. Under his watchful supervision the business has steadily expanded and a very large trade is had over a wide territory. Mr. Folk has other interests and is a director of the Bank of Commerce of Tampa, and owns an interest in a ranch in Glades County, Florida.

In 1906 Mr. Folk was married to Blanch Calhoun, of Augusta, Georgia. They have no children. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and Knights of Pythias. Reared a democrat he has continued faithful to the principles of that party all his life, and still supports the candidates of it. He is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club.

He is a splendid type of the business man who has made Tampa one of the leading commercial centers of the South, and yet his interests in business are not of that absorbing kind which precludes activity along lines which make for well-rounded character and developinent. He is a man of broad information in many directions. His personal acquaintance with leading citizens of note is a broad one and his spirit of good fellowship makes life brighter for those with whom he comes into contact.

WILLIAM JOHN HARKISHEIMER. Although more than twenty-three years have passed since the death of William John Harkisheimer, he is still remembered by the older residents of Jacksonville as a valiant soldier during times of war, a publicspirited citizen during days of peace, a business man of integrity and probity and a capable financier who gave of his ability to the founding and development of several large enterprises.

Mr. Harkisheimer was born January 11, 1838, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a son of William and Margaret Douglas (McLean) Harkisheimer, the former of German and the latter of Scotch ancestry. He was the second in a family of five children, and after attending the public schools of Philadelphia until reaching the age of sixteen years was apprenticed to his uncle, Daniel J. McLean, to learn the trade of making watch cases. That he mastered this difficult occupation is found in the fact that at the age of eighteen years he made a watch case that took the first prize at the Franklin Institute Fair, held at Philadelphia, and which was for many years carried by its maker with much pride. The panic of 1857 threw the young man out of employment, but after a few months of idleness he was offered and accepted a position as clerk under the commissioner of public highways. He took an active part in the first Lincoln presidential campaign, being secretary of one of the Philadelphia executive committees. At the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Harkisheimer entered the Twentieth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, as a private soldier; in June was promoted corporal, in July was made a sergeant, and at the end of his three months of enlistment was mustered out of the service. He reentered the service in September, 1861, as second lieutenant in the Eightyeighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in June, 1862, was promoted to a first lieutenancy, and in November, 1863, was made a captain. In March, 1865, he was brevetted major for faithful and meritorious service. During this time he saw much hard service in the Shenandoah Valley and with the Army of the Potomac, being badly wounded at Fredericksburg in December, 1862, and receiving honorable mention for gallant conduct in that battle. After two years of service as aide-de-camp and assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. W. R. Montgomery, U. S. A., Gen. John Mansfield, U. S. V., and Gen. J. P. Slough, U. S. V., he was ordered to duty in 1866 to Columbia, South Carolina, where he remained until his retirement from the army in 1869. His position under General Montgomery deserves special mention as it involved a particularly important and onerous trust for one so young. From October, 1861, until April, 1862, while the Army of the Potomac was being organized, he, stationed at Alexandria, Virginia, had entire charge of the business and traffic carried on with that army south of the Potomac, all goods, stores or travelers being allowed to enter or pass through

the army only upon his official orders. The business involved in these proceedings amounted to thousands of dollars daily, thus showing the honor and responsibility of the office.

On leaving the service Major Harkisheimer began a seven-year residence at Philadelphia, at the end of which time he removed to Jacksonville, Florida, where he established himself in business as a wholesale and retail grocer. He met with immediate and signal success, largely due to his introduction of the best modern methods. Always active in public affairs, he soon associated himself with the best interests of his adopted city. The Duval Building and Loan Association of Jacksonville was established by him in 1882, and he was its president from its beginning up to the time of his death. Mr. Harkisheimer early became interested in banking, and when he died was vice president of the Commercial Bank and a director in the National Bank of Jacksonville, both of this city; a director in both the Putnam National Bank of Palatka and the First National Bank of Fernandina, and was connected otherwise. He was a charter member of the Jacksonville Board of Trade; a member of the Seminole Club and Pennsylvania Commandery of the Loyal Legion; a charter member of Ö. M. Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic; and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

In September, 1867, Major Harkisheimer was united in marriage with Jennie E. Crane, daughter of Judge W. E. Crane, of Yonkers, New York. When he died, in February, 1899, Major Harkisheimer was survived by his widow and two children: Mrs. George H. Richards and Howard E., both of Jacksonville.

ALLEN STANWIX HAY. It would be a long time to go back to find the beginning of the knowledge that in certain gums, barks and herbs existed curative properties for human ills, but this knowledge descended to yet more enlightened ages, when chemistry tested their properties and discovered and developed combinations that now we call drugs, the intelligent use of which is beneficent beyond expression. The old-time physicians and druggists, with medicaments of curious and sometimes repellant composition, have passed away, and the modern dealer in drugs is a responsible individual whose scientific training has elevated his business to a profession. One of the representative business men in this line at Jacksonville is Allen Stanwix Hay, who has been a resident of Florida since he was ten years old.

Mr. Hay was born at Leeds, England, July 22, 1876, and at the age of ten years became a resident of Florida, where his interests have been centered ever since.

After completing the public school course Mr. Hay became a clerk in a drug store at Jacksonville, and continued in this line until he had thoroughly learned the business. He then turned his attention for a time in another direction and showed his versatility by learning the printer's trade, with which he was connected until 1902, at which time he was ready to embark in business for himself. He opened his present retail drug store at 901 Kingston Avenue, Jacksonville, where he has continued ever since. He handles all standard drugs and drug sundries, and maintains all the pleasant features now found all over the country in first class drug stores, and as a responsible, reliable business man, commands the respect and enjoys the confidence of the community. Mr. Hay married in March, 1916, Miss Elizabeth

Smith, who was born at Roanoke, Virginia, and they have two sons: Allen Stanwix, Jr., and William B. Mr. and Mrs. Hay are members of the Episcopal Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner and belongs to Solomon Lodge, F. and A. M.; Jacksonville Chapter, R. A. M.; Damascus Commandery, K. T.; Florida Consistory, and Morocco Temple, Mystic Shrine. Both he and wife are members of the Eastern Star.

MORGAN F. JONES. Prominent among the men who are maintaining the prestige of the Jacksonville bar is Morgan F. Jones, who has been engaged in successful practice here since 1911, and who since 1920 has been a referee in bankruptcy. He was born at Oglethorpe, Macon County, Georgia, August 27, 1885, and is a son of Newton T. and Ruth Ann (Sanders) Jones.

N. T. Jones was born in 1840 and was reared on a farm and received a public school education. When the discussion between the states resulted in hostilities his sympathies were entirely with the South, and for the four years of war that followed he fought valiantly as a soldier of the Confederacy. Not long after the close of his military service he engaged in farming in Macon County, Georgia, where he has since made his home, and still superintends operations on his property there, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years. A republican in politics, he is one of the influential men of his community, and in former years took an active part in public affairs, having served for nineteen years as postmaster at Oglethorpe and for eight years was the incumbent of the same position at Pelham, Georgia. He is a member of the Baptist Church, as is also Mrs. Jones, who was born in 1846. They have been the parents of twelve children, of whom five are living, Morgan F. being the youngest.

Morgan F. Jones attended the public schools of Oglethorpe, following which he pursued a literary course at Mercer University, Macon, and then took up the study of law at the University of Kentucky, being graduated with the class of 1910, and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bars of Kentucky and Georgia in the same year, and in 1911 was admitted to the bar of Florida. In the latter year he located at Jacksonville, where he has since been engaged in a general practice. He has built up a large, remunerative and representative clientele, and has attained a deservedly high place in the ranks of his profession. He is a member of the Duval County Bar Association and the Florida State Bar Association. Mr. Jones is a democrat in politics, and has interested himself in political and public matters. He served one term as a member of the Jacksonville City Council, representing the Fifteenth Ward, and September 15, 1920, was appointed a referee in bankruptcy, a post which he still retains. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias; Solomon Lodge, F. and A. M.; Jacksonville Chapter, R. A. M.; Damascus Commandery, K. T.; and Morocco Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. With other citizens of progressive inclinations and farsightedness he supports movements fostered with the idea of benefiting the interests and institutions of Jacksonville and the welfare of its people.

On March 1, 1915, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Martina Bell, of Jacksonville, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Martina Bell.

JULIAN PAUL. The placing of insurance has now become one of the most important branches of commercial life as the people have been educated to their duty in this respect. This awakening to what is an obvious duty has been accomplished through a most intensive campaign on the part of the progressive insurance men of the country, who have had to overcome many obstacles in the way of ignorance, indifference and lack of appreciation of the many advantages of this form of investment and protection. At present there are few indeed who do not carry some form of insurance, and the time is not far distant when the intelligent man and woman will provide for every contingency through the medium of insurance. One of the men who has been connected with the insurance business of Jacksonville during all of his active career is Julian Paul, with offices at 506 Bisbee Building.

Julian Paul was born in Duval County, Florida, January 1, 1887, a son of Dunbar James and Mary (Carolin) Paul. Dunbar James Paul was born in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, February 26, 1842, and his wife was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1847, and died in 1901. They had eight children, of whom Julian Paul is the eldest. Educated at the University of Edinborough, Scotland, Dunbar James Paul came to the United States at the age of eighteen years, well grounded in the essentials, and located in South Carolina, and there he lived for many years, being engaged in a wholesale cotton business. Subsequently he came to Jacksonville, Florida, and is now engaged in a merchandise brokerage business. He is a Presbyterian and a democrat, and a man of high standing in the city.

Julian Paul was graduated from the Mill High School of Jacksonville in 1905, and immediately thereafter established himself in his present general insurance business, which he has gradually expanded until he is now one of the leaders in his line in the city, and he is also engaged in placing loans upon good security. He belongs to Barnett Lodge, F. and A. M., and to all the branches of Scottish-Rite Masonry, in which he has been advanced to the thirty-second degree, and he is a member of Morocco Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Like his father, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church, but in politics he is a republican.

Mr. Paul married Louise Chaney, of Rome, Georgia, June 5, 1912, and they have three children: Mary Louise, and twins, John Roberts and Charlotte.

RAYMOND BRUIT HOBBS, of Milton, Santa Rosa County, is here giving a most progressive and effective administration of the office of county superintendent of schools, and in this position he is able alike to express his fine loyalty to his native county and his advanced policies in the ordering of the public schools.

Mr. Hobbs was born on his father's farm in Santa Rosa County, and the date of his nativity was February 27, 1893. He is a son of the late John and Pamilla (Robinson) Hobbs, who passed their entire lives in Florida, the father having been a farmer and stockgrower and having been prominently connected with the logging and general timber business in this section of the state.

After having profited by the advantages of the public schools of his native county Raymond B. Hobbs took an effective course in the Starts Academy, at Montgomery, Alabama. Thereafter he gave seven years of admirable service as a