Clarence Henry Geist (1866-1938), former owner of the Boca Raton Club, was raised on an Indiana farm. At 19 he left home to seek success. Geist was a railroad conductor…
Elbridge Gale (1824-1907) was born in Vermont and is believed to have graduated from the Theological School of New Hampton Institute, a Free Will Baptist school in New Hampshire. He…
Robert Wilson "Bob" Fulton (1916-1995) was born in Michigan and moved to Lake Worth with his family in 1924, where he graduated from Lake Worth High School in 1934. Fulton…
Charles Britton Fulton (1910-1996) was born in Nevada and moved to Lake Worth with his family in 1924. His mother, Lillian Britton Fulton, was pastor of the First Congregational Church…
Thomas Farrar Fleming, Jr. (1916-1976) was born in Georgia and educated at the University of Florida and Harvard Business School. He settled in Boca Raton in 1940 with his wife,…
Victor W. Farris (1910-1985), Industrialist-Inventor, was born in Buffalo, New York where he attended the University of Buffalo and later continued his education at M. I. T. He manufactured many…
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised in London, Celia Lipton (1923-2011) was the daughter of a famed orchestra leader and impresario who played at Buckingham Palace for many years. Celia…
Joseph Denson Farish, Jr. (1921-2010) was born to Joseph D. and Louise Johnson Farish in Columbus, Georgia, where the senior Farish, a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School,…
Alfonso Fanjul Sr. (1909-1980) was born in Havana, Cuba, and graduated from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. His family owned the Czarnikow-Rionda Company in New York and the Cuban Trading…
Alfred (1871-1952) and Amanda Elfrida Erickson (1877-1954) emigrated from Gutenburg, Sweden, to Minnesota in 1891. They homesteaded in 1911 on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee with their four children.…
George Thomas Elmore was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he worked from a young age for his uncle's paving business. After high school, Elmore came to Fort Lauderdale to work…
John Brelsford Dunkle (1928-2005), Palm Beach County Clerk for 33 years, was born in West Palm Beach. His maternal grandfather, Edmund Munger Brelsford, had come from Ohio in 1880 and…