George Herman Wedgworth (1928-2016) was born in Starkville, Mississippi, the first of three children. The family moved to Belle Glade in 1930, where his father, Herman Wedgworth, was the first…
Fritz Carl Stein, Jr. (1931-2011) was born into a Belle Glade farm family, the grandson of Wisconsin farmers Hans Juergen Stein (1868-1930), who hailed from Kaunas, Russia, now in Lithuania,…
Marvin Umphrey "Red" Mounts (1898-1969) was born in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, in the family's sod farmhouse. In 1925, he graduated from agricultural college at the University of Florida, and was hired…
Charles Stewart Mott (1875-1973) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897 with an engineering degree. He became president of his family's bicycle-tire…
George Sukeji Morikami (1887-1976) was born in Miyazu, Japan, and emigrated to the United States in 1906 to join the Yamato Colony in what would become western Boca Raton. Henry…
Richard Green Johnson, Sr. (1866-1945) was born in Tallahassee to Green Johnson and Letitia Josephine Johnson, and in 1897 married Margaret "Maggie" Bell (1872-1955) of Concord, Florida.
Johnson owned a 1480-acre…
Richard Green Johnson, Jr. (1900-1957) was born in Tallahassee to Richard G. Johnson, Sr. (see bio) and Margaret Ann "Maggie" Bell. Johnson attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and…
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.…
Paul Albert Dreher (1903-1993), known as the "Johnny Appleseed" of West Palm Beach, was born in Germany, where he earned a degree in horticulture from the University of Hohenheim in…
August H. Butts (1884-1955) and his wife, Natalie Swanson Butts, came from Lake County, Florida, to West Palm Beach before 1920. Butts purchased 3,500 acres west of Boca Raton that…
John Bloomfield Beach (1866-1929), pioneer horticulturist, was born in Rome, New York. After finishing military school, he moved to Melbourne, Florida, and established Indian River Nurseries in 1887, the first…