Colson family papers, 1897-1920.

University of Florida

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The original campus plans for the University of Florida at Gainesville were developed by the firm of Edwards & Walter. Edwards & Walter were contracted to design and layout the campus buildings in 1905. Additional plans were developed by the firm's successor, Edward and Sayward. In 1925, Rudolph Weaver, Director of the University's School of Architecture, assumed the position of Architect for the Board of Control and was responsible for campus planning throughout the state. ...

Alachua County Abstract Company (Gainesville, Fla.)

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Alachua Country Abstract Company is the oldest firm of its kind for North Central Florida and the Gainesville region. Presidents of company have included Lindon K. Rawlins, William C. Jackson, Barney R. Colson, Sr., and Barney R. Colson, Jr. From the guide to the Alachua County Abstract Company Records, 1874-1930, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) ...

Jennings, William Sherman, 1863-1920

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Lawyer, state legislator, and governor of Florida. Born in Ilinois; attended Southern Illinois Normal University. Read law with his uncle and attended Union Law School in Illinois. Moved to Brooksville, Florida, in 1885 to establish his law practice. Served in the Florida House of Representatives, 1892-1895, as governor, 1901-1905, and as general counsel for the Trustees of Internal Improvement Fund, 1905-1909, the agency administering public lands in Florida. ...

Colson, Barney R.

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Businessman. Barney Ralph Colson was born on April 24, 1879 in Trenton, Florida. He attended Alachua County public schools, the South Florida Military Institute (Bartow), and the University of Florida. In 1901, he joined the Alachua County Abstract Company, later buying it and becoming president. He was a leader in education as the chairman of the Alachua County School Board, as well as a prominent member of the Gainesville Rotary Club, Phi Kappa Phi, the Blue Key Societ...

South Florida Military College

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Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw, 1859-1936

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Duncan U. Fletcher was born January 6, 1859, near Americus, Georgia. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1880, and studied law there. In 1881 he moved to Jacksonville, Florida, practiced law and became chief counsel of the Florida East Coast Railroad. He became a Jacksonville Councilman in 1887, in 1893 he served a term in the Florida House of Representatives, and was mayor of Jacksonville from 1893-1985, and 1901-1903. He was chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee from 1905...

Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, 1857-1910

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Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was born in Duval County, Florida, in 1857. Throughout his young life he worked in various positions on farms, in logging camps, and on steamboats. As the owner of a steam tug, The Three Friends, he earned a reputation smuggling guns to Cuban revolutionaries prior to the Spanish-American War. Broward held various public positions, serving as sheriff of Duval County, on the Jacksonville city council, in the Florida House of Representatives (1901), and on the State Board...