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DR. F. A. REED

    Dr. F. A. Reed was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 28, 1867, son of Dr. Albert E. and Mary A. Reed. His father was a practicing physician of Hartford, Connecticut, but was an early comer to Florida, as he bought property on the St. Johns River about twenty miles south of Jacksonville sixty years ago, and here he built a beautiful winter estate, which was known as “Reeds,” and for years was one of the show places of the northern part of the state.
    Dr. F. A. Reed received his education at Leavenworth Institute in New York State, at Hanneman School in Philadelphia, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1887, and he attended the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio, and after his graduation from this institution he served as interne in a hospital in Cleveland for a time.
    After practicing medicine in Cleveland for ten years he decided to make Florida his permanent home, which he had visited on several occasions. He has been a resident of Eustis the past thirty years, during all of which time he has carried on a large practice, and has the distinction of being the oldest practicing physician in Lake County in point of service.
    Dr. Reed has always taken an active part in public affairs and served as a member of the City Council of Eustis for six years. He was one of the pioneer boosters of the town as he was one of the promoters of the Eustis Booster Club, which was organized in the early days, and in which he held the position of Scribe.
    He holds membership in the American Medical Association, and in the Southern Homeopathic Association, of which he served as President for two years, and he is also a member of the Central Florida Medical Association.
    He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Masons, and several other organizations.
    He was married at Columbus, Ohio, to Mary Senter, and has one daughter, Lucille, by a prior marriage, and one son, Francis, by his present marriage.

    from: History of Lake County Florida, Wm. T. Kennedy, Editor-in-chief, History of Lake County Florida Part II, Biographical. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Lake County, Florida p279

WILLIAM H. RICHEY

    William H. Richey was born in Lowndes County, Miss., on April 29, 1862, a son of William B. and Lucy Jerdon Richey. His father served in the Civil War, in a Mississippi Regiment, and rendered valuable service for the Confederate cause.
    After receiving a limited education in the schools of Mississippi, Mr. Richey came to Leesburg, in 1884, at which time the city was included in the limits of Sumter County. He is therefore one of the oldest residents of what is now Lake County, and his principal occupation during all the years he has resided here has been farming and fruit growing, in which he has been eminently successful.
    Largely through his interest in the Good Roads movement, with which he has been identified for the past thirty years, Mr. Richey was elected County Commissioner about ten years ago and has been subsequently re-elected five times. It is due largely to him that the roads in his section of Lake County are among the best in the state, as he has been careful to see that only the most capable contractors have been employed in their construction. It is also due largely, if not entirely, to his efforts that a Federal road is now being built through Lake County. This is a matter of great importance, as the number of Federal roads built is very limited.
    In addition to his many other activities, Mr. Richey served as Chairman of the Building Committee which built the State Bank building in Leesburg, the largest office building in the county, and he was also Chairman of the Building Committee for the Masonic Temple at Leesburg.
    Mr. Richey’s fraternal affiliations are with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Masons, Shriners, and Knights Templar.
    He was married at Leesburg, to Leeuna Stuart, and had fourteen children, of whom eleven are living: Mrs. Lucy McQuaig, Mrs. Alice Whitcomb, William H., Jr., Mrs. Myrtle Suddyth, Mrs. Ruth Roberts, Mrs. Mary Carter, Edwin H., Pearl, Belle, Robert, and Mrs. Josephine Roberts. Mr. Richey has the proud distinction of having the largest family of any subject represented in the biographical section of this history.
from: History of Lake County Florida, Wm. T. Kennedy, Editor-in-chief, History of Lake County Florida Part II, Biographical. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Lake County, Florida p279-280

W. J. ROGERS

    W. J. Rogers was born in Keyser, North Carolina, on November 27th, 1883, son of W. J. and Alice T. Rogers.
    When a young boy, his parents moved to Georgia and he was raised on a turpentine farm in that State and attended school at Mercer University, graduating in 1905.
    Mr. Rogers is an old resident of Florida, having come to Putnam County in 1906, where he engaged in the naval stores business. He came to Tavares in 1911 and operated a turpentine still between Tavares and Mineola until 1918, when he entered the Bank of Tavares as Cashier, and of which he is now Cashier and Vice-President.
    Mr. Rogers has various interests outside of the Bank, being the owner of a considerable amount of acreage and orange groves in Lake County and he is a Bond Trustee for the Special Road and Bridge District No. 8, also Bond Trustee Town of Tavares. He has been Treasurer of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce since it was organized.
    He has taken a prominent part in Masonry and has held all the offices in the local lodge at Tavares.
    He was married at Tavares to Dorothy Duncan, daughter of the late highly esteemed H.H. Duncan who served as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lake County for thirty-three years. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have two children: W. J., Junior, and Marian A. Rogers.
from: History of Lake County Florida, Wm. T. Kennedy, Editor-in-chief, History of Lake County Florida Part II, Biographical. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Lake County, Florida p280

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