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	Henry Morrison Flagler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Flagler was born in Hopewell, New York and was the son of a poor minister.
		Henry Flagler's non-Standard Oil interests went in a different direction than Henry Rogers', however, when in 1878, on the advice of his physician, Flagler traveled to Jacksonville, Florida for the winter with his first wife, Mary (née Harkness) Flagler, who was quite ill. Two years after she died in 1881, he married again.
		Henry Flagler's private railcar "Rambler" is located on the grounds of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Flagler (1405 words)

	Flager Museum - Henry Flagler Biography
		Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York to Reverend Isaac and Elizabeth Caldwell Harkness Flagler.
		Flagler obtained $100,000 from a relative on the condition that Flagler be made a partner.
		Flagler originally intended for West Palm Beach to be the terminus of his railroad system, but during 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the area, causing Flagler to rethink this original decision.
	www.flaglermuseum.us /html/flagler_biography.html (1112 words)

	Henry Flagler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York.
		While Flagler was to remain on the board of Standard Oil, his new venture was the wilderness of Florida's east coast.
		In May 1905, Henry Flagler was 75 years old and ready to begin the most daring and difficult venture of his life.
	www.keywestinfocenter.com /hen.html (458 words)

	Flager Museum - Florida East Coast Railway (FEC)
		In1912 Henry Flagler rode the first train into Key West, marking the completion of the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway's Over-Sea Railroad connection to Key West and the linkage by railway of the entire east coast of Florida.
		Flagler's construction of hotels at points along the railroad and his development of the agricultural industry through the Model Land Company established tourism and agriculture as Florida's major industries.
		Flagler obtained a charter from the state of Florida authorizing him to build a railroad along the Indian River to Miami and as the railroad progressed southward, cities such as New Smyrna and Titusville began to develop along the tracks.
	www.flaglermuseum.us /html/fec.html (922 words)

	Henry Flagler - Top 50 Most Important Floridians of the 20th Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Flagler responded by distancing himself from the Standard Oil Co. he founded with John D. Rockefeller and spending less time in its New York offices.
		Flagler's Florida East Coast Railroad stretched from St. Augustine to Key West, complementing his string of luxury lodgings that included the Breakers in Palm Beach County.
		Flagler died in 1913 at age 83 after falling on the marble stairs of Whitehall, the palace he built for his third wife in Palm Beach.
	www.theledger.com /static/top50/pages/flagler.html (433 words)

	Henry Flagler Page One
		Henry Morrison Flagler was born in Hopewell, New York on January 2, 1830, the son of a struggling Presbyterian minister.
		Flagler agreed, a contract was signed, and the railroad reached Miami on April 15, 1896, with the first passenger train operating into the community on the shores of Biscayne Bay on April 22.
		Flagler convinced the Florida Legislature to change its law in 1901 and he married his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan, whom he had known for about eight years.
	www.keyshistory.org /flagler.html (2834 words)

	Flagler Enterprises Letters
		Henry Flagler was born in 1830 in the state of New York.
		Flagler opened hotels all throughout the state as well as numerous other enterprises and the Florida East Coast Railway grew as he developed areas in the southern parts of the state including Miami and even as far as Key West.
		Henry Flagler died in 1913 and is buried in St. Augustine.
	www.fsu.edu /~speccoll/flagler/flagcoll.htm (548 words)

	It's Real Florida - Henry Flagler: Visionary, Tycoon and Floridian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Henry Flagler was born in Hopewell, NY and was the son of a poor minister.
		Henry Flager's non-Standard Oil interests went in a different direction than Henry Rogers' when in 1878, on the advice of his physician, Flagler traveled to Jacksonville, Florida with his wife Mary Flagler, who was quite ill. Two years after she died in 1881, he married Ida Alice Shrouds who had been Mary's caregiver.
		Flagler originally intended for West Palm Beach to be the final stop of his railroad system, but during 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the area, causing Flagler to rethink his original decision.
	itsrealfla.com /article.php?story=200606052229211 (1118 words)

	The American Experience \| Mr. Miami Beach \| People & Events \| Henry Flagler
		Flagler was again charmed by the weather but frustrated by the inadequate hotel and transportation facilities.
		Flagler followed the success of the Ponce de Leon, which opened in 1888, with the 1,150-room Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach, establishing Palm Beach as a vacation spot for wealthy Northerners.
		Henry Flagler died at age 83, on May 20, 1913, as a result of injuries he sustained in a fall at Palm Beach's Whitehall, the 55-room mansion he built as a wedding gift for his third wife.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/miami/peopleevents/pande05.html (740 words)

	Harry Harkness Flagler
		Flagler from the presidency of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society has been received by the board with a deep sense of the loss thereby sustained, not only by the society, but by music lovers of orchestral music throughout the nation.
		Flagler has devoted his life and his fortune to the higher interests of the art of music and to the welfare of New York musicians.
		Flagler has a record of modest and disinterested service unequalled in the musical annals of the city.
	www.drbronsontours.com /bronsonharryflagler.html (989 words)

	Everglades Digital Library
		Flagler left school at 14 to seek his fortune in Bellevue, Ohio, where his mother's family resided.
		Flagler recognized the state's potential for growth but acknowledged the lack of transportation and hotels.
		One of Henry Flagler's most controversial undertakings was "Flagler's Folly." The aim of the project was to extend the tracks to Key West, a bustling city located 128 miles past the end of the Florida peninsula.
	everglades.fiu.edu /reclaim/bios/flagler.htm (800 words)

	Dr. Bronson's History Page - Flagler Era
		Flagler brought many technical innovations to St. Augustine including: electricity, bathrooms with running water (actually the whole city was getting running fresh water), fresh water (he brought water from Moultrie Creek watershed and treated it in his own plant 4 1/2 miles from the PDL), a sewage system, and asphalt roads.
		By 1888 Flagler built a branch to San Mateo for the orange shippers and was in the process of converting 37 miles of railroad from narrow to standard gauge using steel rails.
		Thomas Hastings, Henry Flagler and the Founding of the Town of Hastings (not the architect of the Ponce de Leon) Tomas Hastings and Mary Esther Mellon were married in 1884.
	www.drbronsontours.com /bronsonhistorypageamericanstaugustineflagler.html (5992 words)

	Henry Flagler Page 2
		Flagler, however, was getting old, and his associates wanted him to realize his dream to ride his private rail car to Key West.
		Henry Flagler had realized his dream and slipped quietly from this world at his ocean cottage Nautalis on May 20, 1913, in Palm Beach, Florida.
		Flagler told an associate that he believed that his fortune was given to him, "To help his fellow men to help themselves and that he wanted to see if a plain American could succeed there where the Spanish, French and English had not."
	www.keyshistory.org /flaglerpage2.html (2694 words)

	Remembering Henry Flagler
		Young Henry, tall and handsome for his age was eager to leave farm life in Medina, New York and to seek his own fortune.
		Flagler went to McKim, Meade and White of New York, the leading architectural firm in the United States and hired two young architects: John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings.
		Flagler's second hotel in Palm Beach was the unpretentious Palm Beach Inn, about a quarter mile east of the Royal Poinciana on the Atlantic Ocean which was built as an annex for bathers and swimmers.
	www.hotelinteractive.com /hi_index.asp?page_id=5000&article_id=5287 (2278 words)

	Henry Morrison Flagler
		Henry Flagler was instrumental in building the 7 Mile Bridge that connects the Florida Keys to the mainland.
		Flagler hired John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings at McKim, Meade and White of New York, the leading architectural firm in the U.S., to design the hotel.
		Still ambitious, Flagler turned his attention to the string of coral islands that extended in a graceful, 150-mile arc from Biscayne Bay to Key West, aiming to connect the keys with a rail line.
	www.lhonline.com /article/10877 (1624 words)

	Lake Catherine Apartments - History
		Flagler built this small hotel in Chuluota as a hunting lodge for people staying at his St. Augustine hotels, who wanted a trip to the country.
		Henry Flagler was born in 1830 in New York.
		Henry Flagler decided to extend his East Coast Railway to Key West, Florida’s most populated city (20,000) at the time.
	www.angelfire.com /fl5/apartments/history.html (1411 words)

	Today in History: January 22
		Flagler then built a railroad bridge across the St. John's River to Palm Beach, where he developed two large hotels: the Hotel Royal Poinciana and the Palm Beach Inn, later renamed The Breakers.
		Flagler's mansion, Whitehall, a wedding gift to his third wife Lily Kenan, was constructed in Palm Beach in 1902.
		Henry Flagler died in 1913, a year after the completion of his railway to its southern terminus in Key West.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan22.html (634 words)

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		Miami- Henry Flagler built hotels and railways and purchased land in a little town and attracted the tourists to it.
		Flagler soon became partner with the grain company D.M. Harkness and Company and that is how he met John Rockefeller Picture of Henry Flagler and his wife Mary Lily Kenan- A picture taken around 1902 of Henry Flagler and his 3rd wife Mary.
		Admission letter to Flagler College- I was admitted to Flagler College in January 2003 and went to the school for a semester before I came to St. Petersburg.
	www.stpt.usf.edu /coe/ss/classes/fall2004/artifact_bags/601/flagler.doc (443 words)

	In 1912, a proud Henry Flagler rode the first train into Key West, marking the completion of the Florida East Coast ...
		In 1912, a proud Henry Flagler rode the first train into Key West, marking the completion of the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway's overseas railroad connection to Key West and the linkage by railway of the entire east coast of Florida.
		Flagler next purchased three additional existing railroads: the St. John's Railway, the St. Augustine and Palatka Railway, and the St. Johns and Halifax River Railway so that he could provide extended rail service on standard gauge tracks.
		Never one to rest on his laurels, Flagler next sought perhaps his greatest challenge: the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West, a city of almost 20,000 inhabitants located 128 miles beyond the end of the Florida peninsula.
	overseasrailroad.railfan.net /dream.htm (1083 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henry Morrison Flagler, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The firm of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler became the Standard Oil Company in 1870, and Flagler was connected with it until 1911, resigning as vice president, however, in 1908.
		Flagler visited Florida in 1883, and, annoyed at the inadequate transportation and hotel facilities, he undertook to improve them.
		Altogether Flagler invested over $40 million in the peninsula and, more than any other, was responsible for Florida's growth.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Flagler.html (321 words)

	Henry Flagler biography (The Man Who Invented Florida) [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Flagler, born in 1830, was a partner with John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company.
		It seemed to all, including Flagler, that this was the culmination of his career in developing Florida and yet the biggest challenge was yet to come.
		Flagler had no intention of ever extending the railroad into South Florida until his socialite buddy, JULIA TUTTLE brought him an Orange Blossom in New York in the dead of winter.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b619dc85bba.htm (1730 words)

	staugustine.com - 100 Years of News
		Flagler's dream of turning St. Augustine into a winter playground for the wealthy throughout the world became an empire of hotels, railroads, resorts and related projects that included agricultural development, civic improvement and the erection of churches and hospitals.
		Flagler's first visit to Florida was at the recommendation of the physicians treating his ailing wife, Mary Harkness.
		Flagler is buried in the mausoleum adjoining the Memorial Presbyterian Church.
	www.staugustine.com /100years/1894_winter.shtml (818 words)

	Flagler Development Company : About Us : History
		Henry Morrison Flagler first came to Florida in the winter of 1883.
		Flagler's Florida empire, spawned by his railway, stretched the entire length of the state, creating bustling cities and in the process amassing thousands of acres of land.
		Henry Flagler died in May of 1913, but he left a legacy that has grown into a publicly traded corporation, Florida East Coast Industries and Flagler Development Company.
	www.flaglerdev.com /about/history.php (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed An ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Henry Morrison Flagler, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partner and, in many eyes, the true genius behind that company, embarked on the project in 1905 when he was 74 years old.
		This prompts Standiford to argue that Flagler's undertaking was a "folly" from the start, as his contemporaries claimed, and that his story constitutes a classic "tragedy." In fact, the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) was undone as much, if not more, by a force Standiford never mentions: the internal combustion engine.
		Standiford is generally clear and readable in describing the incredible determination of Flagler and the extraordinary skill and hard work of the engineers and laborers who brought his dream to fruition.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Train-Paradise-Spectacular-Railroad/dp/1400049474 (1515 words)

	Famous Floridians: Henry Morrison Flagler
		Flagler, his wife, and children lived in New York but his wife’s health was not good.
		Henry Flagler intended his next expansion, West Palm Beach, to be the end of his railroad system, but during 1894 and 1895, severe freezes hit the area.
		Henry Flagler said, “I have always been contented, but I have never been satisfied.” When he began his development on the east coast of Florida, it was largely an uninhabited frontier.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /florida/lessons/flagler/flagler.htm (651 words)

	staugustine.com: visitor's guide > history > Henry Flagler
		Henry M. Flagler's name strikes less of a spark of recognition than that of his partner in the Standard Oil business, John D. Rockefeller.
		As the hotels were modifying the skyline, Flagler was also developing a railroad, building churches, establishing a hospital, erecting commodious homes for his business officers and molding comfortable neighborhoods for his employees.
		Flagler died in 1913 at the age of 93, and is buried alongside his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a mausoleum in Memorial Presbyterian Church, here in the city that drew him to Florida.
	www.staugustine.com /visit/history/flagler.shtml (475 words)

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