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Drawing of Chaires' Verdura Plantation house, Leon County, Florida. Benjamin Chaires Sr. (1786–1838) was an American planter, land owner, banker and investor in Territorial Florida, and may have been the richest man in Florida in the 1830s. He was involved in the creation of the first railroads in Florida.
William Joseph Curry was born in 1821 on Green Turtle Cay in the Bahamas. He arrived in Key West from the Bahamas in 1837 at age 16. [1] Like many "conchs", he was a poor white Bahamian who immigrated to Key West for economic opportunity.
In the 1996 book The Wealthy 100, authors Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther placed John D. Rockefeller atop the list of the richest Americans in history, followed by Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor. [9] Bill Gates was the top living person, coming in fifth.
Arkansas: Jim Walton, $63.6 billion. The youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton is the chairman of his family’s Arvest Bank and the richest member of the group of heirs that Forbes says own ...
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Florida: Senate: Yes 259.7 3 Mark Warner: Democratic: Virginia: Senate Yes 214.1 4 Greg Gianforte: Republican Montana: House: No 189.3 5 Paul Mitchell: Republican Michigan: House No 179.6 6 Mitt Romney: Republican Utah: Senate Yes 174.5 7 Vernon Buchanan: Republican Florida House Yes 157.2 8 Mike Braun: Republican Indiana: Senate Yes 136.8 9 ...
A Land Remembered is a best-selling novel written by author Patrick D. Smith, and published in 1984 by Pineapple Press. It is historical fiction set mostly in pioneer or "cracker" Florida. The story covers over a century of Florida history from 1858 to 1968. It is available in both hardcover and trade paperback editions.