Born on April 19, 1857, to Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Sr. and Mary Dorcas Parsons Broward in rural Duval County, Florida. His parents were American, but he had French heritage from his paternal line. He spent his childhood on a series for family farms along the St....
Francis Philip Fleming was born on September 28, 1841, and was the oldest of Lewis Fleming and his second wife Margaret Seton Fleming three children. He had two brothers, Charles Seton and Frederick A. He also had two half-siblings from his father’s first marriage to...
Born on January 15, 1858, in Greenwood, South Carolina, looked to have a life in the military. He attended the Carolina Military Institute and went on to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point. He would have graduated from West Point in 1882, except...
William Sherman Jennings was born in Walnut Hill, Illinois. After attending public schools near Marion County, he attended Southern Illinois University and graduated in 1883. He then went on to study law at Union College of Law in Chicago. The school is now known as...
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, he moved with his parents Thomas and Elizabeth Starns Mitchell in 1846, at the age of fifteen to Jacksonville, Florida, and then shortly thereafter to Tampa, Florida. He had six brothers and two sisters. Mitchell’s early education...
Born in Richmond, Massachusetts on March 15, 1831, Edward Aylesworth Perry was the fourth child of Asa and Philura Perry. He was a descendant of Arthur Perry, one of the earliest settlers of New England. After briefly attending Yale University, in 1853, he moved to...
