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Flagler Enterprises Letters, 1893

 

Summary

Extent:
2.00 items
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Flagler Enterprises Letters, Special Collections and Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_1964-107.

Background

Scope and content:

The two manuscript letters, dated 1893, are by George F. Miles, St. Augustine, Florida to Landford Fleming, Esq., C.M.G., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and refer to matters pertaining to Flagler enterprises. Mr. Miles at that time was general manager and director of the Florida Coast Line Canal and Transportation Company with headquarters at St. Augustine, and Mr. Fleming was a stockholder in the "Boston and Florida Land Company."

Biographical / historical:

Henry Flagler was born in 1830 in the state of New York. After a series of business ventures, Flagler finally struck it big in the early 1870s when he went into partnership with John D. Rockefeller and formed Standard Oil, which quickly became the top oil refinery company in the U.S. After ten years in New York City with Standard Oil, he moved to St. Augustine to pursue transportation and tourism ventures in Florida.

Processing information:

Processed June 17, 1964

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Flagler Enterprises Letters, Special Collections and Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/MSS_1964-107.

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA