View Henry Flagler.pptx from HISTORY 10 at Jupiter High School. The visionary widow from Ohio bought hundreds of acres at what is now Downtown Miami, moved down on a barge, and eventually convinced railroad man Henry Flagler to extend his new railway to the Miami River by sending him an unusual package. As such, the salt industry was tax-exempt during the Civil War and essential employees were exempt from the draft. It was in the late 1850s that Flagler met John D. Rockefeller who was working for a Cleveland grain broker and traveled the hinterlands in search of business. Henry Morrison Flagler (1830 - 1913) Henry Morrison Flagler Born 2 Jan 1830 in Hopewell, Ontario, New York, USA Ancestors Son of Isaac Flagler and Elizabeth (Caldwell) Flagler Brother of Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness [half] and Daniel Morrison Harkness [half] Husband of Mary (Harkness) Flagler married 9 Nov 1853 (to 18 May 1881) in Huron, Ohio Carolina Story: Virtual Museum of University History", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Lily_Kenan_Flagler_Bingham&oldid=1125142626, This page was last edited on 2 December 2022, at 11:49. "Historical Person Profile: Henry Flagler." Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 - May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. In fact, Henry Flagler was so pleased with his Florida projects that he began the construction of a second hotel, just across the street from the Ponce de Leon. [citation needed], One of the most effective attacks on Flagler and Rockefeller and their firm was the 1905 publication of The History of the Standard Oil Company, by Ida Tarbell, a leading muckraker. The rumor mill suspected that this change in priorities was due to Henry's association with one Ida Alice Shourds a red-haired, green-eyed actress who was rumored to have been Mary Harkness Flagler's nursemaid during her final years. The accommodation features a satellite TV. In an overall calculation of America's oil refineries' assets and capital, Standard Oil surpassed all. [28], Even though 85% of world crude production was still coming from Pennsylvania wells in the 1880s, overseas drilling in Russia and Asia began to reach the world market. Visually exquisite, the Flagler Memorial Presbyterian Church was built by Henry Flagler in 1889. You see, demand for salt had risen with the beginning of the war it was necessary for the preservation of food for the troops. When he was a toddler, his two older half-sisters moved to New York to live with family, and Caroline ('Carrie') and Dan were Henry's constant companions. Cleveland became very well known for oil refining, as, "More and more crude oil was shipped from the oil regions to Cleveland for the refining process because of transportation facilities and the aggressiveness of the refiners there. Henry is originated from United States. By 1852, Henry had saved enough money to become the one-third-owner of the Harkness & Company alongside his half-brother Dan and Dan's uncle Lamon. Along with the mounting unrest between himself and Ida Alice, Flagler was also butting heads with his son, Harry. Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) built this church to the glory of God as a memorial to his daughter, Jennie Louise Flagler Benedict, who passed away as a result of childbirth in 1889. The Hotel Alcazar is now the location of St. Augustine City Hall and the Lightner Museum, and the Casa Monica Hotel is still in business to this day. However, a great cloud of bad luck was soon to fall over the Flagler family. For a time, Ida Alice and Henry Flagler both stayed and entertained guests within Kirkside, but trouble was on the horizon for Flagler and his second wife. He was even given permission to use the coquina quarry on Anastasia Island to source materials for his state-of-the-art hotels. Henry Flagler's daughter, Jennie Louise Benedict, had a baby girl on February 9, 1889. It was reported that people along the railway line waited all night for the passing of the funeral train as it traveled from Palm Beach to St. [33] Ohio was especially vigorous in applying its state anti-trust laws, and finally forced a separation of Standard Oil of Ohio from the rest of the company in 1892, the first step in the dissolution of the trust. Flagler and Rockefeller finally gave up their dream of controlling all the world's oil refining. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway.He is known as the father of Miami, Florida. "[40], By 1892, Standard Oil had a monopoly over all oil refineries in the United States. [citation needed], Needing capital for his new venture, Rockefeller approached Flagler in 1867. Flagler. Stately and serious, genteel and generous some have even referred to him as "Uncle Henry.". Only his son Harry Harkness Flagler survived of the three children by his first marriage in 1853 to Mary Harkness. For the first time, Flagler was able to experience the warm, sunny atmosphere of Florida. "[59], In March 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of marble stairs at Whitehall. As he grew older, he became determined to never be poor again. A large portion of his estate was designated for a "niece" who was said actually to be a child born out of wedlock. As our little daughter is only 8 month old we wanted to provide her a sheltered place to sit in in the 25 degrees and we wanted to visit the house while we swap over looking after her as . He was twenty-three and she was twenty and they were married in her father's home. It added its own pipelines, tank cars, and home delivery network. His mother, the widowed Elizabeth Caldwell (Morrison) Harkness, had brought two sons to the marriage with Flagler from her previous marriage to widower Dr. David Harkness of Milan, Ohio. A Second Wife and a Second Career. The couple had two daughters, Jennie Louise, born in 1855, and Carrie, born in 1858. In a few years, it seems he embraced the life of a wealthy widower. She lived the rest of her life in New York, under strict supervision by her guardians (who were chosen by Flagler, of course). [56][57], When the Department of Justice prosecuted four Flagler employment agents in 1908 for "conspiracy to hold workmen in peonage and slavery," the Flagler-owned The Florida Times-Union and other Florida newspapers depending on the Times-Union for material or owned by Flagler published articles to "influence juries and public opinion." [43], When Flagler's first wife Mary (ne Harkness) fell sick, his physician recommended they travel to Jacksonville for the winter to escape the brutal conditions of the North. To further convince Flagler to continue the railroad to Miami, he was offered land in exchange for laying rail tracks from private landowners, the Florida East Coast Canal and Transportation Company, and the Boston and Florida Atlantic Coast Land Company. He also built the Alcazar Hotel as an overflow hotel for the Ponce de Leon Hotel. Both of Henry's parents had been married previously. After two years of institutionalization and much assessment by the courts, Ida Alice Shourds Flagler was legally ruled incurably insane in 1899. She left the millions she inherited to members of her family and to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Henry Morrison Flagler was born in 1830 into humble circumstances, his father a Presbyterian minister. Here is a list of Flagler's hotels (that he either purchased or built) along Florida's east coast: To learn more about Henry Flagler's East Coast Railway, consult the 'Works Referenced' section at the end of this Historical Person profile. "How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida Decades After the Civil War." Two years after her death, he married her nurse, Ida Alice Shourds. Henry Flagler: The Astonishing Life and Times of the Visionary Robber Baron Who Founded Florida. Flagler controlled a vast fortune, which he earned by buying out small oil refineries and creating a monopoly with Standard Oil. (However, when Harry Flagler was asked about this later, he denied that Ida Alice had ever been his mother's nurse.). After Mary died Henry married her nurse-caregiver, Ida Alice Shourds. Because he had a hard personal life and was a cutthroat business man. Her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, was fifty-one years old. It was due largely to the efforts of Henry M. Flagler and John D. Within six years, Henry was earning enough money to purchase a showy Victorian house in Bellevue. Henry started spending a great deal more time in Florida, soon claiming the state as his permanent residence. Having had no prior experience in the salt industry, the Flagler & York company flopped and Henry lost around $100,000 ($100K in 1865 is nearly $2 million in 2022). "[35], Flagler and Rockefeller continued to consolidate their oil interests as best they could until New Jersey, in 1909, changed its incorporation laws to effectively allow a re-creation of the trust in the form of a single holding company. He married his second wife, Miss Ida Shrouds, the daughter of a Philadelphia minister, in 1883. In 1885 he decided to build a luxury hotel there which would attract the country's elite. Henry Flagler's most monumental accomplishment was realized only a year before he died. In 1853 Mary married Henry Morrison Flagler and together they were parents of three children. Carrie died at the age of 3. Henry Flagler passed away May 20, 1913, and the construction of the "Over-Sea" road served as an example of his substantial impact on the state. Immediately, she began taking advantage of the fortune she had married into like any budding socialite, she loved gowns, jewelry, and yachts. Mary's health was poor throughout her life, although she and Henry had three children: Jenny Louise, Carrie, and Harry Harkness. He was the baby of the household, being born several years after the youngest of his siblings. Municipal, State, and Federal government officials questioned how many limits they should place on these "Captains of Industry." [citation needed], When looking back at Flagler's life, after Flagler's death, George W. Perkins, of J.P. Morgan & Co., reflected, "But that any man could have the genius to see of what this wilderness of waterless sand and underbrush was capable and then have the nerve to build a railroad here, is more marvelous than similar development anywhere else in the world. Besides its two refineries and a barrel plant in Cleveland, it possessed a fleet of tank cars and warehouses in the oil regions as well as warehouses and tanks in New York. whereas said Henry M. Flagler has recently lost by death a beloved daughter and in affectionate remembrance of her has been desirous of erecting some worthy monument to her Memory and believing that nothing should be more accordant with her known wishes and the tenor of her life on earth than that such Memorial should be a temple devoted to the worship of God and the teaching of that living faith in which she lived and died has erected in the City of St. Augustine a church edifice in loving . Asylum Hospital for crazy people. To learn more about the history of those buildings, visit the Alcazar Hotel Historical Place profile or the Casa Monica Hotel Historical Place profile on our website. From there on out, Dr. Anderson was a major supporter and confidant of Henry Flagler, often acting as his business liaison in St. Augustine when Flagler was out of town. The railroad was financially unable to rebuild the destroyed sections, so the roadbed and remaining bridges were sold to the State of Florida, which built the Overseas Highway to Key West, using much of the remaining railway infrastructure. FLORIDA KEYS Henry Morrison Flagler never lived in the Florida Keys, but he left a more lasting and valuable mark on the island chain than many lifelong residents. Mrs. [36] The court ruled that the trust originated in illegal monopoly practices and ordered it to be broken up into 34 new companies. Dr. Shelton had attended Flagler's daughter Jennie Benedict when she died from complications after childbirth in 1889. Congress concluded that newspapers in Florida and across the South spread the deceitful news against Flagler. Flagler commissioned the architects and builders of his other St. Augustine buildings to create the Venetian Renaissance Revival style . I wish I had the brains to think of it. 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