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[3], Flagler attended local schools through eighth grade.

The company expanded into the grain and distillery businesses, and the latter was sold after making considerable money. "[27] Over time foreign competition and new finds abroad eroded his dominance.

When son Harry Harkness Flagler was born in December of 1870, Mary's frail health was greatly weakened by giving birth.

[citation needed], In 1862, Flagler and his brother-in-law Barney Hamlin York (18331884) founded the Flagler and York Salt Company, a salt mining and production business in Saginaw, Michigan. He himself is located to the side of them. He even owned newspapers in Florida. "When John D. Rockefeller was asked if the Standard Oil company was the result of his thinking, he answered, 'No, sir.

If they refused the offer, Flagler and Rockefeller told them they would run them into bankruptcy and then cheaply buy up their assets at auction. Flagler's son dropped out of school and failed to follow his father into business, causing a lifelong rift between the two men.

As Henry's businesses prospered, they moved to New York City.
It seems that if too many limits had been placed on Henry Flagler's projects, St. Augustine would not be the city we know today. Played by Tom Amandes.



Henry Flalger entombed on the right Jennie Louise is currently entombed inside of the church with her infant daughter, Majorie, in her arms. The Alcazar Hotel and Casa Monica Hotel have their own fascinating histories.

[21], Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States through horizontal integration.

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Flagler went on to build the Memorial Presbyterian Church for Jennie and her baby daughter Margery in St. Augustine. Bostonian Franklin W. Smith had recently built his winter home, the Villa Zorayda, which caught Flagler's eye almost immediately. St. Augustine city officials and businessmen were mostly grateful that Henry Flagler had chosen their little hamlet to 'please himself' by developing it and filling it with tourists. One of the grain brokers Only his son Harry Harkness Flagler survived of the three children by his first marriage in 1853 to Mary Harkness. PROLOGUE: In 1844, Henry Flagler dropped out of school. Henry Morrison Flagler was born on January 2, 1830. In 1885 he decided to build a luxury hotel there which would attract the country's elite. The accommodation features a satellite TV.

One day when very old he went on a drunken spree. He returned to St. Augustine in 1885 and made Smith an offer.

[citation needed], By the end of the American Civil War, Cleveland was one of the five main refining centers in the U.S. (besides Pittsburgh, New York City, Philadelphia, and the region in northwestern Pennsylvania where most of the oil originated).

Henry Flagler was seventy-one, whilst his beaming bride was thirty-four. The case can be made that Flagler was the intellectual genius who devised both the overall concepts and the details of the company policies and programs that turned Standard Oil into the most feared, powerful, and profitable company of the 19th and early . Due to the harsh working and living conditions in the railway construction camps, many workers became victims of debt slavery. Flagler commissioned the architects and builders of his other St. Augustine buildings to create the Venetian Renaissance Revival style . Despite her frail health, though, she was the only one of Henry Flagler's three wives to bear him any children. Mary Harkness had been frail since childhood and her father often sent to a boarding school Savannah, Georgia as a means of sparing her from harsh northern winters. Version accessed: St. Augustine, FL: Historic Print & Map Company, 2004.


Through his work with the Harkness company, Henry Flagler made the acquaintance of John D. Rockefeller.

1888: The Ponce de Leon Hotel in St. Augustine, 1888: The Casa Monica/ Cordova Hotel in St. Augustine, 1894: The Royal Poinciana Hotel in Palm Beach (on Lake Worth), 1897: The Royal Palm Hotel on the banks of the Miami River, 1901: The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach (on the Atlantic Coast).

[16] The railroad, seeing Standard's incursion into the transportation and pipeline fields, struck back and formed a subsidiary to buy and build oil refineries and pipelines. It was a small town of roughly 1,000 individuals, but familial connections led to a job at a general store. Covert, Robert. When the city was incorporated in 1896, its citizens wanted to honor the man responsible for its growth by naming it "Flagler". Day 2 - Flagler Legacy Tour - Flagler's Churches - St. Augustine Distillery - Dinner at Ice Plant Bar This morning after breakfast, meet your local guide for a Flagler Legacy Tour. Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Architecture & Decoration. He married his second wife, Miss Ida Shrouds, the daughter of a Philadelphia minister, in 1883. When asked by the president of Rollins College in Winter Park about his philanthropic efforts, Flagler reportedly replied, "I believe this state is the easiest place for many men to gain a living. Enamoured by what Henry Flagler had been up to down south, droves of rich tourists made that harrowing journey to St. Augustine.

The committee ultimately discovered the previously unknown scope of Standard Oil's business interests. A Second Wife and a Second Career. [52] A spouse's mental incapacity was later restored by the legislature as a grounds for dissolution of marriage, and remains the law of Florida today. [12], Undeterred, though vilified for the first time by the press, Flagler and Rockefeller continued with their self-reinforcing cycle of buying competing refiners, improving the efficiency of operations, pressing for discounts on oil shipments, undercutting competition, making secret deals, raising investment pools, and buying rivals out. Flagler gave them the honored center positions in the mausoleum. Flagler is quoted to have responded thusly: "There was once a good church member who had always lived a correct life until well advanced in years. To add to the sting, Henry 'Harry' Flagler was generally known as Harry Harkness, showing more deference for his mother than his father.

As elated as the couple was to meet their first and only son, her condition made planning for Harry's future feel disturbingly somber. As he grew older, he became determined to never be poor again.

Finally, Dan Harkness (7 perhaps Henry's favorite sibling), was Henry's mother's son from her first husband. Researching those perspectives is like playing the telephone game with the dead; something is bound to get confused.). [citation needed].

It added its own pipelines, tank cars, and home delivery network. In the kerosene industry, Standard Oil replaced the old distribution system with its own vertical system. After construction for the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar were underway in St. Augustine, Flagler's railroad properties started to expand southwards. Flagler was in a special position to make those deals due to his connections as a grain merchant. "[57][58], According to historian Joe Knetsch, reformers and muckrakers exaggerated charges of peonage regarding construction of the Florida East Coast Railway in 1893 to 1909. Indeed, Flagler's second sojourn to St. Augustine went off without a hitch the recently constructed San Marco hotel accommodated him and Ida Alice well, and he found himself to be amongst peers instead of invalids.

She documented the company's espionage, price wars, heavy-handed marketing tactics, and courtroom evasions. A deal brokered by Henry Clay Frick exchanged Standard's iron interests for U.S. Steel stock and gave Rockefeller and his son membership on the company's board of directors. We correct them as soon as they come to our knowledge. He was a founder of Standard Oil. He built a railroad bridge across the St. Johns River to gain access to the southern half of the state and purchased the Hotel Ormond, just north of Daytona. the Trust and Non-Profit Organization established by Flagler's grand-daughter Jean Flagler Matthews, to preserve Whitehall, has . NY By genealogy.com user October 24, 1999 at 04:39:45.

It supplied kerosene by tank cars that brought the fuel to local markets, and tank wagons then delivered to retail customers, thus bypassing the existing network of wholesale jobbers. Today, when you ask someone if they know about Henry Flagler, they are likely to answer with a shake of their head and a shrug. Standard's most potent weapons against competitors were underselling, differential pricing, and secret transportation rebates.

Smith helped train the masons on the mixing and pouring techniques he used on Zorayda. You see, during the Gilded Age [and for far too long after it], women could be sent to a mental institution for just about anything.

[34] Although her work prompted a huge backlash against the company, Tarbell claims to have been surprised at its magnitude. 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.

He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway.

Featuring air conditioning, The Henry Flagler offers accommodations in Layton. Resources His body was sent to St. Augustine on May 23 where he was laid to rest along side of his his first wife Mary Harkness in the Memorial Presbyterian Church mausoleum built for his daughter Jennie Louise. This conflict created a breach between father and son that lasted until Henry Flagler was on his deathbed. 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. Rockefeller. 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.

[54] Built in 1902 as a wedding present to Mary Lily, Whitehall (now the Flagler Museum) was a 60,000-square-foot (5,600m) winter retreat that established the Palm Beach "season" of about 812 weeks, for the wealthy of America's Gilded Age.

"Henry M. Flagler's Hotel Ponce de Len.".

[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.

As the 1870s progressed, Henry Flagler, John D. Rockefeller, and their families began to move from Cleveland to New York and back again about twice a year such were the demands of their beloved business.

Flagler wanted to take advantage of additional trade with Cuba and Latin America as well as the increased trade with the west that the Panama Canal would bring. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler inherited the majority of Henry Flagler's fortune but was unlucky enough to die of an apparent heart attack, only five years after Flagler's death. At the age of 14, after completing the eighth grade, Flagler moved to Bellevue, Ohio where he found work with his cousins in the grain store of L.G.

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It was Flagler's idea to use the rebate system to strengthen the firm's position against competitors and the transporting enterprises alike. The top-ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named for Flagler and his wife, who was an early benefactor of UNC along with her family and descendants.

In 1878, his wife Mary fell ill, and died on May 18, 1881, at age 47, leaving Henry Flagler with a young son to raise alone. Control of the Flagler fortune largely passed into the hands of Mary Lily Kenan's family of sisters and brother, who survived into the 1960s. Tarbell's father had been driven out of the oil business during the South Improvement Company affair. However, this building's history is tragic and short.

All this is to say that the winter and spring of 1885 were life-changing for Henry Flagler and his circle. Rockefeller admitted later, "We realized that public sentiment would be against us if we actually refined all the oil. In a few years, it seems he embraced the life of a wealthy widower.

He was twenty-three and she was twenty and they were married in her father's home.

His wife, Mary Harkness, had never been of robust health; she had borne three children. Through this business, Flagler became acquainted with John D. Rockefeller, who worked as a commission agent with Hewitt and Tuttle for the Harkness Grain Company. It was initially intended to house entertainment amenities for the Ponce de Leon guests but was soon reimagined as its own hotel.

First, Dr. Anderson worked through the bureaucracy to get Flagler approval to fill in the marshland that was west of the original town plan.

At age 23, Flagler married the daughter of the owner, Mary Harkness (Wright .

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Perhaps fortunately for Smith, he couldn't come up with the funds,[45] so Flagler began construction of the 540-room Ponce de Leon Hotel by himself, but spent several times his original estimate. [20] The New York State Legislature's Hepburn Committee in 1879 conducted hearings in response to the complaints of local merchants that were not involved in the oil trade in order to investigate railroad rebate practices. His father was a Presbyterian minister, Isaac Flagler. An immense engineering effort was required to cut through the wilderness and marsh from St. Augustine to Palm Beach.

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 . As a result, Flagler and Rockefeller and their associates owned dozens of separate corporations, each of which operated in just one state; the management of the whole enterprise was rather unwieldy. Though Henry Flagler didn't join in on the war, it certainly affected his career choices. There, they were both given work by Lamon Harkness, who was the brother of Dan's late father. [22] Despite improving the quality and availability of kerosene products while greatly reducing their cost to the public (the price of kerosene dropped by nearly 80% over the life of the company), Standard Oil's business practices created intense controversy. His father, Isaac Flagler, was a Presbyterian minister.

Henry explained: "We worked night and day, making good oil as cheaply as possible and selling it for all we could get. Castleden, Louise Decatur. I do not believe any one else would develop it if I do not, but I do hope to live long enough to prove I am a good business man by getting a dividend on my investment. Harry, her son, was eleven years old.

After many years of work, it opened on January 10, 1888, and was an instant success. (2022) "Historical Person Profile: Henry Flagler." He became known as the Father of Miami, Florida. The Early Years of The Ponce de Leon: Clippings from an Old Scrap Book of those days. Flagler dredged a channel, built streets, instituted the first water and power systems, and financed the city's first newspaper, The Metropolis. At the same time, he began to have an affair with Mary Lily Kenan; by 1899, newspapers began to openly question whether the two were having an affair. Indeed, Mary Harkness Flagler's ailments first brought Henry Flagler to Far Florida. Was Colonel Henry Ostrom's first wife Elizabeth FLAGLER?

To get a more in-depth narrative of the life of that building complex, visit The Ponce de Leon Hotel's Historical Place profile on our website. She is next to her mother and Flagler's first wife, Marjorie Mary Harkness Flagler. This was the case for many wealthy men during the Civil War, including Henry's future business partner, John D. Rockefeller.

[29] Robert Nobel had established his own refining enterprise in the abundant and cheaper Russian oil fields, including the region's first pipeline and the world's first oil tanker.

This is somewhat my case. The baby, named Margery, died when she was only a few hours old. During the early 1880s, Flagler outsourced the care of young Harry to his half-sister Carrie and daughter Jennie Louise. Their estate was called Kirkside and was built west of the Ponce de Leon property. Perhaps Henry Flagler already planned that he would need a physician to confirm his wife suffered from insanity.

Mary Harkness Flagler was the sweet, unpretentious first wife of Henry. VisitStAugustine.com. In 1885, Standard Oil moved its corporate headquarters to New York City to the iconic 26 Broadway location.

New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. By the end of the 1870s, Standard was refining over 90% of the oil in the U.S.[15], In 1877, Standard clashed with Thomas A. Scott the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, its chief hauler. "For the longest time, I could not imagine why Jean would save Whitehall," said Mr. Ponce. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press & Crown Publishers, 2002. He used convict leasing "a method undertaken by the Southern States to replace the economic setup of slavery"[47] to modernize the existing railroads, allowing them to accommodate heavier loads and more traffic.[48]. (2022). The public and the media in Florida exploded with the scandal of it all. Her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, was fifty-one years old.

After a time, Flagler began to turn over some of his duties at Standard Oil to younger blood.

Mendez, Jesus. He was also 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. Seven years later he became a senior salesman with a salary of $ 400 per year.

Congress concluded that newspapers in Florida and across the South spread the deceitful news against Flagler.

In fact, this was a struggle that was occurring all over the country. [60][61] At 3 p.m. on the day of the funeral, May 23, 1913, every engine on the Florida East Coast Railway stopped wherever it was for ten minutes as a tribute to Flagler.

See more ideas about flagler, key west, florida. "[59], In March 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of marble stairs at Whitehall.

As fate would have it, Henry had been invited to work at a general store by a family . [citation needed], In 1912, the Florida Overseas Railroad was completed to Key West. Knetsch concludes that "Flagler in fact provided health care for his employees and was a far better employer than the press alleged.

In Bellevue he courted and married his step-uncle's (Lamon Harkness) second daughter, Mary Harkness, November 9, 1853.

Henry is also best known as, Entrepreneur best known as the founder of Standard Oil and for helping to develop what came to be known as the Florida East Coast Railway. It was that shrewd attitude that caught the eye of one John D. Rockefeller. Estate All the things he owned. Please disable your ad blocker to view the video content.

Franklin W. Smith had just finished building Villa Zorayda and Flagler offered to buy it for his honeymoon.

At last in 1911, the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Awakening of Saint Augustine: The Anderson Family and the Oldest City: 1821-1924.

They had 3 children: Maud Aiken and 2 other children. 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. What kind of a man was Henry Flagler and why do you think this? (However, when Harry Flagler was asked about this later, he denied that Ida Alice had ever been his mother's nurse.).

[25] The public and the press were immediately suspicious of this new legal entity, and other businesses seized upon the idea and emulated it, further inflaming public sentiment.

Henry had 3 siblings: Melacinda Flagler and 2 other siblings. He was the baby of the household, being born several years after the youngest of his siblings.

(To get a first-hand account of the journey from New York to St. Augustine, visit our page on Constance Fenimore Woolson's article "The Ancient City In Two Parts," which was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1874.). "Our Own Riviera," Harper's New Monthly Magazine.

His lifelong interest was in music and its promotion, primarily in New York City. Les Standiford (Goodreads Author) (shelved 3 times as henry-flagler) avg rating 4.08 3,518 ratings published 2002. She lived the rest of her life in New York, under strict supervision by her guardians (who were chosen by Flagler, of course). He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. She left the millions she inherited to members of her family and to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

What happened to Henry Flagler's daughter?

After Mary died Henry married her nurse-caregiver, Ida Alice Shourds.

He never recovered and died in Palm Beach of his injuries on May 20, 1913 at 83 years of age. However, a great cloud of bad luck was soon to fall over the Flagler family.

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