Research Catalog

Title

Pioneering in the panhandle : a look at selected events and families of South Santa Rosa County, Florida / by William James Wells.

Author

Wells, William James, 1899-

Publication

[s.l. : s.n.], c1976

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Details

Description

vi, 285 p., p. A-Z : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > Santa Rosa County
• Santa Rosa County (Fla.) > History
• Santa Rosa County (Fla.) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• HCL copy imperfect: p. 267-270, 272-278 inserted upside-down.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early inhabitants -- Landmarks and place names -- Creation of Santa Rosa County -- Brigadier General William Miller -- The Axelson family -- The lumber industry -- First schools in South Santa Rosa County -- The Walton Guards -- Transportation -- Rube Burrow -- The Harvell family -- The turpentine industry -- The Brooks family -- Gulf Breeze -- Santa Rosa Park -- The Duncan family -- The Broxson family -- William Henry Colley -- Cyrus Grimes -- Maren Lee Balkum -- Thomas F. Alford -- Cattle tick eradication, the screw worm fly -- West Florida for sale -- Alfred Lewis -- Noah Jordan -- Jesse H. Donaldson -- Churches of the bay area -- Marius Martin Davis -- The Nelson family -- Post offices and postmasters -- Colonel Guy H. Wyman -- Santa Rosa Island -- Columbus Hurst -- The Tolbert family -- Charles Felon Jernigan -- Duncan A. McLean -- John Lafayette Williams -- Peter Mills -- Mary Esther, the Rogers family -- Charles Shipley -- John V. Anderson -- W.H. Stephens -- The Condon family -- John White -- Edward Marvin Robbins -- Creation of Okaloosa County -- The Wells family.

LCCN

^^^77151923^

OCLC

• 2946897
• SCSB-12914906

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library