Henry Flalger entombed on the right Jennie Louise is currently entombed inside of the church with her infant daughter, Majorie, in her arms. I was willing that they should combine and grow as big and wealthy as they could, but only by legitimate means. This conflict created a breach between father and son that lasted until Henry Flagler was on his deathbed. They were rightfully concerned about allowing a wildly wealthy individual to have that much control over the public works of St. Augustine. His personal dedication to the state of Florida was demonstrated when he began construction on his private residence, Kirkside, in St. Augustine. [11] The cartel received preferential treatment as a high-volume shipper, which included not just steep rebates of up to 50% for their product but also rebates for the shipment of competing products. Flagler's affiliation with the Harkness family would have a fortuitous effect upon his future. Henry Flagler's first visit to Florida was in the winter of 1878-9. At least, not yet. Harry Flagler was the only of Henry Flagler's children who outlived their father. Her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler, was fifty-one years old. 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. While many tourists were satisfied with the charms of rural Florida, the appeal quickly wore off for the Flaglers, Henry specifically. "I never had an animus against their size and wealth, never objected to their corporate form. According to historian David Leon Chandler, Henry Flagler is believed to either have bought a deferment in 1862 or provided the government supplies instead of service. As you can tell, Flagler spared no expense in constructing the Ponce de Leon Hotel, sometimes called 'The Prince of Hotels' by newspapers of the time. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham was an American philanthropist and heiress who became notorious when she married one of the richest men of the Gilded Age. NY By genealogy.com user October 24, 1999 at 04:39:45. "[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. One day when very old he went on a drunken spree. He was 14 years old, and leaving the home of his parents in Hopewell, N.J., to . Pratt's son, Charles Millard Pratt, became Secretary of Standard Oil. St. Augustine, FL: Flagler College, 2013. In fact, this was a struggle that was occurring all over the country. By 1849, Flagler was promoted to the sales staff at a salary of $40 per month. These included, among many others, Continental Oil, which became Conoco, now part of ConocoPhillips; Standard of Indiana, which became Amoco, now part of BP; Standard of California, which became Chevron; Standard of New Jersey, which became Esso (and later, Exxon), now part of ExxonMobil; Standard of New York, which became Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil; and Standard of Ohio, which became Sohio, now part of BP. In 1885 he decided to build a luxury hotel there which would attract the country's elite. By the start of the Civil War in 1861, Rockefeller was brokering most of the Harkness grain. So, Henry was the youngest of a large mixed family. Featuring air conditioning, The Henry Flagler offers accommodations in Layton. Henry Flagler didn't leave the sanitarium wanting, however, as Alice's estate (to which only her Flagler-hired guardians had direct access) was full of Standard Oil stocks. When the city was incorporated in 1896, its citizens wanted to honor the man responsible for its growth by naming it "Flagler". In the early 1900s Flagler, affiliated with John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company, conceived and oversaw the construction of the Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad, paving . July, 1975. pg. Gainesville, FL. In January of 1870 at the age of 40, Flagler officially co-founded Standard Oil alongside John D. Rockefeller. "How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida Decades After the Civil War." Sixty miles (97km) south, the area today known as Miami was reportedly unharmed by the freeze. While in this state he met his good pastor, to whom, being soundly upbraided for his condition, he replied, 'I've been giving all my days to the Lord hitherto, and now I'm taking one for myself. The company collapsed when the war undercut commercial demand for salt. [8] By 1872, it led the American oil refining industry, producing 10,000 barrels per day (1,600m3/d). However, Henry Flagler did not join his half-brother. Though a hard worker, Flagler was widely recognized as a ruthless businessman. "[38] Flagler and Rockefeller worked hard for their company to achieve such prominence. Birth Name: Henry Flagler Occupation: Entrepreneur Place Of Birth: NY Date Of Birth: January 2, 1830 Date Of Death: May 20, 1913 Cause Of Death: N/A Ethnicity: Unknown Nationality: American Henry Flagler was born on the 2nd of January, 1830. Henry Morrison Flagler was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil. [41] The history of American oil refining begins with Flagler and Rockefeller, as they built the biggest, most prosperous and monopolizing oil empire of their time: Standard Oil. Captain of the submarine USS Watertown (SSN-696) who reluctantly helps Harm and Mac with investigations involving a boat he commanded. Rockefeller admitted later, "We realized that public sentiment would be against us if we actually refined all the oil. Flagler was in a special position to make those deals due to his connections as a grain merchant. That craze mounted when two months later, Flagler filed for divorce in Dade County and was granted such on August 13th, 1901. Henry Flagler had realized his dream and slipped quietly from this world at his ocean cottage 'Nautalis' on May 20, 1913, in Palm Beach, Florida. [citation needed], By 1905, Flagler decided that his Florida East Coast Railway should be extended from Biscayne Bay to Key West, a point 128 miles (206km) past the end of the Florida peninsula. It was that shrewd attitude that caught the eye of one John D. Rockefeller. [2] Flagler's mother was Elizabeth Caldwell Harkness Flagler, Isaac's third wife and a widow who had a stepson, Stephen V. Harkness, and a son, Daniel M. Harkness, from her marriage to deceased widower David Harkness of Milan, Ohio. . Flagler encouraged fruit farming and settlement along his railway line and made many gifts to build hospitals, churches and schools in Florida. Chandler, David Leon. 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. In general, government officials (especially Andrew Anderson) permitted Flagler to widen the roads and to dredge marshes to establish neighborhoods. Her great-nephew Lawrence Louis Junior utilized some of those funds in founding Flagler College, where Henry Flagler's legacy lives on to this day. It was initially intended to house entertainment amenities for the Ponce de Leon guests but was soon reimagined as its own hotel. Henry Flagler, who was considered the "brain" Rockefeller "Standard Oil," better known perhaps as the creator of the "American Riviera" in Florida (Standiford, pp. Mary Lily outlived her first husband, Henry Flagler and inherited his huge fortune, married again three years later, and died under suspicious circumstances at aged fifty. Originally published by E.H. Reynolds in St. Augustine Florida, 1892. Two years later, he expanded his Florida holdings. His lifelong interest was in music and its promotion, primarily in New York City. [citation needed], The Overseas Railroad, also known as the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway, was heavily damaged and partially destroyed in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. [26] Its share of world oil refining topped out above 90% but slowly dropped to about 80% for the rest of the century. Ralph, Julian. [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. Commander John Flagler, USN. As he grew older, he became determined to never be poor again. Dr. Shelton had attended Flagler's daughter Jennie Benedict when she died from complications after childbirth in 1889. Flagler controlled a vast fortune, which he earned by buying out small oil refineries and creating a monopoly with Standard Oil. [17]This subsidiary, the Empire Transportation Company, which Joseph D. Potts created in 1865 and also ran, owned other assets including a small fleet of ships on the Great Lakes. The hotel, the Ponce de Leon, was a success. 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. 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. [13] Eventually, even former antagonists Pratt and Rogers saw the futility of continuing to compete against Standard Oil: in 1874, they made a secret agreement with their old nemesis to be acquired. His father was Isaac Flagler, a Presbyterian minister and great-grandson of Zacharra Flegler, whose family had emigrated from the German Palatinate region to Holland in 1688. Standard Oil also had the highest capitalization, totaling $26,000,000 (equivalent to $784million in 2021). When he was 23, Flagler married Mary Harkness, a frail, 20-year-old cousin of Dan Harkness. [citation needed], Flagler's third wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham was born in North Carolina. He was born in New York. An immense engineering effort was required to cut through the wilderness and marsh from St. Augustine to Palm Beach. However, the boom did not last. Imagine how many different perspectives a group of people can have about the same topic. Racked with bronchitis and unable to do much for herself, Mary joined Henry in the Buckingham Hotel. Version accessed: St. Augustine, FL: Historic Print & Map Company, 2004. 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. His father, Isaac Flagler, was a Presbyterian minister. When the Civil War broke out, Dan Harkness was among the first in Bellevue, Ohio to enlist in the Union efforts. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway. What happened to Henry Flagler's daughter? Graham, Thomas. Played by Tom Amandes. That same year Flagler completed the Hotel Continental in Jacksonville. Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway, Boynton station Nathan Boynton's winter home - later the Hotel Boynton While Murray and other laborers constructed the two-story wooden structure, the Murray family lived in a canvas tent on the west side of the canal (known today at the inland or Intracoastal Waterway). Reynolds, Charles B. 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. [64], On February 24, 2006, a statue of Flagler was unveiled in Key West near the spot where the Over-Sea Railroad once terminated. 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 . 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. Ida Alice Shourds became Ida Alice Shourds Flagler in June of 1883 and moved into the Flagler family home the day after their wedding. In 1885, Standard Oil moved its corporate headquarters to New York City to the iconic 26 Broadway location. [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. Due to the harsh working and living conditions in the railway construction camps, many workers became victims of debt slavery. As such, the salt industry was tax-exempt during the Civil War and essential employees were exempt from the draft. Many people were curious about Henry Flagler's decision to launch a new business venture during his twilight years. As we know, Flagler's business activity in Florida had earned him the attention of the public as well as state officials. VisitStAugustine.com, 2022. Last (and perhaps most importantly), the truth is a hard thing to garner when it comes to what happened in the past even harder than it is today. VisitStAugustine.com. 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. Flagler and Rockefeller finally gave up their dream of controlling all the world's oil refining. So, the Flagler family (Henry, Mary, little Harry, Jennie, and her first husband, John Arthur Hinckley) spent the winter of 1877-1878 in St. Augustine. [citation needed], In 1912, the Florida Overseas Railroad was completed to Key West. [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. 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. She was the daughter of Lamon G. Harkness and Julia Follet. PROLOGUE: In 1844, Henry Flagler dropped out of school. After their wedding, the couple traveled to Saint Augustine. In an overall calculation of America's oil refineries' assets and capital, Standard Oil surpassed all. She had been en route to St. Augustine from Charleston, South Carolina on the schooner Oneida. Indeed, Mary Harkness Flagler's ailments first brought Henry Flagler to Far Florida. 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. Flagler. After construction for the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar were underway in St. Augustine, Flagler's railroad properties started to expand southwards. [7] The partnership eventually grew into the Standard Oil Corporation. 91 is preserved inside a Beaux Arts pavilion built to look like a 19th-century railway palace. the Trust and Non-Profit Organization established by Flagler's grand-daughter Jean Flagler Matthews, to preserve Whitehall, has . 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 . Cutthroat Cruel business man. Two years later, Flagler built the Palm Beach Inn (renamed The Breakers in 1901), overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Palm Beach. Who was Henry Flagler? Melbert Cary died in 1941, and after his death Mary continued to divide her. 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. His parents were very poor and struggled to feed their family. [21], Standard Oil gradually gained almost complete control of oil refining and marketing in the United States through horizontal integration. His half-brother Daniel had left Hopewell to live and work with his paternal uncle Lamon G. Harkness, who had a store in Republic, Ohio. Indeed, there was a legal loophole provided to affluent Americans they were allowed to pay $300 to the government and hire a substitute to serve in their place. "[59], In March 1913, Flagler fell down a flight of marble stairs at Whitehall. He was twenty-three and she was twenty and they were married in her father's home. [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. Augustine. Resources It is one of his most significant projects, because it was constructed as a memorial to Flagler's only daughter, Jenny. 3 episodes. The couple traveled to St. Augustine, Florida, which they . It was Henry M. Luckily, the couple found the city to be even more promising than before. His grandson Solomon changed the spelling of the surname to Flagler and passed it on to his 11 children. Sets with similar terms swee1122 Rockefeller retained his nominal title as president until 1911 and he kept his stock. Dr. George G. Shelton, a graduate of New York's Homeopathic Medical College, was assisted by three nurses when Henry Flagler's daughter Jennie Louise Benedict died in 1889 following post-partum complications while journeying to visit her father on board the yacht Oneida headed to St. Augustine. 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. The family being of moderate means, Henry struck out from New York to Republic, Ohio in 1844. "[24] To the critics Flagler and Rockefeller replied, "In a business so large as ours some things are likely to be done which we cannot approve. Jul 1, 2020 - Explore Patricia Cipolla's board "Henry Flagler" on Pinterest. Carrie died at the age of 3. Those first two seasons during which Flagler hosted an innumerable amount of parties, electric light displays, and opulent dinners (all of which were accompanied by music from the best musicians of the time) were met with eager approval by guests and the press. He was even given permission to use the coquina quarry on Anastasia Island to source materials for his state-of-the-art hotels. "1892-A Year of Crucial Decisions in Florida", This page was last edited on 2 December 2022, at 15:49. [39] According to Allan Nevins, in John D. Rockefeller (p 292), "Standard Oil was born as a big enterprise, it had cut its teeth as a partnership and was now ready to plunge forward into a period of greater expansion and development. In 1869, Henry Flagler began buying out small oil refineries on behalf of John D. Rockefeller, who had it in his mind to monopolize the oil industry in Ohio. Dr. Shelton had attended Flagler's daughter Jennie Benedict when she died from complications after childbirth in 1889. 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. I wish I had the brains to think of it. Louis Comfort Tiffany (who was about ten years into his monumental career) was hired to decorate the hotel and craft its windows. Estate All the things he owned. As elated as the couple was to meet their first and only son, her condition made planning for Harry's future feel disturbingly somber. In 1853 Mary married Henry Morrison Flagler and together they were parents of three children. Hello students! The mausoleum adjacent to the church is where Flagler, his daughter, granddaughter and first wife are buried. Last Train to Paradise. It seemed a new leaf was turning for the little family of the Robber Baron. Henry Flagler was seventy-one, whilst his beaming bride was thirty-four. 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. Flagler suffered additional family tragedies when his oldest daughter died from complications of childbirth in 1899. (2022). The land owners were Julia Tuttle, whom he had met in Cleveland, Ohio, and William Brickell, who ran a trading post on the Miami River. [4], After the failure of his salt business in Saginaw, Flagler returned to Bellevue in 1866 and reentered the grain business as a commission merchant with the Harkness Grain Company. [30] Additional fields were discovered in Burma and Java. He also built the Alcazar Hotel as an overflow hotel for the Ponce de Leon Hotel. [34] Although her work prompted a huge backlash against the company, Tarbell claims to have been surprised at its magnitude. Graham, Thomas. Because he had a hard personal life and was a cutthroat business man. By 1896, Flagler's railroad, the Florida East Coast Railway, reached Biscayne Bay. In 1913, Henry Flagler passed away after breaking his hip falling down a staircase at Whitehall. 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. 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. Whatever the case may be, Flagler focused on his family and his fortune during the years of 1861 to 1865. Please disable your ad blocker to view the video content. Dan married Lamon's eldest daughter, Isabella, in 1849 (yes, they were first cousins). Finally, Dan Harkness (7 perhaps Henry's favorite sibling), was Henry's mother's son from her first husband. Two years after his first wife died in 1881, he married again. Mrs. So, when sources from the time period say that Ida Alice Shourds Flagler was insane, one must look closely and think critically. It was first established in Ohio. 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. Flagler's second wife, the former Ida Alice Shourds, was declared insane[50] by Flagler's friend Dr. Anderson in 1896 and was institutionalized on and off starting that year. [23] The firm was attacked by journalists and politicians throughout its existence, in part for these monopolistic methods, giving momentum to the antitrust movement. 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. 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. Mary and Henry's first child was Jennie Louise (born March 1855), then Carrie (born June 1858 and named after Henry Flagler's older half-sister, Caroline), then finally, Harry Flagler (born December 1870). Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean (Paperback) by. As success quickly mounted for the young corporation, Flagler began to better provide for his family, moving them to Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Harry and Annie's daughter Jean Louise Flagler made Palm Beach a large part of her life. [25] The "trust" was a corporation of corporations, and the entity's size and wealth drew much attention. Flager and his lawyers defeated all legal challenges and neither the company or its employees were ever convicted in court. 1. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway, much of which he built through convict leasing. [citation needed], Although Standard Oil was a partnership, Flagler was credited as the brain behind the booming oil refining business. Henry Morrison Flagler Museum: Very Disappointing - See 1,507 traveler reviews, 1,197 candid photos, and great deals for Palm Beach, FL, at Tripadvisor. Mary Harkness Flagler was the sweet, unpretentious first wife of Henry. One of the grain brokers [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." Middle child Carrie died just before Christmas in the same year that Henry's mother died (1861). Ida. Henry Morrison Flagler was born in 1830 into humble circumstances, his father a Presbyterian minister. . Perhaps Henry Flagler already planned that he would need a physician to confirm his wife suffered from insanity. Along with cheques and stocks, Flagler also gifted his wife with a new estate in Palm Beach, Florida. She endured three more frigid northern winters until in 1881, when at the age of forty-eight, Mary Harkness Flagler died. "Flagler's Magnificent Hotel Ponce de Leon," FL: The Florida Historical Quarterly, Issue 54, Volume 1. 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. There is also a kitchen, equipped with a dishwasher, oven and microwave. (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.). Thus began an era of Flagler's life that he never spoke about to the press one of scrimping and scraping. Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 - May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil. Expert Help. He is also known as a founder of the cities of Miami and Palm Beach, Florida. However, many other officials were wary of Henry Flagler. APA: VisitStAugustine.com. 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