Henry Morrison Flagler Outline

Henry Morrison Flagler Outline

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1828 Sept 15 Isaac and Elizabeth married

1830 January 2 Birth of Henry Morrison Flagler to Isaac Flagler (died July 1876) and Elizabeth Caldwell Morrison Harkness (died 1861)

Dropped out of 8th grade

Deck hand on Erie Canal Boats

1844 arrived at Republic Ohio to live with half-brother and worked at L. G. Harkness and Company.

1849 moved to Bellevue for a job at Chapman, Harkness and Company

1852 became a partner in Harkness and Company ? company was also a distillery

1853 November 9 Married Mary Harkness

Florida Memory - Key West -
Henry Morrison Flagler

1855 March 18 Jenny Louise Flagler born (died March 25, 1889)

1858 June 18 Carrie Flagler born.

1861 Elizabeth Harkness Flagler (mother) dies

1861 December 7 Carrie dies (Carrie-3 year old)[1]

1865 Went bust with Salt production moved to Cleveland

1867 Partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler

1870 January 11 Standard Oil Company incorporated as a joint stock company

1870 December 2 Birth of Harry Harkness Flagler

Florida Memory

1876 July Isaac Flagler (father) dies

1878 Trip to Jacksonville Florida

Marriage of Jenny Louise to John Arthur Hinckley

1881 May 18 Mary Harkness Flagler died

1882 January 2 Standard Oil Trust Formed

1883 June 5 Married to Ida Alice Shourds (born July 4, 1848, died July 10, 1930)

1883 December honeymoon to Florida through March 1, 1884 stayed in part at unknown St. Augustine location

1885 February 17 Returned to St. Augustine stayed at San Marco Hotel witnessed the celebration of the landing of Ponce de Leon in March 1885

1885 December 1 groundbreaking on the Ponce de Leon Hotel

1885 December 31 purchased railroad between Jacksonville and St. Augustine

1887 May or June[2] Alcazar Hotel

Florida Memory Project

1887 May Henry Flagler sells land to Franklin Smith to build the Casa Monica [3]

1887 May 30 Ponce de Leon finished

1887 October 6 Jenny Louise married Frederick Hart Benedict

1888 January 10 Ponce de Leon opened

1888 April 20 Henry Flagler buys the Casa Monica Hotel with all furnishings, renamed the Cordova.[4]

1888 May 22 Henry Flagler assembles women at Ponce de Leon to discuss plans to build a hospital.

1888 December 25 Alcazar Hotel opens[5]

1889 February 9 Jennie Louise gives birth to a baby girl

1889 March 25 Jennie Louise Benedict dies.

1890 January 20 completed bridge across the St. Johns River at Jacksonville (see some companies owned by Henry Flagler)

1890 March 1 Alicia Hospital opened.

1890 March 16 Memorial Presbyterian Church dedicated

1892 Charter from the State of Florida to allow building of railroad to Miami

1892 Feb 3 Grand Ball Hermitage Ball commemorative of Andrew Jackson

1892 May 28 incorporated the Florida Coast and Gulf Railway Company.

1892 March 1 moved into Kirkside

1892 August Town of West Palm Beach laid out

1892 first trip by Mary Lilly to St. Augustine

1893 The Jacksonville, St. Augustine & Indian River Ry. ? trademark of pineapple

1894 February 11 Royal Poinciana opened in West Palm Beach

Florida Memory Project

1894 March 22 railroad reaches Lake Worth

1894 March 31 Henry Flagler gives control of the Ponce de Leon, Alcazar and Cordova hotels to Harry

1894 April 2 railroad completed to West Palm Beach

1894 April 25 Harry Harkness Flagler marries Miss Anna Louis Lamont in New York

1895 September 13 railroad name changed to Florida East Coast Railway

1895 October 24 Alice placed in the House of Dr. Choate

Date uncertain - Henry has major argument with Harry. Never talks to Harry again.

1896 April 16 railroad completed to Miami

1897 January 16 Royal Palm opens in Miami

1897 March 23 final commitment of Ida Alice

1901 April 9 bill introduced to allow divorce on grounds of insanity in Florida

1901 April 25 bill signed into law

1901 August 13 divorce of Henry Flagler to Ida Alice Flagler granted in Florida - Judge Minor S. Jones ; Ex Gov Fleming Mrs. Flagler's guardian

1901 August 21 Henry Flagler engaged to Mary Lily Kenan (born June 14, 1867). He was 71 she was 34.

1901 August 24 married Mary Lily Kenan - bride received 1 million, members of family 50,000 each bride 32 years old; married by Rev. Dr. Peyton H. Hoge, party consisted of Flagler, Attorney Mr. Ashley, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Pick, Capt and Mrs. E. W. Lucas, Miss Hannah bowles

1901 Sept. 15 Mary Harkness Flagler born (Harry's)

1902 Whitehall finished

1903 March 11 Elizabeth Lamont Flagler born (Harry's)

1905 April 19 Fl Senate passes bill repealing "Flagler" divorce law - Gov Broward made the repeal one of the issues of his campaign

1912 January 22 first official train arrives in Key West Florida

1913 January 15 Henry Flagler falls down stairs at Whitehall

1913 May 20 Henry Flagler dies

1913 May 23 body lies in state at Ponce de Leon before removal to Memorial Presbyterian

1916 November 16 Mary Lily married Robert Worth Bingham

1917 July 27 Mary Lily dies

1925 March 18 Breakers Hotel burns for the 2nd time (also Hotel Palm Beach caught fire from the Breakers). Whitehall sold, becomes a hotel

1928 March 30 Harry Harkness Flagler becomes Chairperson of the The Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.,

1930 July 10 Ida Alice dies

1932 Alcazar Hotel Closes/ Cordova closes

1952 death of Harry Flagler

1959 - Whitehall Hotel went out of business. Purchased by Mrs. Flagler Matthews.

1960 - February Henry Morrison Flagler Museum opened at Whitehall.

1967 March Hotel Ponce de Leon closed.

1999 December 10 Casa Monica reopens

[1] Edward N. Akin. Flagler Rockefeller Partner and Florida Baron. University of Florida Press, 1991, p. 12.

[2] Thomas Graham. Flagler?s Grand Hotel Alcazar. St. Augustine: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1989. p. 11.

[3] History of the Casa Monica/Cordova Hotel, http://www.casamonica.com/, downloaded October 9, 2002.

[4]Ibid.

[5]Op. Cit. Graham, p. 12

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