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Title
Chase Collection
Description
Select images, correspondence, and other records from the Chase Collection (MS 14) at Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. According to the biographical sketch in the collection's finding aid:
"The story of the Chases in Florida began in 1878 when Sydney Octavius Chase (1860-1941), having read about orange groves in Scribner's Magazine, came to Florida from Philadelphia. His brother, Joshua Coffin Chase (1858-1948), joined him in 1884 and together they formed Chase and Company that year. The Chase brothers came to Florida at the right time for Florida citrus and at the right time for them as investment entrepreneurs. Strong family ties in the North provided them with financial backing for their ventures. Joshua left Florida in 1895 to work in the California citrus industry. He returned to Florida in 1904 and rejoined his brother. Another brother, Randall, remained in Philadelphia and augmented his brothers' finances when convenient. Sydney and Joshua were also important civic leaders who took part in community development, most notably in the City of Sanford. Both were elected to the Sanford city commission. They also supported the development of Rollins College, worked with the Florida Historical Society, and were the benefactors of numerous charities.
Chase and Company began as an insurance company and branched out to storage facilities and fertilizer sales. The latter was the beginning of the company's lucrative agricultural supply division which remained in operation throughout the existence of the company. Although citrus was the primary interest, the company also invested in other agricultural pursuits including celery in central Florida, tung oil production in Jefferson County, and winter vegetables and sugar cane in the Lake Okeechobee muck lands. The company was also involved in the peach business in Georgia and North Carolina. The company was incorporated in 1914, with the Chase brothers owning 75 percent of the stock, and reincorporated in 1948. A second generation of Chases began its involvement in the family operations when Sydney O. Chase, Jr. ( b. 1890) became a citrus buyer in 1922. He was later joined by his brother Randall who served as president of Chase and Company from 1948-1965. Outside the Chase Family, Alfred Foster, W. R. Harney, and William "Billy" Leffler figured prominently as company executives and investors. The company dissolved in 1979 when its principal assets were sold to Sunniland for $5.5 million.
The Chases' interest in citrus began when Sydney came to Florida and became associated with General Henry S. Sanford. The Chases would eventually own General Sanford's experimental farm, Belair, and the Chase family home in Sanford was located there. Over the years, the Chases invested in a number of citrus groves and owned others outright. In 1912, they organized the Chase Investment Company as a holding company for their farms. Initially, the company operated the Isleworth, Nocatee, Belair, and Kelly citrus groves as well as celery farms in Sanford. The company was renamed Chase Groves, Inc. in 1951. From time to time, Chase Investment was involved in real estate in Florida and North Carolina. The latter included Fort Caswell, a former military property that was held for a time and then sold. Unquestionably, the jewel in the Chase crown was the Isleworth grove at Windermere. Isleworth's four hundred lake-tempered acres carried the Chases through many difficult times. It proved to be the principal asset at the company's demise when it was sold to golf legend Arnold Palmer in 1984. Chase Groves dissolved that same year, 100 years after the founding of Chase and Company."
Contributor
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
Alternative Title
Chase Collection
Subject
Chase and Company (Sanford, Fla.)
Chase, Sydney Octavius, 1860-1941
Chase, Joshua Coffin, 1858-1948
Citrus fruit industry--Florida
Golf--Florida
Celery industry
Sanford (Fla.)
Windermere (Fla.)
Jacksonville (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Isleworth Grove, Windermere, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a><span>, University of Florida</span>
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600" target="_blank">Sydney Chase Sr. (1860-1941)</a>." <em>Florida Citrus Hall of Fame</em>. Copyright 2012. http://floridacitrushalloffame.com/index.php/inductees/inductee-name/?ref_cID=89&bID=0&dd_asId=600.
Warner, S.C. "<a href="http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1923%20Vol.%2036/198-200%20%28WARNER%29.pdf" target="_blank">Development of Marketing Citrus Fruits in Florida</a>." <em>Florida State Horticultural Society</em> vol. 36 (1923): 198-200.
Hopkins, James T. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1219230" target="_blank"><em>Fifty Years of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Exchange: 1909-1959</em></a>. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press: 1960.
"<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus" target="_blank">Franklin Chase, 'Towering Figure in Citrus Industry</a>.'" <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>, September 30, 1986. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1986-09-30/news/0260060057_1_chase-isleworth-golf-florida-citrus.
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/90" target="_blank">Celery Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/93" target="_blank">Citrus Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/91" target="_blank">Belair Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/100" target="_blank">Florida Citrus Exchange Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/88" target="_blank">Isleworth Grove Collection</a>, Citrus Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/86" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/94" target="_blank">Holy Cross Episcopal Church Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/87" target="_blank">Sanford Country Club and Golf Course Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
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Title
"The Entrance of the Faith in the Eastern Part of the Peninsula and Some Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery" Manuscript
Alternative Title
"Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery"
Subject
Presbyterians--United States
Churches--Florida
Florida Presbytery (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Presbyterian Church
Description
An original manuscript titled "The Entrance of the Faith in the Eastern Part of the Peninsula and Some Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery," written by J. N. Whitner. The first Presbyterians in Florida migrated from the Carolinas and from Scotland beginning in 1820. The St. Johns Presbytery comprised of territory including and surrounding Fort Mellon, Fort Read, and Fort Brooke. In the early 1850s, Francis Lee Galloway, a leading elder of the Presbyterian Church, settled in the Fort Read community after migrating to Florida from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.<br /><br />Around 1855, Judge James G. Spear planted orange groves and built his home around Lake Apopka. Called Oakland, Speer's home served as a location for Christians to assemble daily for prayer and for Sunday services conducted by the judge himself. The first group of Presbyterians to arrive in Fort Read after the Seminole War were Dr. Andrew C. Caldwell and his family, who migrated to Florida from Greensboro, North Carolina, in May 1867.<br /><br />In 1869, Reverend John W. Montgomery, the Evangelist of Florida Presbytery, organized the Sumter Church in Sumter County. The name of the church was later changed to the Leesburg Presbyterian Church and a building was constructed in 1884. Plans to organize and build a church at Fort Read began in 1869, with Reverend F. F. Montgomery conducting services. Silver Lake Church was officially organized in February 1870 and the church building was completed the following year. St. Johns Presbytery was organized at Silver Lake Church on March 9, 1878. In 1900, after much of the population shifted toward the growing Town of Sanford, the church dissolved.
Type
Text
Source
Original manuscript by J .N. Whitner: "The Entrance of the Faith in the Eastern Part of the Peninsula and Some Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery," February 1870: box 173, folder 9.52, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> (MS 14), box 173, folder 9.52, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
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Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/87" target="_blank">Sanford Country Club and Golf Course Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Chase Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/23" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Referenced By
Folder referenced in Chase Collection finding guide, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm</a>.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original manuscript by J .N. Whitner: "The Entrance of the Faith in the Eastern Part of the Peninsula and Some Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery," February 1870.
Coverage
Euchee Valley, DeFuniak Spring, Florida
Fort Mellon, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Mellonville, Florida
Leesburg, Florida
Micanopy, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida
Quincy, Florida
Fort Read, Florida
Madison, Florida
Americus, Georgia
Oakland, Florida
Enterprise, Florida
Apopka, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Beresfod, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Creator
Whitner, J. N.
Date Created
1870-02
Format
application/pdf
Extent
1.77 MB
Medium
9-page typewritten manuscript
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Entire <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/chase.htm" target="_blank">Chase Collection</a> is comprised of four separate accessions from various donors, including Cecilia Johnson, the granddaughter of Joshua Coffin Chase and the children of Randall Chase.
Rights Holder
The displayed collection item is housed at <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a> at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Rights to this item belong to the said institution, and therefore inquiries about the item should be directed there. <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> has obtained permission from Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida to display this item for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>, University of Florida
<a href="http://ufdc.ufl.edu/" target="_blank">Digital Collections (UFDC)</a>, University of Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
University of Florida, <a href="http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/" target="_blank">Special and Area Studies Collections</a>
External Reference
Bullock, James R., and Jerrold Lee Brooks. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17274973" target="_blank"><em>Heritage and Hope: A Story of Presbyterians in Florida</em></a>. Orlando, Fla: Presbyterian Church (USA), Synod of Florida, 1987.
Kirk, Cooper Clifford. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1846550" target="_blank"><em>A History of the Southern Presbyterian Church in Florida, 1821-1891</em></a>. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 1966.
Pierce, Albert W. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25982814" target="_blank"><em>The Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. in Florida</em></a>. S.l: Synod of Florida, 1948.
Transcript
THE ENTRANCE OF THE FAITH
IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE PENINSULA
AND SOME EARLY PRESBYTERIAN PLANTINGS IN THE REGION OF SAINT JOHNS PRESBYTERY
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AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY OF THE REV. WILLIAM B. TELFORD BY MRS. J. N. WHITNER
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Americus, Georgia
Apopka
Army
Baker, Archibald
baptism
Beresford
Boone, Cornelia Frances
Boone, Janette Bruce
Boone, Mattie
Bruce, Agnus Donald
Bruce, Cornelia Frances Marks
Caldwell, Andrew C.
Caldwell, Andrew Curran
Caldwell, Julie Doak
Caldwell, Robert Ernest
Caldwell, Sallie Davidson
Christiania, Norway
church
church elder
circuit rider
Columbia County
Convention of the General Assembly
Darlington
deacon
DeLand
Dubose, John C.
education
elder
enterprise
Episcopal Church
Episcopalian
Episcopalianism
Euchee Valley
evangelism
evangelist
Evangelist of Florida Presbytery
Everglades
Fort Dallas
Fort Maitland
Fort Mellon
Fort Read
Galloway, Francis Lee
Galloway, Nancy
Gamble, William G.
Gould
Gould, Benjamin
Gound, Benjamin
Graften, C. W.
Green
Greensboro, North Carolina
Harrington
Holland
Holland, Ella
Holland, Herbert
Holland, Sarah Cochrane
Holland, Ursula
Lake Apopka
Leesburg
Little, James
Luraville
Madison
Maitland
Mar's Bluff, South Carolina
Markes, Maggie
Marks
Marks, Adeline Tomlinson
Marks, Jacinta
Marks, Maggie
Marks, Matthew R.
marriage
Mason
Mason, Zolotus
McCorkle, S. V.
McCormack, J. W.
McIlvaine, William E.
McLean, Josephine
McLean, Madison
McLean, Maggie
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Mellonville
Methodism
Methodist
Methodist church
Miami
Micanopy
mission
Montgomery, F F.
Montgomery, John W.
Native American
Nichols, Maria Stone
North Carolina
North Florida
Oakland
orange county
Orange House
orlando
Pensacola
pioneer
Presbyterian
Presbyterian church
Presbyterianism
Read, Ford
Rees, Margaret Bruce
religious education
reverend
Rossetter
Rossetter, Appleton T.
Saint Johns Presbytery
Sanford
school
Scotland
Seminole
Seminole War
settlement
Silver Lake Church
South Carolina
Speer
Speer, James G.
St. Johns River
Stagg, John W.
Stockton
Stockton, North Carolina
Sumter County
Sunday school
Suwannee County
Tallahassee
Telford
Telford, R. L.
Telford, William B.
The Early Planting of Presbyterianism in West Florida
The Entrance of the Faith in the Eastern Part of the Peninsula and Some Early Presbyterian Plantings in the Region of Saint Johns Presbytery
Tufts, Edgar
Turner, George D.
U.S. Army
Volusia County
Walton County
Watson
wedding
Weinrich, Charles
West Florida
Whipple
Whitner, Amelia Melvina Howard
Whitner, B. F.
Whitner, B.F.
Whitner, J. N.
Whitner, Joseph Newton
Whitner, Mary Golphin
Whitner, Sarah Jane Church
Willy, John
Woodruff, Nancy Galloway
Woodruff, W. W.
Wylly, George W.
Young People's Musical Group