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Source: Vol. II  pg.169  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

	ROBERT FALLIGANT. A number of young ex-servicemen from the Great war
have established themselves at Miami and wield an almost commanding influence
in the business and professional affairs of that city. One of these is ROBERT
FALLIGANT, who has a record of more than three years in the American Army
during the Mexican border troubles in the World war, and is now engaged in the
real estate business, with offices in the Central Arcade.
	He was born at Savannah, Georgia, in 1890 and represents one of the
historic families of Savannah. The Falligants were originally French, but
established themselves in America in Colonial times and are the families who
were represented in the Revolutionary war. The parents of the Miami real estate
man were Dr. LOUIS A. and ROSA (BROWN) FALLIGANT. His mother is still living.
Dr. LOUIS A. FALLIGANT was born in 1836, and died in Savannah in 1902. He was a
surgeon of the Confederate Army and studied medicine in Brown University at
Providence, Rhode Island. He was an expert in handling yellow fever, at one
time was city health officer of Savannah and was a member of the sanitary board
of the city during the yellow fever epidemic of 1876 and subsequently served as
an expert to the Congressional Yellow Fever Commission during the epidemic at
New Orleans in 1878. He was one of the active members of the American Public
Health Association. His brother Judge ROBERT FALLIGANT was a Confederate
officer and a distinguished lawyer of Savannah.
	ROBERT FALLIGANT of Miami was accorded all the liberal educational
advantages in keeping with the social traditions of his family. He was educated
in the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Washington and Lee University of
Virginia and in the University of Georgia. After finishing his University
career he became a teller in the American National Bank of Macon, Georgia.
	He left that position in the fall of 1916 to go to El Paso on the 
Mexican border as a member of the National Guard of Georgia. Soon after America 
entered the war with Germany in 1917 he joined the National Army at Camp Harris 
at Macon, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, in France and was among the first 
American troops to go overseas. He went over with the One Hundred Fifty-first 
Machine Gun Battalion in the famous Rainbow or Forty-second Division in 
October, 1917. On reaching France he was detailed for intensive study in the 
French Infantry School at Langres. Besides his experience with the French Army 
he saw service with the Royal Lancashire Regiment of British troops at Arras. 
He was then assigned to the Three Hundred and Twelfth Infantry of the Seventy-eighth
Division, and during the great offensives in the summer of 1918 was on constant duty
in the front line trenches, including St. Mihiel and the Argonne. In the Argonne an
act of conspicuous bravery brought him promotion to the rank of First Lieutenant. At
one post of duty in the Argonne he lost twenty
eighth Division, and during the great offensives in the summer of 1918 was on 
constant duty in the front line trenches, including St. Mihiel and the Argonne. 
In the Argonne an act of conspicuous bravery brought him promotion to the rank 
of First Lieutenant. At one post of duty in the Argonne he lost twenty-one out 
of the forty men under his command October 16, 1918, also in the Argonne 
campaign and while his regiment, the Three Hundred and Twelfth was located at 
Grandpre, he was selected by his superior officer to take a platoon of men and 
establish a liaison with the French troops whose exact location was then 
unknown. Lieutenant Falligant successfully carried out this order under great 
hazard. After the armistice he was assigned to Military Police duty covering 
the three departments of Saone-et-Loire, Aisne and Jura. Mr. Falligant returned
to America in the late summer of 1919, and was discharged at Camp Gordon,
Georgia, September 9, 1919, completing an Army service record of three years,
three months.
	Mr. Falligant came to Miami in the latter part of 1919, held a
temporary position as teller in the First National Bank, but resigned to
establish himself in the general real estate business.
	Mr. Falligant married GRACE SUFFORTO-CLOSE of Boston. She was born at
St. Augustine, Florida, and her father was a prominent Spanish diplomat who
spent several years in the service of his country in America.


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