Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Hiers, Jacob B. 1874 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.164-165  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present      

	JACOB B. HIERS is a native of Florida, for many years was a commercial
salesman in this territory, in the meantime establishing his home at Miami, and
with an extensive knowledge of the state and local conditions he finally
entered the real estate business at Miami, and has been a specialist in the
sale of Everglades land.
	Mr. Hiers was born in Bradford County, Florida, in 1874, son of JACOB 
and ELIZA B. (LASTINGER) HIERS. His mother is still living. His father, who was 
born at Brownsville, South Carolina, in 1818, came to Florida several years 
before the Civil war. He entered the Confederate Army and served through that 
struggle, and subsequently became an extensive planter of sea-island cotton in
Bradford County. There he owned a large and valuable plantation.
	JACOB B. HIERS lived the first nineteen years of his life on the old
Bradford County place. He was educated in local schools, and when he left home
he took up commercial lines, and for a number of years visited all the
important towns of the state, representing a wholesale grocery house, and for
seven years he was traveling representative in Florida for Swift & Company,
with Jacksonville as his headquarters.
	Mr. Hiers removed his home to Miami in 1911, but continued his work on
the road until about 1920. He then opened his real estate office in the real
estate building, and has developed an important service in the buying and
selling of the muck land of the Everglades. He has long been interested in the
possibilities of this vast and rich tract, and has made a thorough study of the
best means of cultivating and handling the most profitable production in that
vicinity. He has done a very extensive business. Probably as a personal hobby
and also as some practical demonstration work that may be taken as a model to
follow by the buyers of the small tract farms in the Everglades, Mr. Hiers has
gone into the poultry business on a commercial scale. He has developed a fine
flock of white leghorns, and has one of the most interesting model poultry
plants in the vicinity of Miami. His property comprises a portion of what was
formally known as the Riverside Farms in the northwest part of Miami. Here he
has remodeled the residence and has done much to improve and beautify the place
and the grounds.
	Mr. Hiers married Miss ELIZABETH CLAUDE WATERMAN, daughter of the late 
AIDEN WATERMAN of Ocala, one of the very prominent citizens of Marion County 
and also a man of state-wide prominence. For several years her father was a
leader in business and industry and among other enterprises he established the
first electric light plant in Ocala. Mrs. Hiers is a niece of the late General
ROBERT BULLOCK, last surviving member of the Congress of the Confederate States
and also a gallant officer in the Confederate Army. Mr. and Mrs. Hiers have
three interesting sons, JACOB B., Jr., WILLIAM A., and CLAUDE W.


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