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Source: Vol. II  pg.152  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        WILLIAM D. HORNE, president of the Bank of Homestead, at Homestead,
Dade County, where he is also the owner of the substantial and important retail
hardware business conducted under the title of the W. D. Horne Company, has
prestige as one of the vigorous and resourceful figures in pioneer development
enterprise and civic progress in this favored section of Florida, where his
interests are now large and varied. His initiative energy and mature judgment
have come prominently into play in the general development and advancement of
the interests of Dade County, and the success which he has achieved represents
the concrete results of his own efforts, the reflex of which has been to the
benefit of the entire community.
	The splendid work accomplished by Mr. Horne is the more interesting to 
contemplate by virtue of the fact that he is a native son of Florida, his birth 
having occurred in Madison County, this state, in 1875. From his boyhood until 
he attained to his legal majority he was associated with the varied activities 
of his father’s farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the 
schools of the locality and period. Upon coming to the southern part of the 
state he resided for years at Miami, judicial center of Dade County, and then, 
in 1904, he became a pioneer at Homestead, which was then represented only by 
the railroad station, with the station agent and a small force of railroad 
section hands as virtually the only inhabitants of what is now a vital and 
progressive little city of about 1,500 population. The Florida East Coast 
Railway had just been completed to this point, which at that time represented 
its terminus. Mr. Horne here opened a small store, the first mercantile 
establishment in the embryonic village, his view being that here might be 
developed a prosperous business by securing the trade that would naturally 
attend the extension of the railroad to Key West. Since that early period in 
the history of Homestead Mr. Horne has applied himself with unremitting 
diligence and ability to the management of his varied and constantly expanding 
business and industrial interests, and he stands well to the front as one of 
the founders and builders of Homestead, while substantial financial success has 
attended his activities. His little store developed into the important hardware 
concern now conducted under the title of the W. D. Horne Company, he being the 
sole owner of this business, which is one of the largest of its kind in 
Southern Florida. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Homestead, which 
was incorporated, in 1912, with a capital stock of $15,000, since increased to 
$25,000, and which has exercised important influence in the general development 
of this community along both civic and material lines. The bank owns and 
occupies its own building, a modern concrete structure with two storerooms and 
the banking offices on the first floor and with the second floor equipped for 
office purposes. One of the stores in the building is occupied by the hardware 
establishment of Mr. Horne, and this is the finest business building at 
Homestead. Mr. Horne has been president of the Bank of Homestead from the time 
of its organization, he owns and has improved a fine farm and orange-grove pr
property in the vicinity of Homestead, and is the owner also of a fine farm on
Lake Okeechobee where he produces winter vegetables, he finding much
satisfaction in giving to this farm his personal supervision. He is one of the
strong and resourceful men who are making Southern Florida come into its own,
and much honor is due him for the effective work which he has here achieved.
	Mr. Horn wedded Miss IDA V. CAMPBELL, of Madison County, and they have
4 children: LORETTA, RUSSELL, DEXTER and ELIZABETH.


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