Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Lebel, Ernest H. January 28, 1881 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.133  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        ERNEST H. LEBEL. In the moving picture industry of South Florida one of 
the most prominent men, as officer and scenario writer, is ERNEST H. LEBEL, who 
for a number of years has devoted some of his talents to literary expression 
and latterly almost entirely to the service of the motion picture business. As 
a literary man Mr. Lebel has the great advantage of experience as a practical
man of affairs, and particularly as an engineer, and in the course of his
interesting career he has gained a knowledge of lands and peoples all over the
American continent.
	Mr. Lebel was born at Union, New Jersey, January 28, 1881, and was 
liberally educated. He attended public schools in New York, the Lennox Academy, 
and at the age of fifteen was a student in the City College of New York, where 
he studied both civil and mining engineering. At the age of 19 he entered 
engineering department of the University of Arizona, and while there he studied 
law under State Senator A. A. WORSLEY of Tucson. Mr. Lebel is a linguist with
the command of the English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
	In his work as an engineer he was assistant deputy mineral surveyor in 
Arizona, was a railroad location engineer in Mexico and Guatemala, 
superintending engineer of construction of the Carnegie Lake for Princeton 
University, was hydrographic surveyor for the Harbor of Para at the mouth of 
the Amazon for the Brazilian government, and chief of division for surveying 
the Madeira-Mamore Railway, from Brazil into Bolivia, an experience that took
him through the wilds of the upper Amazon River for 2,000 miles along its
course.
	For several years before coming to Miami Mr. Lebel had his headquarters 
at Havana, Cuba, where he was sales engineer and installation engineer for J. 
P. Devine & Company of Buffalo, New York, extensive manufacturers of sugar 
making machinery. Under the strain of his arduous duties there his health broke 
down, and after a period in a New York hospital he came to Miami, in the latter 
part of 1920. He has since established his home at Hialeah, Miami suburb and 
home of the moving picture industry in South Florida. Mr. Lebel is now
practically retired from the engineering profession. During the World war he
was assigned to duty in the chemical engineering division at New Jersey and
Buffalo, New York.
	As a youth in college his literary expression largely chose technical 
subjects, and he subsequently contributed a long list of popular articles on 
engineering problems to the engineering news and trade journals. During 1908 he 
was editor of the Capital City News of Phoenix, Arizona. He has written a 
number of short stories, and his first published novel was “The Awakening,” which
appeared in 1910. He began writing sketches for vaudeville and the movies in 1912,
and for three years was continuity writer for various concerns, including the 
which appeared in 1910. He began writing sketches for vaudeville and the movies 
in 1912, and for three years was continuity writer for various concerns, 
including the Pathe. Some of his poetry appeared in the Century Magazine.
	Mr. Lebel is now a continuity writer for the Miami Studios, 
Incorporated, the company that owns the moving picture studios at Hialeah. His 
first production by this company was “The Rum Runners,” which features scenery 
in the vicinity of Miami. He is also author of the “Everglade Legends,” a six
episode serial featuring the Seminole Indian history of the Everglades.
	Mr. Lebel married ANITA CATHERINE WALLER, and they have one son, ROBERT 
BROWNING LEBEL. Since establishing his home in the Miami region, Mr. Lebel has 
actively participated in welfare movements of the suburban communities. In May, 
1922, he was honored by being elected president of the Federated Improvement 
Associations of North Dade County, “an alliance for civic progress,” comprised 
of the local improvement associations of Hialeah, Allapattah, Arch Creek, 
Everglade Avenue, Fulford, Highland Park, Lemon City, Little River, Old Forty-second
Street and 
second Street and Rockmoor. The Federated Associations have a notable program
of civic betterments, emphasizing sanitation worked in these communities.


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