Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Maule, Evert P. 1876 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.144  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        EVERT P. MAULE. The largest industry employing the largest number of 
men in Dade County is the Maule Ojus Rock Company at Ojus in the northeast
section of Dade County. It was founded and developed by EVERT P. MAULE, who has
been a quarryman and contractor for many years, formally of St. Louis,
Missouri, but since 1910 a resident of Miami.
     	Mr. Maule was born in Philadelphia in 1876, but as a boy accompanied 
his parents to St. Louis, where he was reared and educated. As a young man he 
engaged in the rock-quarrying and contracting business. He developed an 
expansive industry with rock quarries at Girardeau, Missouri, and as a 
contractor he built some of the largest buildings in St. Louis. His home was in 
that city for nearly thirty years, and for several years he was secretary of 
the Masons Builders’ Association of Missouri.
     	While Mr. Maule was one of the successful business men he sought 
Florida not as a home for his retired years but as a scene for continued 
activity. He came to Miami in 1910, and soon afterward established the Maule 
Rock Quarries. This and its auxiliary organizations employ nearly a thousand 
men, most of them at Ojus. The rock quarries cover several hundred acres and 
produce the finest hard rock for road and other construction in the state. The 
quarries have a daily capacity of a hundred car loads, and Mr. Maule for 
several years has had an annual contract with the Florida East Coast Railway to 
supply all the ballast from Jacksonville to Key West. The daily output of 
ballast for this purpose is twenty car loads. Rock from these quarries provided 
the concrete for the Biscayne Bay causeway, the Flagler Street and Miami Avenue 
bridges, and the Ojus rock has been used on practically all the traveled hig
highways of the East Coast, including the Dixie Highway from Fort Lauderdale to
Jacksonville, and the same material was used on the Palm Beach County roads and
practically all the good roads in Florida north of Fort Lauderdale. Around the
rock quarries has grown up a considerable town, including railroad station,
post office, hotel and store, church and school.
    	 Mr. Maule not only supplies the hard rock used in railroading and road
building, but is himself one of the foremost contractors for modern good road
building in the South. He is head of the organization that built many of the
hard surface roads north of Fort Lauderdale, including the Dixie Highway. He
has a large amount of capital invested in roadbuilding machinery and equipment.
     	Mr. Maule married KATHRYN COGSWELL, of St. Louis. They have a beautiful
home on the Bay in Miramar at Miami, and their interesting family of four
daughters are, KATHERINE, RUTH, ELEANOR and JUNE.


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