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Source: Vol. II  pg.163  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present      

	LEROY MORGAN. Southeast Florida is naturally a country to attract men 
of capital, but the combination of capital with realizable ideals and plans for
development is not so frequently encountered. That is the distinction of Mr.
LEROY MORGAN among the property owners and developers of this section. Mr.
Morgan has done some very noteworthy work at Buena Vista and in other points
north of Miami.
	He came to Miami early in 1920. His judgment was at once attracted to
the possibilities of Buena Vista, the suburb lying immediately north of Miami
on the Dixie Highway, and subsequent investigations made him almost equally
enthusiastic regarding the entire region along the highway as far north as Palm
Beach. He began his operations by buying plots of land at Buena Vista and
Rockmoor, immediately adjacent to Buena Vista on the north, and during the past
two years has erected eighteen houses in Rockmoor and has done much to develop
that into one of the most beautiful residence districts. His interests in
business property are centered at Buena Vista, where he erected and owns the
Biltmore Theater, a fine moving picture house; also the adjoining business
house for the Tanner grocery store. He built, owns and manages the Wisteria
Bungalow, a club house and social center of the highest class, very popular for
dancing and other social functions. Mr. Morgan has plans underway for the
construction of business property in that section of Buena Vista known as
Commercial Biltmore. He has property interests along the Dixie Highway as far
north as Arch Creek. A thoroughly practical business man, he has become highly
enthusiastic for the future of this section of Southeast Florida, and is one of
the men of brains and enterprise who are combining to make Miami one of the
great centers of commerce and general development.
	Mr. Morgan was born in Boston, Massachusetts, was educated in Exeter
Academy of New Hampshire, and represents a solid type of New England business
man. For several years he was a builder and promoter of property interests at
Milton, Massachusetts, where he carried out some successful enterprises in the
way of buildings that would add to the architectural beauty of the town. While
his efforts may not have been sufficiently appreciated at the time, they have
been appreciated since, and after he came to Florida it was a matter of remark
in Milton that the town had lost an unusually good and useful citizen and his
leaving was greatly to be regretted. From Milton he went West, spent some time
in Cleveland, Ohio, and had been in Cuba before coming to Miami. Mr. Morgan
married OLIVE COOPS of Taunton, Massachusetts. Their 2 children are ARNOLD and
WARREN.


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