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Source: Vol. II  pg.161-162  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        L. C. OLIVER was the first lumber dealer at Miami, and is a pioneer of 
that city was identified prominently with many of the first and subsequent 
enterprises of the community. He has been a business man of Florida for a 
period of over thirty-five years, and is still active at Miami, where he owns
and operates a model ice manufacturing plant.
	Though born near Little Rock, Arkansas, he was only a child when his
parents removed to Georgia and established their home at Reidsville, where he was
was reared and educated. Coming to Florida in 1887, Mr. Oliver first located at
Titusville, where he engaged in the lumber business.
	It was early in 1896, before regular train service was established over
the Florida East Coast Railway, that he arrived in Miami. When trains began
running to the city in the summer of that year he received a consignment of
several car loads of lumber on the first freight train, and as a lumber dealer
supplied the materials for the first structures in the new town. He himself
built the first residence here, using it for his own home. This house was
located on the block where the Urmey Hotel now stands, in the heart of the
business district. Another example of his progressive spirit was that he
brought the first automobile to Miami. He also built the first ice plant in the
city, and in other ways influenced the early development of the locality.
	After selling his lumber business and ice plant at Miami Mr. Oliver
removed to Jacksonville. His home was in that city for fourteen years. While
there he conducted the Ford car general agency for Jacksonville in nineteen
counties. During the last two years he was in this business at Jacksonville he
sold nearly 1,700 Ford automobiles.
	From Jacksonville in 1916 Mr. Oliver took his family to live on an
orange grove on the Indian River near Titusville, but in 1921 returned to
Miami, and he now regards his interests as permanently centered here. At Miami
since his return he has built and is operating the plant of the Oliver Ice
Company. This plant has a manufacturing capacity of 225 tons a day, and has an
equipment of thoroughly modern manufacturing machinery and facilities for the
expeditious handling and distribution. He does both a local and shipping
business, supplies the ice for the refrigerator cars of the Florida East Coast
Railway and also for yachts and ships of various character making the port of
Miami
	Mr. Oliver first married Miss MARY GRAY, now deceased. His oldest
child, Mrs. JULIA BERTHA ARNOLD, is the daughter of MARY GRAY OLIVER. By his
second marriage, at Jacksonville, Mr. Oliver had 3 children: CLARA FORD OLIVER,
LOUISE REILLY OLIVER and SIDNEY OLIVER


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