Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Peacock, Beverly 1882 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.155-156  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

     	BEVERLY PEACOCK is president of the Peacock-Rice Company, Incorporated, 
lumber men and dealers in the builder’s supplies at Coconut Grove. Mr. Peacock
has been an active business man in Dade County for a number of years, and his
name serves to recall one of the prominent pioneer families in South Florida.
	His uncle, the late CHARLES PEACOCK, was a native of England and came 
to America in the ’70s. He settled in Dade County, at old Fort Dallas, now part of
of the City of Miami, and was one of the pioneers in the early development of
this section.
	J. T. PEACOCK, father of BEVERLY PEACOCK, was also a native of England,
born in Lincolnshire. He learned the mercantile business in one of the great
mercantile establishments of London, and after coming to America with his
brother he engaged in business for some years at Key West. For a time he was
also located at New River, now the town of Fort Lauderdale, where he had charge
of the United States Lighthouse service. In 1882 he removed to Coconut Grove in
Dade County, and thereafter confined his interests to shipbuilding and truck
growing.
	BEVERLY PEACOCK was born in 1882, while his father was living at Key 
West in Monroe County, and was just six months of age when his parents settled 
at Coconut Grove. After completing a common school education he took up a 
business career, and for several years was in Miami in partnership with RICHARD 
H. RICE, under the firm name of Peacock & Rice, fruit packers. From that 
business they began handling lumber and builders supplies, and in 1921 the 
Peacock-Rice Company established its plant at Coconut Grove, where in a 
remarkable short time the firm has developed a patronage for handling nearly 
all the important contracts involving building materials in this section. They 
handle everything from lumber to cement and builder’s hardware, and have
supplied the material for a large number of residences and other structures not
only in Coconut Grove but in surrounding localities such as Coral Gables. Their
lumber yard and offices are located at the corner of Douglas and Bird Roads in
Coconut Grove on the Florida East Coast Railroad.
	Mr. Peacock in addition to being an active business man has a record of
public service, having for four years been a member of the Dade County Board of
Commissioners. He married MARGARITA VALLEY, of Monroe County, of a family of
Spanish ancestry. Their 4 children are: GIFFORD LEROY, JAMES WESLEY, BEVERLY
ALTON and ANCELMO.


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