Dade County FlArchives Biographies.....Roman, Charles 1892 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.132  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        CHARLES ROMAN. In CHARLES ROMAN the City of Miami has a source of 
enterprise which will make this one of the leading industrial centers of the 
state. Mr. Roman is an artist and a master of all the technique involved in 
fine furniture making and designing. He learned his trade in the Old World, and 
has been a resident of the State of Florida since 1914.
	He was born in 1892 at Grosswardein, Hungary, where he received his 
literary and technical education. Grosswardein has an excellent trade school,
and in that at the age of twelve he began his apprenticeship in woodworking and
cabinetmaking. He completed his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and then
followed employment as a journeyman worker in various countries of Europe. On
coming to America in 1913 he landed in New York, and his first employment was
in the plant of the Steinway Piano Company on Long Island.
	In 1914 Mr. Roman came to Jacksonville, Florida, and joined the
furniture and interior decorating establishment of the Theodore Hirsch Company.
He became manager of the interior decorating department. During the World war,
on account of the difficulty of getting his order for furniture filled, Mr.
Hirsch established a small furniture making plant in Highland Park and placed
Mr. Roman at its head as manager. Mr. Roman invested some of his own capital in
the business, and recently he became sole owner, and is now known as the Roman
Furniture Manufacturing Company. At first the exclusive line of manufacture was
bedroom suits but Mr. Roman now has facilities and trained workman for
manufacturing furniture for all rooms.	
	As an artist in this line he designed furniture, and has executed a 
number of contracts since coming to Miami for the design and manufacture of 
furniture to harmonize with the style of household surroundings. Examples of 
this work are found in a number of the beautiful and expensive residences owned 
by the wealthy winter residents of South Florida. In addition to custom-made
furniture Mr. Roman has his factory equipped on a permanent basis for the
manufacture of medium grade furniture.
	He is interested in all civic movements in Miami. He married Miss C
CAROLINE MAJOR at Jacksonville, Florida. They have one son, CHARLES ROMAN, Jr.
Their home adjoins the factory in Highlands Park, and they have given much time
and pains to the development of their grounds, which are adorned with beautiful
specimens of subtropical plants and flowers.


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