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Source: Vol. II  pg.139  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        FRANK B. STONEMAN.  As one of the fastest growing cities in the South,
Miami has a number of very successful institutions, and perhaps none has
contributed more to the progress in life of the city than the Miami Herald. The
Herald may be said to have a consecutive history of twenty years. It is the
successor of the Miami Evening Record, established in 1903, at first as an
afternoon paper and the first daily in the city. Its publishers were LaSalle &
Stoneman, and FRANK B. STONEMAN has been the moving spirit in this newspaper
from the beginning.
	In 1907 it was changed to a morning paper, and through a consolidation 
became the News-Record. In 1910 a complete reorganization occurred, new capital 
being secured through the instrumentality of FRANK B. SHUTTS, then of Aurora, 
Indiana, who became a permanent resident of Miami in 1910. Mr. Shutts was
elected president of the new company, with FRANK B. STONEMAN as vice president
and editor. Since then the name has been The Herald.
	There was very little capital behind the firm which started the Record 
in 1903, and the paper had to contend with money adversities for several years. 
Since the reorganization the Herald has maintained and unimpaired prestige as 
one of the largest and most influential journals in the Southeast, and has 
grown in size, circulation, advertising patronage and general usefulness in 
proportion to the City of Miami itself. It is now a metropolitan newspaper, 
printing each day from sixteen to twenty-four pages and always over forty pages
on Sunday. It carries the full Associated Press news and the services of other
news associations.
	FRANK B. STONEMAN, vice president and editor, was born in Indianapolis,
Indiana, to which city his father had moved after the Civil war. Later the
family went to Minneapolis, where FRANK B. STONEMAN was educated in the
University of Minnesota. He also attended Carleton College at Northfield. His
father was a cousin of a famous Civil war leader, General Stoneman.
	FRANK B. STONEMAN learned the printer’s trade in the early days of
Minnesota. He also taught school, worked in grocery stores, and studied law
while in that state. His leading inclination, however, was for newspaper work,
and he did newspaper reporting while in Minnesota.
	Mr. Stoneman came to Florida in 1897. He located at Orlando, where he 
was admitted to the bar and practiced law for three years. He then founded the 
Daily Record and published that paper at Orlando until removing to Miami in 
1903, and in association with Mr. LaSalle, founded the Miami Evening Record. 
Mr. Stoneman has not only been instrumental in giving Miami a great modern
newspaper, but has been a leader in other community affairs. By appointment he
held the office of municipal judge of Miami for eight months. He is a past
president of the Miami Rotary Club, is a director of the Miami Chamber of
Commerce, and was a presidential Elector from Florida in 1904. In Masonry he
served ten years as master of lodges, is a past high priest of the Royal Arch,
past eminent commander of the Knights Templars, and is also a past grand high
priest and past grand commander of the State of Florida.


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