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Source: Vol. II  pg.53  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        FRED W. VANDERPOOL. The name Vanderpool is a significant and honored
one in Southern Florida. It was borne by one of the pioneers of Orange County
of which the City of Orlando is the county seat, who had the courage and
persistence to bear and do in spite of adversity and vicissitude, and continue
a program of development until the modern era of prosperity overtook the state.
FRED W. VANDERPOOL, son of this pioneer, has had a successful career at Miami
for a number of years, where he conducts one of the largest general and local
insurance agencies in the state.
	FRED W. VANDERPOOL was born at Maitland, Orange County, Florida, on 
September 25, 1887, son of ISAAC and HARRIET (LANGMAN) VANDERPOOL. His father 
was born in New York City in 1850, his line of parentage being direct from the 
old Holland Dutch. His mother was born at Wolverhampten, England. ISAAC 
VANDERPOOL was one of the first pioneers to settle permanently in that rich 
horticultural section of Central Florida, of which the City of Orlando is the 
commercial metropolis. With the true spirit of the early pioneer he made his 
first break from his native soil to South America, going to Brazil where his 
sister’s husband had a very successful diamond mine. Not liking the country he 
became acquainted with HENRY S. KEDNEY (another old pioneer of the state) and 
they decided to cast a lot back to the United States and to go to Florida. Mr. 
Vanderpool came to Florida in 1870 arriving at Jacksonville. Accompanied by his 
friend they took a small boat and came down the St. Johns River to what was 
then a very small settlement known at Mellonville (now Sanford, the County seat 
of Seminole County). Mr. Vanderpool established a location on a beautiful lake 
at what is now Maitland but which at that time was a small Indian settlement. 
He received from the Government in time his patent to the 160 acres of 
homestead land which has never been out of the possession of the Vanderpool 
family and which is now owned by FRED W. VANDERPOOL. There he became a pioneer 
in the first citrus industry and was at one time one of the largest owners of 
groves and grove property in the state. He also entered the packing business 
and was one of the first successful operators of packing houses in that 
section. He was up to the time of his death consulted on citrus matters where 
he was considered an authority. He was also prominent in local politics and was 
mayor of Maitland and on the City Council for many years. As the Town of 
Maitland continued to grow the negro population began to become a menace in 
politics and Mr. Vanderpool conceived a scheme to give the negroes a town of 
their own. He together with Captain Eaton, another early settler of Florida, 
gave a large tract of land to these negroes and saw that they organized a town 
of their own which was called Eatonville. A complete negro government was 
perfected and up to this time the town continues, has its mayor, council, 
marshal, post office, and stores, being the only town of its kind in the state 
of Florida entirely governed by negroes. As a result the town of Maitland today
has no property owned by negroes in its corporate limits. It was such men as
ISAAC VANDERPOOL who through sturdy character and thorough business
characteristics laid the foundation for the general prosperity that Florida now
enjoys.
	FRED W. VANDERPOOL was reared at Orlando, acquired a public school
education, and in 1904 graduated from Rollins College at Winter Park. Mr.
Vanderpool was for a time engaged in newspaper work at Atlanta, having charge
of the Atlanta branch of the Insurance Field, a trade journal devoted to
insurance. This newspaper experience also brought him a working knowledge of
insurance as a profession, and after four years he located at Jacksonville,
Florida, and acted as special agent in this state for several large insurance
companies.	
	Since 1913 Mr. Vanderpool has been at Miami, and established himself
there in the general and local insurance business. His insurance business is
now conducted under the name of Vanderpool & Company, representing six of the
large fire companies. The casualty business is conducted under the name of
Casualty Department of Vanderpool & Company, a separate corporation, of which
Mr. Vanderpool is president. This is capitalized at $50,000, $25,000 paid in.
The casualty department does the largest business in that line at Miami. The
department acts as general agents for the Aetna Casualty Insurance Company of
Hartford.
	As noted above Mr. Vanderpool owns a large amount of property at 
Maitland, Florida, including a forty-acre orange grove, and also owns some very 
valuable property in and around Miami. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Knights of Pythias and its special
order, the D. O. K. K., and belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and is a
life member of the Elks, a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Miami and a
member of the Knights Templar. He is a member of the Miami Chamber of Commerce
and the American Legion. During the World war he was in the Quartermasters
Department in training at Camp Johnson, Jacksonville, and later transferred to
draft board duty in South Florida, with headquarters at Fort Lauderdale.


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