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Source: Vol. II  pg.123  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        FLOYD E. WALLER has been a resident of the City of Miami since 1916, is
here president of the Waller Construction & Supply Company, and is one of the
progressive and loyal business men who are contributing much to the furtherance
of the civic and material advancement and prosperity of this fair Florida city.
	Mr. Waller was born and reared in Winnebago County, Illinois, where he 
was afforded the advantages of the public schools and where he learned in his 
youth the carpenter’s trade. He followed his trade in his native county until 
his removal to the great City of Chicago, where he became superintendent of 
construction for one of the important contracting and building firms of the 
western metropolis. Later he removed to Texas and became a successful 
contractor and builder in the City of Nacogdoches. In 1905 he came to Florida, 
and after having been engaged about eight years in the building-material 
business at Jacksonville, where he specialized in the manufacturing of cement 
blocks, he removed in 1916, to Miami, which vital and progressive city made 
strong appeal to him by reason of its attractions as a place of residence and 
as a stage of business enterprise. Here he has developed a large and important 
industry in the manufacturing of concrete blocks, and the enterprise is carried 
forward under the corporate title of the Waller Construction & Supply Company. 
The modern plant of this company, of which he is the president, is situated on 
the line of the Florida East Coast Railroad, at Northeast Twenty-second Street, 
and here are manufactured concrete building blocks of the highest grade, the 
superior quality of the product having been demonstrated by pressure test 
conducted under the direction of the leading architect at Miami. This test 
showed that the Waller cement blocks excel all others manufactured in this 
section of the state. The blocks are produced through the medium of the famous
Besser
Besser machine, widely known among builders and construction engineers as
producing the best and most durable concrete blocks. The blocks manufactured by
this machine are of standard size, as defined by the United States bureau of
standards. The Waller Construction & Supply Company, of which Mr. FLOYD E.
WALLER is a president, P. J. MONSER, secretary and treasurer, has developed a
large and prosperous business in the supplying of concrete blocks for
architectural and structural purposes and also controls a prosperous business
in contracting and building operations in which cement and steel construction
is demanded. Mr. Waller is a loyal and valued member of the Miami Chamber of
Commerce and also the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. He is a Scottish Rite
Mason and is affiliated also with the Mystic Shrine.


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