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Tracy Lucien Acosta

    In no business in the world is repeated promotion and steady advancement in
official position a more reliable indication of worth than in the insurance
business. The great companies which are in lively competition for business,
waste no sentiment in selecting their important representatives. Nothing counts
with them but results, and the man who can produce results is the one they are
looking for. The agent who occasionally writes business and earns expenses may
not lose his contract, but the agent who leads in new business and earns the big
commissions, is the man whose name is considered when it comes to the selection
of superintendents and managers and state agents. It follows that the men
holding these positions are of pleasant address, indistrious, energetic,
persevering, of a high degree of intellectuality and of unassailable integrity.
All this is true of Tracy Lucien Acosta, state agent for Florida of the Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Company, with headquarters at Jacksonville.

    Mr. Acosta is a native of Florida, having been born at Starke in Bradford
County, Nov. 18, 1862. His parents were Eustace John, and Catherine Hatcher
Acosta, and soon after his birth they removed to Georgia. He attended the public
schools as a child, and from the grammar school at Blackshear, Ga., went to the
Savannah High school. After taking the course there, he entered the University
of Georgia at Athens, where he remained only during the Junior year, at the end
of that time, in 1890, engaging in the life insurance business at Blackshear,
Ga., as a special agent for the Penn Mutual Life insurance Company. While making
his home in Blackshear he served as a member of the Board of Education of Pierce
County. He was so successful in writing insurance that in two years his company
appointed him general agent in South Carolina. Here he made good, and in
eighteen months, when it became necessary to name a new state agent in Florida,
they conferred upon him this responsible and remunerative position, with
headquarters at Jacksonville, and since 1895 he has filled the duties with
satisfaction to his company and profit to himself. He has a splendid income, and
has won for himself a position of high standing in the metropolis.

   He is a director in the State Bank of Florida, of Jacksonville, and on Jan.
25, 1905, was appointed a Colonel on the staff of the Governor the State. On
Jan. 1, 1908, he was accorded an even higher honor, being appointed a member of
the Board of Public Works of Jacksonville. He is prominent in club and social
life, being a member of the Florida Country Club, the Florida Yacht Club, and
the Seminole Club of Jacksonville. He is a member of Solomon Lodge of the Free
and Accepted Masons and member of Florida Chapter Royal Arch Masons. He is a
member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in politics is a Democrat.

    Mr. Acosta was married in December, 1892, to Cora B. Bailey, a daughter of
James Sylvester and Nancy Bailey, of Bailey's Mills, Camden County, Georgia.
They have had four children, three of whom are living, as follows: Tracy, John
Sylvester and Catherine Edmund Acosta.


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FLORIDA EDITION
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY AN ABLE CORPS OF WRITERS
VOL. II.
Published under the patronage of
The Florida Historical Society, Jacksonville, Florida

ADVISORY BOARD:
HON. W. D. BLOXHAM          COL. FRANK HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS            SEN. H. H. MCCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING          W. F. STOVALL
      C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY
1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.


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