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Source: Vol. II  pg.104-105  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        CAROL MATHESON HAILE, general agent of the Merchants and Minors 
Transportation Company, has been identified with transportation systems since 
his entrance upon the arena of business life thirty-five years ago. During his 
career he has been associated with a number of the large lines, and is well-known
not only at his home city of Jacksonville but throughout the state as a man of
marked capability, broad judgment, ripe experience and sound acumen. He has the full
confidence of his associates and the general esteem of the community.
	Mr. Haile was born December 15, 1870, in Alachua County, Florida, a son of THOMAS
EVANS and ESTHER SERENA (CHESNUT) HAILE, and a grandson of JOHN and ELLEN (WHITAKER)
CHESNUT, of Camden County South Carolina. BENJAMIN HAILE, the paternal grandfather
of CAROL M. HAILE, was born at Camden, January 10, 1798, and for his second wife
married AMELIA EVANS, who was born at the same placed January 15, 1798, she being
the grandmother of CAROL M. HAILE. THOMAS EVANS HAILE was born at Camden, May 31,
1824, and there married March 13, 1847, ESTHER SEVENA (sic) CHESNUT, who was born at
Camden, May 31, 1826. In 1855, after the birth of five of their children, they moved
to 
known not only at his home city of Jacksonville but throughout the state as a
man of marked capability, broad judgment, ripe experience and sound acumen. He
has the full confidence of his associates and the general esteem of the
community.
	Mr. Haile was born December 15, 1870, in Alachua County, Florida, a son 
of THOMAS EVANS and ESTHER SERENA (CHESNUT) HAILE, and a grandson of JOHN and 
ELLEN (WHITAKER) CHESNUT, of Camden County South Carolina. BENJAMIN HAILE, the 
paternal grandfather of CAROL M. HAILE, was born at Camden, January 10, 1798, 
and for his second wife married AMELIA EVANS, who was born at the same placed 
January 15, 1798, she being the grandmother of CAROL M. HAILE. THOMAS EVANS 
HAILE was born at Camden, May 31, 1824, and there married March 13, 1847, 
ESTHER SEVENA (sic) CHESNUT, who was born at Camden, May 31, 1826. In 1855, 
after the birth of five of their children, they moved to Kanapaha, Florida, 
where the remainder of their children were born. Mrs. Haile died December 7, 
1895, at Gainesville, Florida. Mr. Haile’s death occurred December 31, 1896, at 
Tallahassee, this state. Of their fifteen children, fourteen lived to maturity, 
and seven sons and one daughter still survives. THOMAS EVANS HAILE was the 
educated in the public schools of Camden, where he spent his boyhood and youth 
on his father’s plantation, and eventually engaged in cotton raising on his own 
account, cultivating his fields and harvesting his crops by slave labor. When 
the war between the states came on he enlisted in the Confederate Army, under 
Captain Dickinson, of the First Florida Regiment, with which he took part in 
numerous battles, skirmishes and marches, and at all times proved a brave and 
faithful soldier, retiring from military life with a splendid record. At the 
close of the war he returned to his plantation at Kanapaha, and continued to 
follow the same line of business until his death. He was a stanch democrat in 
politics, but never cared for public life. Fraternally he belonged to the 
Masons, and his religious connection was with the Presbyterian Church, in which 
he served for some years as a deacon. He and his wife had the following 
children: JOHN CHESNUT, born January 14, 1848, died at Kanapaha, Florida, 
January 21, 1867; ELLEN WHITAKER, born March 28, 1849, died July 27, 1850, at 
Camden, South Carolina; AMELIA EVANS, born November 28, 1850, died at 
Tallahassee, Florida, November 26, 1902; BENJAMIN, born March 13, 1852, died at 
Arredondo, Florida, October 10, 1889; THOMAS EVANS, Jr., born August 18, 1853, 
died at Kanapaha, December 29, 1886; JAMES CHESNUT, born June 29, 1855, died at
Kanapaha, May 9, 1891; WILLIAM EDWARD, born February 10, 1857; LAWRENCE W
WHITAKER, born July 15, 1858; MARY CHESNUT, born September 22, 1859; CHARLES
EVANS, born January 11, 1861; WALTER KENNEDY, born June 30, 1862, died at
Jacksonville March 20, 1920; SYDNEY, born October 18, 1864; GEORGE R., born
December 20, 1865; EVANS, born June 11, 1869; and CAROL MATHESON.
	The youngest of his parents children, CAROL M. HAILE received his 
education in the public schools of Alachua County, Florida, and spent his 
boyhood and youth on his father’s farm up to the time he was seventeen years of
age, when he entered upon his independent career as an employee of the Florida
Railway and Navigation Company, in the operating department. He remained with
this line and its successor, the Florida Central and Peninsula Company, until
1896, in which year he engaged with the Southern Express Company in the
capacity of route agent. This association remained in force until 1905, when
Mr. Haile joined the Seaboard Air Line Railway, and for fourteen years was
traveling auditor and freight agent at Jacksonville. Since 1919 he has been
general agent for the Merchants and Minors Transportation Company in Florida,
and is accounted one of his company's most capable and trusted employees. He is
an energetic and industrious transportation man, and one who is familiar with
all the details of the business, having worked his way up through the various
departments. Mr. Haile is chairman of the Board of Deacons of the Springfield
Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville, is a democrat in politics, and belongs to
the Kiwanis Club.
	On March 7, 1894, Mr. Haile married Miss ETTA DUPRAY, who was born in
Duval County, Florida, daughter of WILLIAM and CAROLINA (COY) DUPRAY, natives
of the State of Maine. Mrs. Haile is the youngest of three children. Two sons
and three daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Haile: LOUISE, the wife of
R. N. DOW, who had one son, ELWELL EVANS, who died in infancy; CAROLYN; and
WALTER KENNEDY and MILDRED LOVE, twins.


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