Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Hathaway, Fons A. April 8, 1877 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.91  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        FONS A. HATHAWAY. The thorough modern educational plant and system that
is the pride of Jacksonville owes its existence in a large measure to the
responsible leadership in the enthusiasm of FONS A. HATHAWAY, who since 1914
has been superintendent of schools of the city.
	Mr. Hathaway is a Florida educator in native son, born in Holmes 
County, April 8, 1877, son of JAMES WILBURN and SARAH JANE (REGISTER) HATHAWAY. 
Education has been his life work. Mr. Hathaway graduated A. B. from Florida 
State College in 1902, and in 1911 received his Bachelor’s degree from the
University of Florida, and that institution in 1918, in recognition of his
distinguished services to the cause of education, bestowed upon him the
honorary degree LL. D.
	Doctor Hathaway from 1902 to 1909 was principal of the High School of 
Orlando. In the latter year he came to Duval County, served as principal of the 
Duval High School in Jacksonville, and in 1914 took up his duties as 
superintendent of city schools. In subsequent years, in spite of the heavy 
handicap imposed by the war, he reconstructed the school system, involving a 
building program of requiring an outlay of more than $2,500,000. Doctor 
Hathaway is a member of the University Club of Jacksonville, is a Mason and 
Knight of Pythias, a Phi Kappa Phi, is a democrat, a director of the N. E. A.
from Florida and a member and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church,
Jacksonville. He married on June 1903, ANNIE ELIZABETH VAN BRUNT, of
Tallahassee. Their home is at 100 Bayard Place.


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