Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Ives, Albert M. November 16, 1849 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 September 8, 2015, 11:25 pm Source: Vol. II pg.71-72 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present ALBERT MACKEY IVES, who is now a prominent representative of the real-estate business in the City of Jacksonville, is a native of Florida and a scion of one of the pioneer families of this fair commonwealth. JEREMIAH IVES, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, early established his residence at New Smyrna, Florida, where he became a successful Indian trader, besides which he was a pioneer in Florida navigation enterprise. He operated an old estate business in the City of Jacksonville, is a native of Florida and a scion of one of the pioneer families of this fair commonwealth. JEREMIAH IVES, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, early established his residence at New Smyrna, Florida, where he became a successful Indian trader, besides which he was a pioneer in Florida navigation enterprise. He operated an old-time sailing vessel between New Smyrna and Charleston, South Carolina, and on one of his voyages he and his vessel were lost at sea, the supposition being that the boat was boarded by pirates and that he was murdered by these marauders of the high seas. After his tragic death his widow found it impossible to live among the Indians at New Smyrna and removed to St. Augustine, where later she became the wife of Col. JOHN WILLIAMS. Colonel Williams, a man of marked, was the author of a history of Florida, but this valuable compilation has never been published. ALBERT MACKEY IVES was born at Lake City, Columbia County, Florida, November 16, 1849, and is a son of EDWARD RUTLEDGE IVES and MARY JANE (HOGAN) IVES, the former of whom was born at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1818, his death having occurred in 1871, and the latter of whom was born at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1828, the year 1909 having recorded her death. EDWARD R. IVES first married ELIZA HOGAN, and they became the parents of two sons, both of whom are deceased. After the death of his first wife Mr. Ives married her younger sister, Mary Jane, and of the five children of this union the subject of this sketch was the firstborn and the only son, one of his sisters being deceased. The Hogan family name has been identified with the history of Jacksonville since the early pioneer period, and a street in this city perpetuates the name. After the death of the father and mother of ELIZA and MARY JANE HOGAN, I. D. HART, the founder of Jacksonville, became their guardian. EDWARD R. IVES received good educational advantages, as gauged by the standards of his day, and he prepared himself for the legal profession. He served as a soldier in the Indian wars of 1835 and 1855, and in 1859 he purchased a steamboat at Cedar Keys. He brought his vessel to Jacksonville and put it into commission on the St. Johns River, in opposition to the vessel operated by Captain Brock, who was the first to operate a steamboat on this river. Mr. Ives ran his vessel between Jacksonville and Enterprise until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he placed the boat in the service of the Confederate government, as a transport for troops and war supplies. When the Federal troops captured Fernandina they ran the Ives steamboat up the St. Mary’s River and later the boat was used as a blockade runner. In his earlier life EDWARD R. IVES followed the trade of carpenter, and at the inception of the Civil war he was postmaster at Lake City, an office he retained many years, besides which he served as mayor of that city and was one of its most honored and influential citizens. He had the distinction of being the first man in Florida to receive the thirty-third and ultimate degree in the Scottish Right of the Masonic fraternity, and at the time of his death he was grand lecture of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Florida. He was originally a whig and thereafter a democrat in politics, and he held membership in the Universalist Church. ALBERT M. IVES acquired his early education in the schools of Lake City and Jacksonville, and in 1862, at the age of thirteen years, he became a mail carrier in the service of the Confederate government, his activity in this capacity having continued until the close of the war, and his work having been in the carrying of mail from Confederate Army headquarters at Lake City to different points in the state. He also served in the ordnance Department at Lake City. After the war he held clerical positions at Lake City, and in 1871 he became a clerk in a grocery store at Jacksonville. In 1873 he took a position as railway messenger in the service of the Southern Express Company, and three months later he was advanced the position of route agent clerk. In 1876 he was appointed agent for the Plant Railway system of Florida, constituting the present Atlantic Coast Railroad, and about one year later he was made city ticket agent for the system at Jacksonville, in which connection he here opened the first city ticket office, at 17 West Bay Street. He retained this position for about eight months and then, in 1878, was made route agent for the Southern Express Company, with jurisdiction over Florida and a part of Georgia. He retained this office until 1883, when he resumed his service as Jacksonville agent for the Plant Railroad system, besides acting as agent for the street railway system of Jacksonville, the motive power of which was at that time the lowly but efficient mule. In 1885 Mr. Ives resigned these positions to accept that of general manager and treasurer of the Florida Fruit Exchange, which was organized by growers of Florida fruits, GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS having been president of the corporation, which continued its operations until 1899, when the business was disrupted by the memorable destruction of Florida orange trees by freezing. In January of that year Mr. Ives was elected city treasurer of Jacksonville, and the admirable administration which he gave is indicated by the fact that he was retained in this important fiscal office for 10 ½ years. In 1899 also he established himself in the naval-stores business, in partnership with JOHN H. PATTERSON. The firm of Ives & Patterson continued this enterprise until 1911, since which year Mr. Ives has given his attention to the buying and selling of real estate. He is a director of the Florida National Bank and is one of the well-known and highly honored citizens of the Florida metropolis. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, he having served as a member of the vestry of his parish. On 16 June, 1874, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ives and Miss KATIE E. BRYSON, who was born at Hendersonville, North Carolina, a daughter of Judge WILLIAM and EVELINE (PLUMLEY) BRYSON, both likewise natives of that state, Mrs. Ives having been the sixth of their 11 children. She passed away March 24, 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Ives had no children. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/duval/bios/ives160bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 7.6 Kb