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Source: Vol. II  pg.45-46  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

        P. ROBERT G. SJOSTROM.  Associated for many years with big men in large 
affairs in New York City, as an attorney and expert public accountant, Mr. 
Sjostrom since transferring his residence to Florida has become recognized as 
one of the foremost men of thought and action in this state.
	His home is at Jacksonville, but his interests and influence in 
connection with business and other affairs extends as far south as Miami.
	Mr. Sjostrom is of Swedish birth and of Scotch-Swedish ancestry. He was 
eight years of age when his parents came to America and located in Canada. From 
Canada they subsequently removed to Massachusetts. His father was at one time 
recognized as one of the leading authorities on the textile and dye industry in 
Sweden and in the New England states. He removed to Florida in 1897 to spend 
his declining years, and invested heavily in the development projects around 
Miami, including Hallandale
	P. ROBERT G. SJOSTROM received his early education in Canada, attending 
Sherbrooke Academy, and at the age of fourteen began a technical and practical 
course in the manufacture of woolens. In 1881 he was graduated from the law 
department of McGill University at Montréal, and was admitted to the bar of 
Québec. A year later he accompanied his parents when they removed to Lawrence, 
Massachusetts. In 1882 he established his headquarters in New York City, and 
became active in mercantile accounting and financing. At one time he was 
treasurer and financial executive for several large corporations, with 
factories in New England and the State of New York. During twenty-nine years of 
residence in New York City, Mr. Sjostrom occupied many responsible positions as 
chief accountant and director in mercantile and banking institutions, and was 
associated with some of the notable men of finance and business there.
	Mr. Sjostrom’s father died at Miami at the ripe age of eighty years, in 
1914. The son was called to Florida to settle the estate and his residence here 
has been continuous since that time.
	Mr. Sjostrom is an indefatigable worker, is a man of remarkable 
physical energy and has a rare gift of combining physical endurance with mental 
resourcefulness so as to accomplish an immense volume of work. It is his habit 
to arise at four o’clock in the morning, and work without interruption until 
midday. It is during this period that he accomplishes all the work requiring 
inspiration or keen judgment. He is a polished and cultured gentleman as well 
as an able attorney, and is easily one of the leading attorneys of 
Jacksonville. His business interests cover enterprises of wide scope and 
importance, and to handle them more expeditiously he established another office 
at Miami, and has an elaborate suite of rooms in the Miami National Bank 
Building.
	When America entered the war with Germany his son volunteered, and Mr. 
Sjostrom himself took the civil service examination, passing with the highest 
grade among the applicants from Florida. He was selected as deputy collector of 
internal revenue under J. M. CATHCART, was made chief of the income-tax 
division and held that office until the close of the war. In the meantime he 
had been admitted to the bar after examination before the Florida Supreme 
Court. While still in the Government war service he was commissioned by the 
commissioner of internal revenue to go to Washington to audit excess profit tax 
returns, and while there was in charge of one of the units of auditors for the 
board of tax reviewers for six months.
	After his special war service Mr. Sjostrom, in 1919, opened his office 
at Jacksonville for the practice of law and accounting. He has specialized in 
income tax procedure, and his practice in that field covers the entire state. 
He organized the Jacksonville Audit Company, which has since been succeeded by 
the Sjostrom Audit Company, specializing in corporation law and accounting. By 
exact knowledge and all around resourcefulness there is probably no specialist 
in Florida better equipped for service as a financial and legal advisor in 
everything affecting corporations and individuals through the income tax rules.
	Mr. Sjostrom is a member of the National Association of Certified 
Public Accountants of Washington, District of Columbia, and a Fellow of the 
Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is a member of the Jacksonville Chamber 
of Commerce, in national politics is republican, and is affiliated with the 
Masonic fraternity, Morocco Temple of the Mystic Shrine, and the B. P. O. E. He 
is a member of the Civitan Club and other representative civic and social 
organizations at Jacksonville, and is senior warden of the vestry of St. Mary’s 
Protestant Episcopal Church.
	In 1883 at Elizabeth, New Jersey, Mr. Sjostrom married Miss EMMA IRENE 
WRIGHT. Her death occurred in 1912, and three children survive, two being 
residents of the State of New York, while the older son, PAUL R. G. SJOSTROM, 
lives at Miami. In 1915 Mr. Sjostrom married Miss HELEN IDA FLANAGAN at Miami. 
They have two children.


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