Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Folk, Edward H. July 9, 1879 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.55-56  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        EDWARD H. FOLK, vice president and manager of the West Coast Fertilizer
Company, is one of the sound and dependable business men of Tampa who has won
appreciation and attained to prosperity through his own unremitting efforts. He
was born in South Carolina, July 9, 1879, a son of C. L. and SALLY M. (HIERS)
FOLK, both of whom were born in South Carolina, where the father still resides,
but the mother is deceased. They had seven children, of whom EDWARD H. FOLK was
the sixth in order of birth.
	Reared and educated in his native state EDWARD H. FOLK grew to useful 
manhood, and in 1904 went to Savannah, Georgia, where he remained for two 
years, and then, in 1906, came to Florida, and for two years was in the employ 
of the Barker Chemical Company at Inglis. In 1908 he accepted the position of
bookkeeper for the Gulf Fertilizer Company of Tampa, and held it until 1914
when he became interested in the newly established West Coast Fertilizer
Company as a stockholder and was made its manager. In 1918 he was elected its
vice president, and he holds that office as well as that of general manager of
the company. Under his watchful supervision the business has steadily expanded
and a very large trade is had over a wide territory. Mr. Folk has other
interests and is a director of the Bank of Commerce of Tampa, and owns an
interest in a ranch in Glades County, Florida.
	In 1906 Mr. Folk was married to BLANCH CALHOUN, of Augusta, Georgia. 
They have no children. Fraternally he belongs to the Masons and Knights of 
Pythias. Reared a democrat he has continued faithful to the principles of that 
party all his life, and still supports the candidates of it. He is a charter 
member of the Kiwanis Club. He is a splendid type of the business man who has 
made Tampa one of the leading commercial centers of the South, and yet his 
interests in business are not of that absorbing kind which precludes activity 
along lines which make for well-rounded character and development. He is a man 
of broad information in many directions. His personal acquaintance with leading 
citizens of note is a broad one and his spirit of good fellowship makes life 
brighter for those with whom he comes into contact.

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