Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Jeffries, Calvin H. December 15, 1883 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.129  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        CALVIN H. JEFFRIES as a young man learned the wagon-making trade, and
he has been in that line of industry ever since. At Tampa he is owner and
proprietor of an important industry manufacturing bodies for trucks and
automobiles and handling all the painting, blacksmithing and other work in
connection with automobiles and other vehicles.
	Mr. Jeffries was born in Russell County, Alabama, December 15, 1883, 
son of HENRY and JENNY (HOWELL) JEFFRIES. His parents were also born in 
Alabama, and his father is still living there. CALVIN H. JEFFRIES, youngest in 
a family of four children, was reared in Alabama and had a common school 
education. At the age of fifteen he began making his own living, and he worked 
at different things until he began his apprenticeship as a wagonmaker at 
Clermont, Georgia, with the Davis Wagon Company. He was an apprentice four 
years, and then for about two years he worked as a journeyman with the Columbus 
Buggy Company at Columbus, Georgia, and in 1903 came to Florida. He was 
connected with the wagon-building firm of Hobbs & Knight for two years, one 
year with the Homes-Buckley Company and six years with the Tampa Harness and
Wagon Company. In 1915 Mr. Jeffries bought out the business of the Tampa
Harness and Wagon Company, and has since largely adopted the industry to the
needs of the dominant automobile and motor truck. He has a plant with about
fourteen employees, and gives every detail of his work personal supervision.
	Mr. Jeffries married OLIVE KIMBROUGH, of Phoenix, Alabama. Their three
children are: ETHEL, CALVIN, Jr., and KATE or DIXIE. Mr. Jeffries is a York
Rite Mason and Shriner.
      

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