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Gustavus Adolphus Petteway

     Although he was denied the educational advantages that are ordinarly
enjoyed by the youth of today, Gustavus Adolphus Petteway was born of Christian
parents, and in his home the influences were the best. His father was a poor man
and unable to give his children the advantages that he would have liked to, but
he taught them energy, honesty, sobriety and veracity, four principles which Mr.
Petteway declares have been the greatest help he has found in his business. Mr.
Petteway has been engaged in the manufacture and handling of naval stores all
his life, and although he began work at a small salary, only a few years ago, by
industry, economy and enterprise he made rapid advancement, when opportunity
availed, and he is now in charge of the Tampa office of the Peninsula Naval
Stores Company, a corporation with $1,000,000 capital stock, of which he is
second vice-president, and in which his now large interests are centered.

    Mr. Petteway was born at Tar Landing, N. C., August 6, 1873. His father was
Louis S. Petteway, a carpenter who worked at his trade, and his mother, Sarah
Catherine (Williams) Petteway. Mr. Petteway was the fourth son in a family of
fourteen children. The only educational advantages he enjoyed were those offered
by the country free schools of North Carolina. He was taught to work, however,
and to live uprightly, and there were in the home training other compensations
for what was lacking in the school facilities.

    Mr. Petteway removed to Colquitt county, Ga., in September, 1894, and
secured a position at a nominal salary with K. W. Horne, a naval stores operator
at Obe, now Norman's Fork. After working here three years his employer sent him
to Sorrento, Fla., to work for a firm in which he was interested. After two
years of work in Florida, Mr. Petteway left Sorrento, and having accumulated
some means, bought an interest in a turpentine farm at Leroy, Fla. As managing
partner, he successfully conducted the business until 1906, when he purchased
stock in the Peninsula Naval Stores Company, and was made a vice-president of
that corporation, with general charge of the Tampa office. Mr. Petteway has,
during his business life, been interested in several naval stores concerns, and
the principal factor in some of them. In 1907, however, he disposed of all his
holdings in other concerns and his interests are now centered in the one industry.

   Mr. Petteway has five brothers, all engaged in the naval stores business in
Florida. Three brothers and two sisters are still in North Carolina, the two
sisters living at the old home place, two of the three brothers and one of the
sisters are in college, through the appreciation which Mr. Petteway and two of
his brothers have of the advantages of education, and their laudable
determination to give their younger brothers the facilities which they did not
enjoy. Mr. Petteway is taking an especial interest in his youngest brother, and
expects to have him take the law course in Harvard. The father of this large and
exemplary family died in 1907, but the mother is still living and being tenderly
cared for by her loving and appreciative children.

    Mr. Petteway was married February 5, 1902, to Louise V. Hone, a daughter of
Henry K. and Sarah J. Hone. They have had three children, of whom one, Oscar
Earle, survives.

    Mr. Petteway is a Democrat, and while not connected with any church
organization, he has a partiality for the primitive Baptist faith. He is a
member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, and the Elks, and believes
that in education and morality lie the safety, prosperity and happiness of the
nation.


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FLORIDA EDITION
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY AN ABLE CORPS OF WRITERS
VOL. II.
Published under the patronage of
The Florida Historical Society, Jacksonville, Florida

ADVISORY BOARD:
HON. W. D. BLOXHAM          COL. FRANK HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS            SEN. H. H. MCCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING          W. F. STOVALL
      C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY
1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.


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