Polk County FlArchives Biographies.....COUNCIL, JESSE F. March 2, 1869 - 
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Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923, Vol. III pg.11

	COUNCIL, JESSE FARRY is one of the best known railroad officials in 
Florida.  For eighteen years he has been division superintendent of the 
Atlantic Coast Line at Lakeland.  Mr. COUNCIL has had an interesting record of 
promotions and advancement since he took up railroading in the capacity of a 
flagman more than thirty years ago.
	He was born at Reevesville, South Carolina, March 2, 1869, a son of 
CHARLES R. and MILDRED P.(FARRY) COUNCIL, his father a native of Bladen 
County, North Carolina, and his mother of Orangeburg County, South Carolina.  
Of their seven children JESSE F. COUNCIL is the oldest.
	Mr. COUNCIL was reared and educated in South Carolina, attending 
public schools there.  In 1890 when he was twenty-one years of age he became a 
flagman on a run from Charleston to Wilmington, North Carolina.  From flagman 
he was advanced to freight conductor on the division running to Columbia, 
Norfolk and Savannah.  About five years later he was appointed general yard 
master at Charlestown, and in two years was made trainmaster of the 
Charlestown division.  He left this post to return to the same service as 
passenger conductor between Florence, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia.  
His next transfer was to Wilmington, as trainmaster of the Atlantic Coast 
Lines.  He went there in 1904, and in 1905 was made trainmaster at 
Charlestown, and in 1906 was appointed superintendent of the Norfolk Division 
of the Atlantic Coast Line with headquarters at Norfolk.  Just six months 
later he came to Lakeland, Florida, as division superintendent and has 
efficiently served the railroad company and the local interests of his 
division now for eighteen years.
	Mr. COUNCIL has his home and other interests permanently identified 
with Lakeland.  He has invested in citrus groves, in city property and also 
has some holdings in Lee County.  He has been a director for ten years and is 
a member of the finance committee of the First National Bank of Lakeland and 
owns stock in other local enterprises.  Mr. COUNCIL is a member of the Elks, 
the Order of Railway Conductors and the American Association of Railroad 
Superintendents.
	In 1897 he married Miss LILLIE KENNEDY of Charlestown, now deceased.  
They lost their only child.  In 1907 he married FANNIE NELSON of Lakeland.  
They have one daughter JESSIE FARRY.  Mr. COUNCIL has taken an active part in 
local affairs, and has served on the city council and school board and at the 
last election was candidate for mayor.  He has been on the official board of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church for twelve years.


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