Seminole County FlArchives Biographies.....Key, Arthur R. August 11, 1886 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co., Vol II, page 14-15 , 1923
Author: The History of Florida: Past & Present 

        KEY, ARTHUR RAYMOND is a native of Florida, began his career in the 
railroad service, and for some years has been a prominent banker at Sanford 
where he is vice-president and cashier of the Seminole County Bank.
	He was born in the Town of Eustis, Lake County, August 11, 1886, son of 
ATHUR D. and MINNIE ELIZABETH (WRIGHT) KEY.  ARTHUR D. KEY was born in London, 
England, and was ten years of age when he came with his parents, a brother and 
two sisters to the United States.  The family located at New York City, where 
he grew up. In 1877 he came to Florida, settling at Eustis, which was his home 
for twenty years. He became a successful orange grower there. After leaving 
Eustis he lived at Tangerine about four years. and then moved to Sanford, where 
he was engaged in the business of celery farming until his death in July, 1919, 
at the age of seventy-six. His wife, MINNIE ELIZABETH WRIGHT, whom he married 
at Tangerine, was born at Port Huron, Michigan, and is now living at Sanford. 
Her parents were RAYMOND J. and EMILY L. (CARKENER) WRIGHT.   RAYMOND J. WRIGHT 
was born in New York State, but from an early age lived with his family at Port 
Huron, Michigan, became a surveyor, later a merchant at Port Huron, and about 
1875, came to Florida and was one of the founders who laid out the town of 
Tangerine, which be named for the fruit grown in that district. He was in every 
way a leader in the community, a successful orange grower, and died when about 
sixty-five years of age. He was a democrat.  ARTHUR D. KEY was also a staunch 
democrat, and was a devoted member of the Episcopal Church. He had a prominent 
part in the upbuilding of the church of this denomination at Eustis, Florida.  
ARTHUR D. KEY was one of the early founders of Eustis, Florida. He settled 
there in the early '70s, driving from Sanford by team. He took up a tract of 
land, and he and his sisters opened an "Inn", where many hunters made their 
headquarters, as game was very abundant in the early days of that settlement. 
It is stated that deer had to be killed to keep them from destroying the garden 
vegetables. ARTHUR D. KEY was one of the substantial citizens of Eustis and 
supported every cause for advancement, both political and civic, and he was one 
of the first to successfully grow oranges on a commercial scale.
	The only child of his parents, ARTHUR RAYMOND KEY, has spent the years 
of his life so far in three communities, at Eustis, nine years, at Tangerine 
four years and since then at Sanford.  He was educated in the public schools, 
and was only fifteen when he went to work in the office of the superintendent 
of the Atlantic Coasr Line Railroad at Sanford. He soon left there to become 
collection clerk with the First National Bank of Sanford. Altogether he 
remained with that institution eleven years, and was assistant cashier when he 
resigned. Mr. Key was associated with
Forrest Lake in organizing the Seminole County Bank in 1913, and became its 
first cashier. Since then the additional duties of vice president have been 
given him. Mr. Key is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, is a 
democrat, belongs to the Episcopal Church, is a Knight Templar Mason and 
Shriner, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Elks and the 
Sanford Country Club.
	In 1919 he married Miss ELSIE ELOISE RICE, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 
They have one daughter, ADELAIDE CARMEN KEY.


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