St Johns County FlArchives Biographies.....Garnett, Robert S. April 14, 1877 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.118-119  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        ROBERT S. GARNETT, M. D.  In the twenty years since he graduated from
Medical College Doctor Garnett has won many distinctions in his profession. He
is regarded as a most scholarly man of medicine, and a leader who has always
sought the best interests of the profession both as an individual and as an
officer in medical organizations and institutions.
	His father, Doctor R. B. GARNETT, who in his eighty-fourth year, is one
of the most vigorous and thoroughly allied citizens of Saint Augustine, which
has been his home for over forty years. Doctor R. B. GARNETT practiced medicine
for a few years after coming to Florida, but has given the greater part of his
time to various constructive developments in and around St. Augustine. He was
born at Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, May 7, 1838, son of JOHN and ELIZA
(BROOKIE) GARNETT, natives of Kentucky, who established their home in Missouri
about 1830. JOHN GARNETT in 1856 established the mercantile business of John
Garnett & Company at St. Louis, and was actively connected with it until 1862,
when he died.
	R. B. GARNETT was twenty-four years of age when his father died, in
1862. Subsequently he took up the study of medicine, graduated from St. Lewis
Medical College in 1874, and in 1876 removed from St. Louis to Crescent City,
Florida. He soon had a very successful practice, and in 1882 removed to the
larger city of St. Augustine. He bought two tracts of land, comprising about
forty acres, in the north part of that city, and the management of this
property and his other affairs soon involved his time almost to the exclusion
of his professional work. He platted much of the land and sold it as the
Garnett subdivision. He also developed a business property at Bridge in
Washington streets. He has been interested in several banking and real estate
corporations in Florida and elsewhere. His home place includes the Garnett
Grove, one of the most interesting places in this section of Florida and one
that has been visited by thousands of tourists. One feature of the Grove is a
magnificent Live Oak, said to be over 500 years old. Doctor R. B. GARNETT for
many years has had the only orange grove in this section in the vicinity of St.
Augustine. He has about 400 orange trees, many grape fruit trees, and also
kumquats. About twenty years ago he planted a number of pecan trees, and has
between 130 and 140 of these trees in bearing condition. The crops he sold in
1922 amounted to over 4,000 pounds of pecans. His commercial interests, his
real estate development, his long experience in Florida and his interesting and
genial personality make R. B. GARNETT easily one of the most conspicuous
citizens of St. Augustine. On December 3, 1874, he married MARY JOSEPHINE
MITCHELL, who was born in St. Louis in 1854. Her parents were natives of
Kentucky. R. B. GARNET and wife had two children: Doctor Robert S. and
CATHERINE ESTELLE. The daughter is the wife of J. J. MURPHY.
	Doctor ROBERT S. GARNETT was born at Crescent City, Florida, April 14, 
1877, but since he was about five years of age has lived at St. Augustine. He 
was educated in Spring Hill College at Mobile, Alabama, with the class of 1898, 
and later entered the medical department of Georgetown University at 
Washington, D. C., where he graduated in 1903. Doctor Garnett after graduating 
in medicine removed to Tacoma, Washington, and served as house physician and
accoucheur
accoucheur the of St. Joseph’s Hospital in that city from July 1, 1903, until
July 1, 1904. He then conducted a private practice in Washington until 1912,
when he returned to St. Augustine. Besides his extensive general practice he
has served as a member of the staff of the Flagler Hospital and the Florida
East Coast Railway Hospital. He is a member of the Saint Johns County, the
Florida State and American Medical associations, and is a fourth degree Knight
of Columbus.
	May 12, 1908, he married ELIZABETH McNERTHNEY. She is a native of
Wisconsin. Their four children are PHILIP, MARY, RUBEN and ROBERT.


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