St Johns County FlArchives Biographies.....Genovar, William P. March 17, 1866 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.89-90  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

        WILLIAM P. GENOVAR. Biography contains no more interesting study than 
the lives of self-made man. They are a product of democracy, and they are its
vindication. If there were need to establish the truth of this declaration, it
is evident in the thousands of men who have won success solely through the
medium of their own merit. At St. Augustine there are many of this class to be
found, among them a number of native sons, and in this class stands WILLIAM P.
GENOVAR, proprietor of a thriving retail cigar business, located at 178 St.
George Street.
	Mr. GENOVAR belongs to family which has resided at St. Augustine for 
many years, and was born in the city, March 17, 1866, a son of WILLIAM and 
MONICA (MASTERS) GENOVAR. His father, born at St. Augustine, in 1840, was still 
a youth when he took part in the Indian warfare incident to this section, and 
later answered the call of the South and enlisted in the flag of the 
Confederacy for participation in the war between the states. He wore the gray 
all through the four years of that struggle, at the close of which he returned 
to St. Johns County and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He followed this line 
of endeavor during the remainder of his life, became a highly respected 
citizen, and passed away at the ripe old age of eighty years, in 1920. He was a 
democrat in his political belief, and a devout member of the Roman Catholic 
church. Mrs. Genovar, who was also born at St. Augustine, died in 1917, when 
seventy-seven years of age. They were the parents of five sons and three d
daughters, of whom three sons and one daughter are now living, William P. being
the second in order of birth.
	WILLIAM P. GENOVAR attended the public and parochial schools of St. 
Augustine, and his first employment was as a clerk and salesman in a retail 
store. He was thus employed until 1895, in which year he embarked in business 
as proprietor of a retail cigar store, a business with which he has been 
identified ever since. He is now in the enjoyment of a large and prosperous 
trade, built up through industry, good management, and honorable dealing, and 
carries a large stock of all popular brands of cigars, tobacco, cigarettes, 
pipes and smokers' articles. He has an attractive sales room, and during the 
course of twenty-seven years has attracted to himself many warm friends. Mr.
Genovar is one of the influential democrats of his community and takes an
interest in public matters, though his only public office has been that of city
treasurer, in which he served efficiently for four years. Fraternally he is
affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, and his religious connection is with
the Roman Catholic Church.
	On November 18, 1892, Mr. Genovar married Miss MAUD M. MIOT, of
Columbia, South Carolina, and to this union there have been born two sons;
HARRY M. and WILLIAM P., Jr.


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