Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....Wingate, Cassie B. October 29, 1883 - 
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Source: Vol. II pg. 20-21 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

 WINGATE, CASSIE B. is senior member of the firm of Wingate & Shaw, which owns 
and operates the San Juan Garage in the City of Daytona and which figures also 
as the local representative agency for the celebrated Packard and Studebaker 
automobiles. Mr. Wingate is known as one of the progressive business men of the 
younger generation in his native county, his birth having occurred at the 
family homestead on the banks of the Tomoka River in Volusia County, five miles 
northwest of Ormond, and the date of his nativity was October 29, 1883. He is a 
son of THOMAS FRANKLIN and GEORGIA ANN (SMITH) WINGATE, the former of whom was 
born in the State of Georgia and the latter at Lake City, Florida, to which 
state her parents came from Georgia. THOMAS F. WINGATE accompanied his parents 
on their removal from Georgia to Florida, settlement being first made in 
Manatee County and the family home having later been established in Volusia 
County, on the banks of the Tomoka River. THOMAS F. WINGATE became a successful 
exponent of farm industry in Volusia County, near Ormond, and was interested 
also in the growing of oranges and other citrus fruits. He finally removed from 
his farm to Ormond, and later he established his residence at Daytona, in 1903. 
Here he passed the remainder of his life, and he was sixty-one years of age at 
the time of his death, in August, 1921, his wife having passed away July 10, 
1919, at the age of fifty-four years, their two surviving children are CASSIE 
B. and MINNIE.
	The youthful education of CASSIE B. WINGATE was acquired in the schools 
of Ormond and Daytona, and after leaving school he became a clerk in a grocery 
store known as the Teapot and owned by J. E. RUSH, at Daytona. Later he was in 
the employ of the Conrad Grocery Company, and finally he engaged in the bicycle 
business, with stores at Ormond and Daytona. For ten summer seasons he gave 
effective service as a skilled chauffeur in the northern states, while in the 
intervening winter seasons he was for the most part similarly engaged at 
Daytona, Florida.
	He passed four summer seasons at Chautauqua, New York; one at Corry, 
Pennsylvania; and four at St. Joseph, Michigan, on the shore of Lake Michigan.
	In 1914 Mr. Wingate purchased a half interest in the San Juan Garage, 
and the firm of which he is senior member is now preparing to erect on the site 
of its original establishment in Daytona one of the finest garage buildings in 
Florida, the same to be 165 x 210 feet in dimensions and to be equipped with 
the most modern improvements known to the business. Mr. Wingate is a popular 
member of the Daytona Motor Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and he is an 
enthusiast in connection with the automobile business and service, he having 
taken lively interest in the celebrated automobile races held at Daytona Beach. 
His name still appears on the list of eligible young bachelors in his native 
county.



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