Tattnall-Emanuel County GaArchives Biographies.....Oliver, Lewis Cass April 1, 1858 - September 4, 1937
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Author: History of Florida, Past and Present Vol. 2 page 161  printed 1923

   L.C Oliver was the first lumber dealer at Miami, and as a pioneer of that 
city was identified prominently with many of the first and subsequent 
enterprises of the community.   He has been a business man of Florida for a 
period of over thirty-five years, and is still active at Miami where he owns 
and operates a model ice manufacturing plant. 
   Though born near Little Rock, Arkansas, he was only a child when his parents 
removed to Georgia and established their home at Reidsville where he was reared 
and educated.  Coming to Florida in 1887, Mr. Oliver first located at 
Titusville, where he engaged in the lumber business.
   It was early in 1896, before regular train service was established over the 
Florida East Coat Railway, that he arrived in Miami.  When trains began running 
to the city in the summer of that year, he received a consignment of several 
carloads of lumber on the first freight train, and as a lumber dealer supplied 
materials for the first structures in the new town.  He himself built the first 
residence here using it for his own home.  The house was located where the 
Urmey Hotel now stands in the heart of the business district.  Another example 
of his progressive spirit was the he brought the first automobiles to Miami.  
He also built the first ice plant in the city, and in the other ways influenced 
the early devilopment of the locality.
   After selling his lumber business and ice plant at Miami, Mr. Oliver removed 
to Jacksonville.  His home was in that city for fourteen years.   While there 
he conducted the Ford Car General Agency for Jacksonville in nineteen counties. 
During the last two years he was in this business at Jacksonville, he sold 
nearly 1,700 Ford automobiles.
   From Jacksonville in 1916 Mr Oliver took his family to live on an orange 
grove on the Indian River near Titusville, but in 1921 returned to Miami and he 
now regards his interests as permanetly centered here.  At Miami. since 
returning, he has built and is operating the Oliver Ice Company.  This plant 
has a manufacturing capacity of 225 tons a day, and has an equipment of 
thoroughly modern manufacturing machinery and facilities for the expeditious 
handling and distribution.  He does both a local and shipping business, 
supplies the ice for the refrigerator cars of the Florida East Coast Railway 
and also for yachts and ships of various character making the port of Miami.
  Mr. Oliver first married Miss Mary Gray, now deceased.  His oldest child Mrs. 
Julia Bertha Arnold is the daughter of Mary Gray Oliver.  By his second 
marriage at Jacksonville, Mr. Oliver had three children, Clara Ford Oliver, 
Louis Riley Oliver and Sidney Oliver.  

Additional Comments:
L.C. Oliver (Lewis Cass Oliver) moved to Walker Co GA shortly after this 
article went to print.  He lived in GA but he owned a diary farm just across 
the line in Tennessee.  During the stock market crash, he lost his fortune and 
moved back to Duval Co. Fl.  There was also one last child born to Lewis while 
living in Miami.  His name was James Ogilvie Oliver. Lewis's second wife and 
mother of the four children mentioned above was Louise Alcoa Boothe of 
Callahan, Nassau Co., Fl.  daughter of John Riley Boothe and Alice Amanda 
Ogilvie.

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