In one ten-year period Florida exported to Cuba $7,000,000 worth
of cattle. In a later five year period, $2,600,000 worth were
exported. This was entirely above and beyond the local consump-
tion.
Our subject, K. B. Raulerson, of Fort Pierce, is a cattle man,
and though he still adheres to the primary industry of the State,
he is a thoroughly up-to-date citizen upon all questions of modern
import. Mr. Raulerson, like most of the men engaged in the cattle
business, is a native of the State. He was born at Seville, in Volusia
county, on September 19, 1861. The family is of Welsh descent
and their first progenitor in this country settled in Georgia. W 7 ade
H. Raulerson, the father of K. B. moved from Georgia to Florida
in 1858 and married Katherine Hart of Seville, Fla. Young
322 K.i:u,iri I.I.Y BRAXTON R.u I.I.RSON
Raulerson obtained such education as the public schools at Geneva,
FLi., could give him, and in 1881, then barely grown, he engaged in
farming and stock raising in Orange county, Fla. With growing
knowledge and larger capital he concentrated his energies, in 1896,
in the cattle business, and in 1903 organized the East Coast Cattle
Company, of which he has since been the president. Mr. Rauler-
son is a thoroughly capable man in his line, who has worked himself
forward to a position of prominence in the community and is recog-
nized as one of the substantial men of St. Lucie county. He has
served his county as a Commissioner for one term and was for three
terms Chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Brevard
county before St. Lucie county was cut off from Brevard.
Mr. Raulerson has been twice married. First, to Miss Eliza-
beth Randolph, a daugher of Lucius and Isidore (Preston) Ran-
dolph. His second wife was a widow, Mrs. Effie Alderman,
who was the daughter of Eli O. and Lucy (Geiger) Morgan, of
Florida.
In politics Mr. Raulerson is identified with the Democratic
party and is a communicant of the Methodist Church. He is
associated with the Board of Trade of Fort Pierce, and is a live
member of a live organization in a live town, and unless all the signs
fail, Fort Pierce has before it an even larger future than its most
sanguine friends now anticipate. To that future Mr. Raulerson,
yet in the prime of life, will undoubtedly contribute his full share.
Upon questions of public importance affecting his State, Mr. Rauler-
son believes that the convict lease system should be abolished, that
the convicts should be worked on public roads and that the Ever-
glades should be drained. In this last opinion of his there seems
to be some differences even between intelligent men in Florida,
but to the impartial outsider it appears a very sound position. If
the 5,000,000 acres of extremely rich muck land now covered by the
Everglades could be brought under cultivation, the development of
that great acreage in sugar farms would yield enough sugar to
supply every pound of the millions of tons used by the United States
and would carry into Florida the one hundred millions of dollar^ we
now pay each year for the sugar imported from abroad.
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jfrank Cmanuel Cfjase
While every business enterprise demands a high degree of
energy, watchfulness and careful development before it shall have
reached a successful stage, yet much also depends on the environ-
ment selected as a basis for business operations. Many localities,
by reason of the position, are in many ways inaccessible thus neces-
sitating high railroad rates and often insufficient railroad connec-
tions while the character of citizens who compose a community are
often a powerful influence in determining business success. The
city of Jacksonville, Fla., is admirably adapted to a high class of
commercial enterprise. Geographically, it is centrally located
and is in direct rail communication not only with all portions of the
State, but with all parts of the country.
In addition it has water facilities which create a competition
in the transportation line and naturally gives better rate adjustments
for the merchants. Then, too, the people of Jacksonville are of a
high degree of cultivation. They are often natives of other parts
of the country where the development has most rapidly advanced
and their tastes and inclinations are, therefore, such as to require
certain conditions in their new home such as they left in the old.
This demand has naturally raised the standard of demand for manu-
factured articles and has served in a great measure to cultivate and
create needs which might not be so keenly felt by a less cosmopolitan
population. The people, however, who are natives of Florida have
had always the advantage of this wider contact, and it has served
to make the State the peer of any, even the most populous one in the
Union.
The mercantile life of Jacksonville can be statistically proven
to far excel in point of financial return, that of any other city of its
size in the South, and it is this growing commercial importance
which has attracted to the city men of progressive and aggressive
326 FRANK EMANUEL CHASE
business methods. That they have found here the very field for
which they sought and in so finding it have remained to reap the
rich harvest which waits only to be gathered is amply borne out by
the records of those who have selected the city as a place of per-
manent residence, and a point from which they may trade not only
with the surrounding country, but with all other parts of the South
as well.
Commercial enterprises which involve much capital and whose
output is of the very highest order are numerous in Jacksonville, and
one of those which has shown marked success in its management and
which owes its growing success to the intelligent guidance of its
President is the Cable Piano Company of which Frank Emanuel
Chase is the President. To many it might seem that the business
of managing a piano company would not differ in many particulars
from that of any other business enterprise, but this business is of so
exacting a character and it presupposes so large an outlay of capital
in its every transaction that it requires many years of careful train-
ing in this particular line to enable any man to reach success in this
field.
Mr. Chase comprises in himself many of the elements which
unite in creating for his business a certain high character and with
his years of training, his charming and cultivated personality, he
has proven not only an acquisition to the business world of Jack-
sonville, but to its social life as well. He has lived, as it w r ere, in a
sort of musical atmosphere, his father being a music teacher, and he
himself having never been engaged in any other business.
He was born in Columbus, Ga., December 9, 1866, his parents
being Geo. W. and Abie (Hoyt) Chase. He began his business life
in the tow r n where he was born, and at the early age of twenty, he
was a piano dealer of no mean proportions. In fact, so successful
was he in this business that he soon received an offer to act as
general agent for the largest house in Atlanta which he accepted
and in which capacity he served his employers with the utmost
satisfaction until he decided to become the Florida manager of the
famous Cable piano. This necessitated his moving to Jacksonville,
which he did in 1898, since which time his business has grown
steadily until it is today one of the leading music houses in the
entire State.
FRANK EMANUEL CHASE 327
Mr. Chase received his education in the public schools of Colum-
bus, Ga., and so well did he avail himself of what he learned there
and what he has since acquired in the world of men and of affairs
that he is one of the leaders in all prominent affairs in Jacksonville,
and is one of its most respected citizens. He believes that the best
interests of the State and of the nation can be best subserved by
applying honest business methods to their management, and he
declares that business success is won only by energy, hard work and
the closest attention to every detail combined with an unflagging
ambition to make his own enterprise the very best that could be had
under any and all circumstances. He is an ardent advocate of all
reform which tends toward the betterment of mankind, and he
daily practices his own theories in this particular. He believes that
one's fellowman can best be helped by the constant application of
common sense and strictest honesty to conditions as they confront
one day by day, and his own career is a striking illusration of this
ideal.
He is a man of broadest humanitarianism and he holds the position
of President of the Jacksonville Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, while he is also an influential member of the Jackson-
ville Board of Trade, and the Jacksonville Base Ball Association.
From these diverse positions it will be seen that Mr. Chase is a man
of varied and cultured tastes, progressive and enterprising as well
as an advocate of judicious sport. He is a Democrat in politics, and
a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and of
the Elk's Club of Jacksonville, but is affiliated with no church. He
is a man who has given considerable thought to civic affairs and,
especially to those relating most directly to the State of Florida and
the result of his observations is the belief that the State would be
materially helped by a system of good roads extending over it in
all directions and that it would also be improved by some small
reforms in the convict lease system, and by better educational facil-
ities.
Mr. Chase was married November 17, 1891, to Miss Jessie J.
Watt, a daughter of the postmaster of Columbus, T. J. Watt. They
have one child, a daughter, Bessie May Chase.
Cijomas Halter
Having made a splendid success of life by his own merits Mr.
T. W. Shands, of Gainesville, can afford to take pleasure in and be
proud of the excellent stock from which he comes.
Like so many good families in the South and West, the Shands
family goes back to Virginia as the American starting point. Just
when the first progenitor came to Virginia cannot be definitely
stated, though enough is known to make it certain that he was
among the early settlers. According to the family tradition he came
with his uncle, one Mr. Minge, who was secretary of the colony.
Later, the brothers, John and Joel Wingfield, of Sussex, married the
sisters Elizabeth and Sallie Shands. These Wingfields were de-
scendants of one of the very early colonial governors, and the sis-
ters were descendants of the first Shands.
In 1722 we get on solid ground, as on February 18, 1722, there
is recorded a patent from George II through Drysdale, then gover-
nor of the colony, under which 250 acres of land in Kent county is
deeded to William Shands. This William is said to have married
his wife Margaret about 1700, and the land above mentioned,
together with other lands, remained in the hands of his grand-
children until 1850.
The first William had four sons, William, John, and two whose
given names are unknown, but one of these unknown sons left a
widow, Elizabeth Shands. One of his daughters married Nathaniel
Mitchell, and is known to have had a son, John Mitchell. Another
daughter married a Stuart, and had a son, James Stuart. A third
daughter married a Golightly, and had a son named Shands Go-
lightly. The will of William Shands is dated January 4, 1759, and
was probated on August 17, 1759. The second William married
his wife Priscilla on November 9, 1738. They had children as
follows: Lucy, born January 9, 1740, Mary, born in 1742, Phoebe,
THOMAS WALTER SHANDS 331
born January 21, 1734, Augustin, born April 18, 1746, Amy born
September 8, 1749, Elizabeth, born February 14, 1751, Thomas,
born in 1753, William, born in 1755, William, born September 5,
1757. (It is probable that the first named W T illiam died in infancy
and the name was then passed on to the next and last child.) The
will of the second William Shands bears date of October 13, 1774,
and appointed his son Augustin as executor. Receipts given in
March andMay, 1777 show final receipts from heirs, given to Augus-
tin as Executor, in settlement of their shares of the estate.
Augustin was the eldest son of the second William. He was
born April 18, 1746, and on February 6, 17 70, married Amy Adkins,
who was born May i, 1748. They had children as follows: John,
born November 5, 1770; Thomas, born January 9, 1773; Priscilla,
born December 26, 1774; Elizabeth, born September i, 1777,
(died July 12, 1780), William, born September 2, 1783; Augustin,
born July 25, 1786; Lucy and Phoebe, born February 27, 1789,
(twins) .
Augustin's will bears the date of November 19, 1813. The
second Augustin was the fourth son and sixth child of the first
Augustin. He was born on July 25, 17 86, and came to Florida prob-
ably after the territory was acquired from Spain. On March 17,
1829, he was married to Sarah C. Glenn, by the Rev. John Jennings.
Of this marriage the following children were born: William Augus-
tin, born April 5, 1830, died September 3, 1875; John Fletcher,
born March 2, 1832, died June 28, 1856; Amy Elizabeth, born
December 21, 1833; Sarah Jane, born August 31, 1835, died April
10, 1840; Mary Arabella Glenn, born January 16, 1838; Thomas
Josiah, born November n, 1841; Martha Frances, born October 10,
1844, married a Jackson and died December 4, 1881.
In the various generations there were intermarriages with
many of the best families of the country. One of these deserves
mention. Lucy Shands, the oldest child of the second William,
born January, 1740, married William Rives and was the grand-
mother of certain distinguished Virginians of that name. One of
her grandsons, William C. Rives, was United States Senator from
Virginia, and twice Minister to France. He left sons and daughters
who are now prominent and wealthy residents of New York and
Boston.
332 THOMAS WALTER SHANDS
Alexander Rives, a brother of William C., was an able lawyer
and died while occupying the position of United States District
J udge in Virginia. Francis E. Rives served two terms in Congress,
from Virginia. Timothy Rives, who died during the Civil War,
was a distinguished lawyer and orator. The above were grand-
sons, and the great-grandchildren in the present generation are
notable people.
In every war from the Revolution down the Shands family have
been represented. In the Revolutionary generation a grandson of
the first William was one of the fiery Virginians who helped to expel
Governor Dunmore from Virginia; later he was captured by the
British and was stabbed by a drunken soldier of Cornwallis' army
for refusing to drink the health of King George.
William Rives who married Lucy Shands, was taken prisoner
by the British, carried to the West Indies, and kept there twelve
months. A son of this William Rives, married back into the Shands
family. In the War of 1812 Francis E. Rives and his brother-in-
law, Shands, were officers in the Virginia militia, and
stationed at Norfolk. In the Mexican War, Thomas Shands, a
brother of the 1812 militiaman, served as a soldier in the Virginia
regiment. In the Civil War the family had a large number of
representatives in the Confederate Army, and Mr. William B.
Shands, of Virginia, says that as near as he can estimate one-half
the able bodied members of the family, in both the male and female
lines, either fell on the battle-field, or died from disease contracted in
the service.
The Florida family began with the second Augustin. His oldest
child was William Augustin, who was born in South Carolina near
Spartanburg on April 5, 1830. William Augustin Shands was a
farmer, soldier and merchant. He married Sarah Jane Jackson,
and prior to the Civil War had become quite prominent in his sec-
tion. On July 4, 1860, he was commissioned Adjutant of the
Twelfth Regiment Florida Militia. May n, 1861, he was com-
missioned as Captain of Company No. 4, in the same regiment.
Later Captain Shands became a private in the Fifth Florida Regi-
ment, C. S. A., under Col. O. B. Lamar, and after long service was
promoted to Second-Lieutenant of Company "F," March 10,
THOMAS WALTER SHANDS 333
1864, as the old furlough paper preserved by his son shows, he had
never had a leave of absence, and as he was then down with scurvy,
he was furloughed for forty days. He never saw further active
service, for when he reported the surgeons pronounced him unfit
for duty, and he was detailed to recruiting service in Florida.
After the Civil War he moved to Bronson, Levy county. In
1859-1860 he had served as County Commissioner in Hamilton
county, and in Levy county he was pressed into the public service.
In the early seventies, he served as Justice of the Peace, County
Superintendent of Schools, County Surveyor, and was County Judge
at the time of his death. An upright, useful and most highly
esteemed citizen.
Thomas Walter Shands, of Gainesville, was born at White
Springs, Hamilton county, on July n, 1866. His parents were
Captain William Augustin and Sarah (Jackson) Shands. After
such preparatory training as the local schools of Bronson afforded,
he attended Emory College, at Oxford, Ga., but did not remain to
graduate. In 1885, then a mere youth, he engaged in mercantile
business at Bronson, in which he was successful from the start.
Later on he added the operating of turpentine farms, and in this line
he was also successful. In 1902 he moved to Gainesville as afford-
ing a better field. He conducted the mercantile business, at the
same time retaining his turpentine interests, until 1906, when he
sold out the mercantile interest and organized the Gainesville
National Bank, of which he was made president, and which position
he still retains. His interests have widened and diversified; he has
been uniformly successful and is now recognized as one of themost
capable and enterprising men in middle Florida. He is now
Vice-President of the Gulf Fertilizer Company (Tampa), President
of the Gainesville National Bank, Vice-President of the First
National Bank of Alachua, Director in the Bank of Biscayne Bay
(Miami), and the owner of a half dozen turpentine plants. In
addition to his private enterprises, he has been active in the public
service. While a resident of Levy county, he served as County
Commissioner for two years, and from 1889 to 1899, ten years, was
County Treasurer. Since moving to Gainesville, he has served as
President of the City Council.
334 THOMAS WAI.TKR SHANDS
In 1886 he married Miss Corris Annie Parker, of Bronson.
They have six children, as follows: James S., William Auguslin,
Jr., Joseph Walter, Alvin Glenn, Corris and Velma Shands.
In politics Mr. Shands is a Democrat. Like his father before
him, he is a communicant of the Methodist Church. In fraternal
circles he is affiliated with the Masons, the Shriners, and the Elks.
Like many busy men Mr. Shands has been compelled to confine his
reading to current periodicals, and he thinks they can be of great
benefit to thoughtful readers.
Mr. Shands had three brothers, Joseph Fletcher, Alvin Turner,
and William Augustin, all of whom have passed away, leaving of
his immediate family only his sister Leila, now Mrs. Glenn Coursey,
of Tampa, and himself. Dr. J. M. Jackson, of Miami, is a double
first cousin.
Yet a comparatively young man, he has achieved a notable
success by hard work, good judgment and strict integrity. His
good qualities have won for him a large measure of personal popu-
larity, which is most desirable, when as in this case it comes spon-
taneously and not as a result of political arts. He comes of genera-
tions who were good citizens in peace and good soldiers in war. In
his hands the family name has suffered no loss, but has gained added
luster. He is of that highest of all American types the good
citizen.
'Ce/U/t-/
Barnall
Thrown upon his own resources at the early age of fifteen
years, Marcy B. Darnall has been printer, soldier, musician and
editor, filing each station with credit to himself and taking up a new
line only where his own best interests were thereby served. His
unremitting devotion to whatever work he was engaged in and in-
herent belief that only "by learning the business" could success be
attained did much to smooth the pathway, and prepare him for
grasping and handling opportunity when it became his so that it
was an easy transition from bandmaster in the army to business
manager of a daily newspaper. It was no unfamiliar field upon
which he entered, nor was his natural ability to adapt himself to
conditions as he found them his greatest help. That lay in his
preparedness acquired by reason of his devotion to his work in
former years. As business manager of The Key West Citizen he
seems to have "found his stride" as he has met with gratifying
success and has plans full of promise for the future.
Mr. Darnall is a native of Illinois, having been born at Edgar,
in that State, January 27, 1872. His parents were A. D. Darnall, a
lawyer, and Arietta Bradshaw Darnall. His mother died when he
was only five years of age and he was raised by her parents, attend-
ing the public schools at Edgar, 111., and Union Star, Mo., and the
normal school at Stanberry, Mo. He left the latter when fifteen
years of age and the greater part of his education has since been
obtained in the school of experience. He served as a printer's
apprentice for two years, interrupted by one year's experience as
clerk in a store at Union Star, Mo. During this time he became
interested in music, which fact played an important part in his sub-
sequent career, and became connected with a local band. He
joined Typographical Union No. 40 at St. Joseph, Mo., in 1890,
and worked on the News and the Gazette, daily newspapers, fre-
338 MARCY BRADSHAW DARNALL
quently playing in local bands until February 27, 1892, when he
joined the Seventh U. S. Cavalry Band at Fort Riley, Kan. He
studied music during his threeyears' term of service and a portion of
the time was regimental printer. Upon his discharge he returned to
Missouri and for several months was engaged in giving instruction
to bands and to private music pupils, but with a view to continuing
his own musical studies joined the Twentieth U. S. Infantry Band
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He went to Cuba with this regiment in
General Shafter's army, which left Tampa June 14, 1898. Request-
ing service in the ranks he was assigned to a company, with which
he participated in the fight at El Caney, July i,and was afterwards
among those sent to assist in holding San Juan Hill where they
remained, frequently engaged in fighting until the surrender of
Santiago de Cuba, on July 17, 1898. On this date, by a coincidence
his term of enlistment expired and he started for home, having for
several days previously suffered from chills and fever. Returning
to St. Joseph, Mo., he divided his time between teaching music and
printing, also doing considerable writing for musical journals
including The Dominant of New York, of which he was for several
years the associate editor. He was also Vice-President of the
Musicians Union of St. Joseph and represented that organization
at the State Convention of the Missouri Federation of Labor at
Jefferson City and again in the National Convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Musicians at Denver, Col., in May, 1901. He
was appointed chief musician or bandmaster in the regular army
June 1 8, 1901, and assigned to the duty of organizing the newly
authorized Ninth Artillery Band at Fort Riley, Kan. While leader
of this band he also edited the Fort Riley Guidon, a weekly paper
devoted to the interests of the Garrison, at the same time continuing
his writing for various musical journals. His band was ordered to
the Key West, Fla., barracks for duty and made the change of
stations in July, 1904. In November, 1905, he secured control of
The Key West Citizen, a weekly newspaper, which he conducted with
his wife's assistance, for a year, and retained his army position. In
November, 1906, a consolidation was effected with The Daily Inter-
Ocean, and he resigned his position as bandmaster in the army to
become business manager of the consolidated enterprise, which was
MARCY BRADSHAW DARNALL 339
incorporated as The Citizen Publishing Company, the paper retain-
ing the name of The Key West Citizen. Under Mr. DarnalP s manage-
ment, with the assistance of his wife as circulation manager, the
circulation of The Citizen has been increased nearly 100 per cent,
the size of the paper has been doubled and the gross receipts have