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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Lake City’s Governor

Frederick Preston Cone, Florida’s twenty-seventh Governor (1937-41),

was bom at Benton on September 28, 1871, the son of William H. and
Sarah Emily (Branch) Cone.

He attended Florida Agricultural College and Jasper Normal College,
and was admitted to the bar in 1892, practicing at Lake City.

He served in the State Senate 1907-13, and was President in 1911.

He also was a banker. After serving as Governor, he returned to Lake

City, where he died July 28,1948.

Columbia Comity and Lake City, Florida Circa 1908

Lake City, the county seat of Columbia County, has a population of

5,032, and is a delightful residential town, enterprising and progressive.
It offers excellent locations and opportunities for manufactures, with

perfect transportation facilities.

Soils, light and gray and sandy loams, with generally clay subsoil, and

some muck land surrounds it.

Many colonists from the North have located in this immediate region.

Lake City has an ice factory, turpentine retort, saw mill, cigar factory,

wholesale grocer, light and water plants, Columbia College, seven
churches, high and graded school, fine hotel, paved streets, three

railroads, seven miles of concrete sidewalks and two newspapers.

*(Taken From: A Land for Settlers, a booklet by the Georgia Southern &

Florida Railway)*

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