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                                                                       Chapter Thirteen: 1930 - 1939


                                                                      Frederick Preston Cone,
                                                                       (1871 – 1948) the 27th
                                                                     governor of the state (1937

                                                                        – 1941), was born at
                                                                        Benton in Columbia
                                                                      County on September 28,
                                                                      1871, the son of William
                                                                        H. and Sarah Emily
                                                                        (Branch) Cone. He
                                                                          attended Florida
                                                                      Agricultural College and
                                                                      Jasper Normal College,
                                                                     was admitted to the bar in
                                                                       1892, and practiced in
                                         Governor Cone                Lake City. He served as a
                                                                       State Senator (1907 –
                                   1913) and Senate President (1911), was defeated for the U.S.

                                      Senate (1940), and returned to Lake City, where he died
                                                        on July 28, 1948.




                                               Other local people in the 1930s

                                         Attorney Bill Roy (CHS 1939) is a member of the United
                                 States “Space Walk of Fame” Foundation “for his substantial
                                 contributions to honor the men and women who made the U.S. Space
                                 Program possible and to preserve the program’s history for generations
                                 to come.”

                                         Dena Snodgrass, who taught at CHS in the 1930s, moved
                                 to Jacksonville and became a well-known historian of Duval County
                                 and Florida history.



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