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History of the Gress and Stephens families
Morgan Valentine Gress eloped with Eugenia Stephens; their daughters are Alix and Gretchen; Alix daughter is Abigail Morgan Hundley
Morgan and Eugenia founded a lumber city in southern Georgia near the Okefenokee Swamp and ran the mill unitl the Jacksonville Great Fire of 1901. They moved to Jacksonville to help with the rebuilding of the city. Morgan became instrumental in starting various charities including the Community Chest, WWI and WWII bonds as well as helping the Daughters of Charity to start St. Vincent's Hospital. They purchased a house at 860 Riverside Avenue. John Hartridge lived next door and Colonel Kay across the street. Social life was led by the Hartridges, L'Engles, Barnetts, Bakers, Porters, Taliaferros, Hubbards, Holmes, Flemings. Members of the Seminole Club included Dexter Hunter, Joseph Durkee, Walter Coachman, Blair Burwell, C. B. Rogers, Robert Gamble John Baker and George Hardee. Family trips and the beginning of the Timuquana Country Club are documented.Collection
Morgan V. Gress CollectionLexicon
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