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Major Alexander St. Clair-Abrams : The Unparalled career of the perfect Southern gentlemanEntry/Object ID
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448 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Major Alexander St. Clair-Abrams : The Unparalleled career of the perfect Southern gentleman by Bob Grenier.
Contents: Signed "one of the Garrison" -- Siege of Vicksburg / A.S. Abrams -- Heralded in New York -- Return to the gate city of the South -- Gone to Florida to edit an orange grove -- Building Florida's new capital -- Land of 1400 lakes -- Fury, fire, and farewell (Great Fire of 1901; hired Louise Rebecca Pinnell, Florida's first woman lawyer) -- Epilogue -- Trails of the soldiers' wife by Abrams -- Bibliography -- Index.
Connections to Jacksonville: In 1895 St. Clair-Abrams moved to Jacksonville. -- By 1897, he successfully defended Edward Pitzer in the murder trial of Louise Gato in dramatic fashion (he fainted while making his concluding statement). http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/fl/St.Clair-Abrams.html -- His home was built in 1914, designed by Henry John Klutho, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Abrams wife died in Atlanta in late 1901, her remains were dispatched to Jacksonville .( A Magnificent Memorial, Atlanta Constitution, May 13, 1902, p.12) where he built a family mausoleum in the St. Mary’s section of Evergreen Cemetery that was designed by Klutho in 1901. In 1914, he argued before the United States Supreme Court in Florida East Coast R. CO. v. U S, 234 U.S. 167. In 1928, he described himself in a letter to the Constitution as "84 years of age, feeble and crippled, but with my mental faculties unimpaired". He died in Jacksonville in 1931 at the age of 86.Ghosts of the Cigar Princess and the Forgotten Detective
Jax Examiner: October 30, 2021AuthorDave Burkey: Marie Louise Gato was the 19-year-old daughter of Jacksonville cigar factory owner Gabriel Hidalgo Gato . At the time of her death Jacksonville was home to 15 cigar manufacturing companies, her father’s company, Modelo Cigar Manufacturing, was the largest. She was shot five times as she was entering her father’s home near Laura and 11th Streets, in the Springfield area on April 20, 1897. Her father had arrived home via carriage and was at the back gate when he heard a disturbance. He rushed inside to find his daughter on the floor, bleeding out from multiple gunshot wounds. She died hours later but not before making a deathbed declaration that her friend, Eddie Pitzer, had killed her. She described him as a friend. He considered himself to be her fiancé, but had recently discovered there were two other men who also considered themselves to be her fiancé. That left some to speculate that the 6th bullet had been meant for himself, but her father arrived before he could follow through and he ran away.Collection
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Abrams, Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair)., Gato, Marie Louise., Lawyers -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography.Publication Details
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Grenier, Bob, 1958-Publisher
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F 319 .J1 G74 2022ISBN
9780974662640