Where Was Henry Plant Born

Henry B. Plant

Portrait of Henry B. Plant; source: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory Henry Bradley Constitute worked in the mid-1800s in the express delivery business, starting in the north and afterwards relocating to Georgia. During the Ceremonious State of war, his company Southern Express worked under contract for the Confederacy just he left during the state of war and he spent two years traveling in the Caribbean, Europe and Canada. Plant returned after the state of war in 1865 to keep managing Southern Express and other business interests. In the tardily 1870s and early 1880s, Establish began to purchase and develop railway companies in order to build a system forth the southern Atlantic seaboard. As well in the 1880s, he began acquiring and creating steamboat lines and hotels in cities served by both his rails and steamer lines. With support from northern investors such as Henry Flagler, he formed the Plant Investment Company in 1882 to aggrandize his Plant System. In a bridge of x years he acquired the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway; the Charleston and Savannah Railway; and the South Florida Railroad, among other lines. In 1892, he acquired the Florida Southern Railway. In 1902, a few years after Plant's death, the unabridged Plant Organization was acquired past the Atlantic Declension Line Railroad.

The Expedition was backed by Henry Plant, and the idea for the exploration trip was developed at a meeting with Plant in Tampa. James E. Ingraham was President of Sanford'due south Southward Florida Railroad, which had been acquired in 1884 past Found. Throughout the Expedition Ingraham sent telegrams to Constitute with updates on their progress, and upon his return he reported to Plant that South Florida should be developed. Plant decided not to pursue the development of South Florida, and Ingraham soon went to work for Henry Flagler's Florida Due east Coast Railway and Model Land Company, who did develop southward along the Atlantic Declension.

Birth: Oct 27, 1819, Branford, Connecticut
Death: June 23, 1899

Credits:

Portrait of Henry B. Plant, Country Archives of Florida, Florida Retentivity

Sources:

Henry B. Plant Museum
"Henry B. Constitute," Wikipedia.org

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1892 Everglades Exploration Trek : Three Digital Texts, 2015