Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) was an American industrialist. He founded Standard Oil, the Florida East Coast Railway and the Florida cities of Miami and Palm Beach. Flagler was a major figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida.Flagler T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D38MTPV1
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Nat Love
Nat Love (1854-1921) was a slave born on Robert Love’s Tennessee plantation. After the civil war ended and the slaves were freed his parents became sharecroppers. His father Sampson died shortly after and Nat took a job at a local farm to help breaking horses. Westward Eventually Nat traveled to Dodge City, Kansas where he …