Henry Flagler

Henry Morrison Flagler ( January 2, 1830 in Hopewell, New York, † May 20, 1913 in West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American oil magnate and railroad pioneer, owner of a railway company and builder of the railway line on Florida's East Coast ( Florida East Coast railway), which he endowed with generous railway hotels, for example, in St. Augustine, Florida (Hotel Ponce de Leon, now Flagler College) or the Breakers Hotel ( Palm Beach, Florida). So Flagler created the traffic even base for the development of tourism infrastructure in lockstep with this themselves and thus evaluated its cheap acquired land on.

However, the basis of Flagler's wealth lay in the mining industry. These funds he brought into the Standard Oil Company. 57f. He was next to John D. Rockefeller, his brother William Rockefeller, Samuel Andrew and Stephen V. Harkness one of the five founding shareholders: Appendix 2 Flagler's involvement in the tourist development of the east coast of Florida began in 1885 - about the same time as the similar activities supported by Henry Bradley. Plant on the west coast.