Tag: 1920’s

My name is Pano John Camichos. I was born in Orlando on March 3, 1933. My name as it appears on the birth certificate is PANOYOTIS. However, I think because of the accents of my father at the time I was born it should have been PANAGIOTIS. I was born an ... Read more

My name is William P. Hayman, Jr. and I was born in Winter Haven, Florida, August 4, 1923. My father at this time was engaged in the fertilizer business, selling fertilizer to the citrus groves... Read the Oral history of Col. William P. Hayman, Jr. DVM ... Read more

Viola and her husband, real estate salesman Charles Francis Fosgate moved to Orlando from Boston in 1919 along with the other Fosgate brothers, Chester Crawford Fosgate (citrus grower) and Stanley P. Fosgate, drawn  here by their father, Leo E. Fosgate . ... Read more

Charlie Finley was well known around town for the family's paint and wallpaper business but he also had a small cattle business on the side and was an avid hunter.   In the late 1930s he served the state of Florida as a Game Warden ("for 11 years") and ... Read more

Listen to this interview with Catherine Buning Steiger  recorded  at the "Sneak Preview" for Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando, November 13th, 2010. Catherine Buning was born in Orlando in 1957, the sixth child in a family of eight children. ... Read more