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Beautifully engraved certificate from the S.D. Warfield Company issued in 1892. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a man's arm holding a hammer. This item is hand signed by the Company's President ( S. Davies Warfield ) and Treasurer and is over 111 years old.
Certificate Vignette Solomon Davies Warfield was born on 4 Sep 1859 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., MD. History of Indiantown, Florida and Seminole Inn It’s only thirty miles northwest of Palm Beach, but in spirit and setting it’s light years away, a one - street town in the heart of citrus and cattle country. Settled by the Seminole Indians early in the nineteenth century, the dry lands of the area they found ideal for hunting and camping are just fourteen miles south of the site of the last battle of the Seminole War, the last major Indian engagement east of the Mississippi. White settlers followed in the 1890’s and during World War I the Corps of Engineers dug the St. Lucie Canal running from Lake Okeechobee through the town to the east coast; but it was not until the arrival of Baltimore banker S. Davies Warfield in the 1920’s that Indiantown was put on the map. Warfield planned to make Indiantown the southern headquarters of his Seaboard Airline Railroad (now known as Seaboard Coastline), then stretching from Central Florida to West Palm Beach. He planned a model city. He laid out streets, built a school, constructed houses, and a railroad station. Of course he also built the Seminole Inn, which he envisioned as a focal point for his newly created community. Wallis Warfield, his niece, who was later to become the Duchess of Windsor, was there for the gala opening of the Inn, and, according to local lore later visited the Inn several times. S. Davies Warfield became president of the Seaboard Air Lines System the third largest railway builder where he built more than 500 miles of new trackage for Seaboard. S. Davies Warfield, of Baltimore, Md. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1912. Two females, on changing their names, were incidental in bringing down the British Empire. The President Warfield was named after Solomon Davies Warfield, owner of the Baltimore Steam Packet Company. The ship, on changing her name to Exodus 1947, became a symbol that shook the British empire. Warfield's niece Bessie Wallis Warfield (Mrs Wallis) shook the British empire to its foundations when she married Edward VIII of England. He abdicated his throne
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