Francis A. "Frank" Walpole. University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Portrait of Francis A. "Frank" Walpole, Mayor of Palmetto and the "red headed editor of the Palmetto News" and, after 1904, editor of the Manatee Record. He was a Mason, a founding member of the Board of Trade, secretary of the Democratic Party's Executive Committee by 1906 and Decocratic Chairman in 1910. His Palmetto paper did all the school printing for the county, which by 1904 involved a bill for $250. That year his Manatee Record began printing with electric power. He married Ruby Hart of Tampa in 1897. He was editing the newspaper by 1898. Over the years the family lived in Manatee, Palmetto, Tampa and Alabama. He owned part of the Bradetown Drug Company in 1907 and that same year helped found the local branch of the Florida Press Association. He became the Press Association's secretary as well as Manatee County's Treasurer in 1908. That didn't stop him from continuing to edit the Manatee Record in 1908-1909. He led the Good Roads movement with support from other local papers and the Board of Trade. Walpole purchased the Artesian Bottling Works in 1911 and that year added the Women's Christian Temperance Union (the W.C.T.U.) to his list of associations. Portrait of Francis A. "Frank" Walpole, Mayor of Palmetto and the "red headed editor of the Palmetto News" and, after 1904, editor of the Manatee Record. He was a Mason, a founding member of the Board of Trade, secretary of the Democratic Party's Executive Committee by 1906 and Decocratic Chairman in 1910. His Palmetto paper did all the school printing for the county, which by 1904 involved a bill for $250. That year his Manatee Record began printing with electric power. He married Ruby Hart of Tampa in 1897. He was editing the newspaper by 1898. Over the years the family lived in Manatee, Palmetto, Tampa and Alabama. He owned part of the Bradetown Drug Company in 1907 and that same year helped found the local branch of the Florida Press Association. He became the Press Association's secretary as well as Manatee County's Treasurer in 1908. That didn't stop him from continuing to edit the Manatee Record in 1908-1909. He led the Good Roads movement with support from other local papers and the Board of Trade. Walpole purchased the Artesian Bottling Works in 1911 and that year added the Women's Christian Temperance Union (the W.C.T.U.) to his list of associations. United States Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Francis A. "Frank" Walpole.
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Portrait of Francis A. "Frank" Walpole, Mayor of Palmetto and the "red headed editor of the Palmetto News" and, after 1904, editor of the Manatee Record. He was a Mason, a founding member of the Board of Trade, secretary of the Democratic Party's Executive Committee by 1906 and Decocratic Chairman in 1910. His Palmetto paper did all the school printing for the county, which by 1904 involved a bill for $250. That year his Manatee Record began printing with electric power. He married Ruby Hart of Tampa in 1897. He was editing the newspaper by 1898. Over the years the family lived in Manatee, Palmetto, Tampa and Alabama. He owned part of the Bradetown Drug Company in 1907 and that same year helped found the local branch of the Florida Press Association. He became the Press Association's secretary as well as Manatee County's Treasurer in 1908. That didn't stop him from continuing to edit the Manatee Record in 1908-1909. He led the Good Roads movement with support from other local papers and the Board of Trade. Walpole purchased the Artesian Bottling Works in 1911 and that year added the Women's Christian Temperance Union (the W.C.T.U.) to his list of associations.
Portrait of Francis A. "Frank" Walpole, Mayor of Palmetto and the "red headed editor of the Palmetto News" and, after 1904, editor of the Manatee Record. He was a Mason, a founding member of the Board of Trade, secretary of the Democratic Party's Executive Committee by 1906 and Decocratic Chairman in 1910. His Palmetto paper did all the school printing for the county, which by 1904 involved a bill for $250. That year his Manatee Record began printing with electric power. He married Ruby Hart of Tampa in 1897. He was editing the newspaper by 1898. Over the years the family lived in Manatee, Palmetto, Tampa and Alabama. He owned part of the Bradetown Drug Company in 1907 and that same year helped found the local branch of the Florida Press Association. He became the Press Association's secretary as well as Manatee County's Treasurer in 1908. That didn't stop him from continuing to edit the Manatee Record in 1908-1909. He led the Good Roads movement with support from other local papers and the Board of Trade. Walpole purchased the Artesian Bottling Works in 1911 and that year added the Women's Christian Temperance Union (the W.C.T.U.) to his list of associations.
United States
Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto
Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection