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| Stranahan House 1901 (replaced the original trading post) State Archives of Florida |
Fort Lauderdale pioneer and trading post owner, Frank Stranahan (1865-1929) met Ivy Julia Cromartie, (1881-1971), a young teacher who had moved to his area from Lemon City (where Little Haiti is in Miami today) in 1899.
In an excerpt from a letter Frank wrote to Ivy (www.iamlasolas.com/pioneer-women-of-the-boulevard/) about their pending marriage in August 1900, it was more business than romance.
Wish to ask you a question that I should have done a few days ago. I am getting the license. How do you wish your name to appear in it and age? I will see you Wednesday. This is the last letter that we will write to each other so will close with the last girl I kissed goodnight.
Frank
P.S. This has been written in a rush. Overlook the grammar.
Ivy served as the town's first teacher and contributed to the lives of local Seminoles through her foundation, Friends of the Seminoles.
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Frank Stranahan, born 1865, died by suicide in 1929:
Sources:
http://www.iamlasolas.com/pioneer-women-of-the-boulevard/
Florida International University, Historical Museum of Southern Florida
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