People of Interest

Brooksville and Hernando have a number of individuals or families who influenced the growth of the area.  Here is some information about them.

• David Levy Yulee 

• The  William Hope Family

• The John Joseph Hale Family

• The Howell Family

• The John L May Family

• The Frank Elmore Saxon Family

• The John Parsons Family

• The Lykes Family

• Minister Arthur St Clair - Brooksvillian

The 1800s also produces individuals that effected everybody

• Hamilton Disston - an industrialist and real-estate developer

• William D Chipley - Florida Panhandle developer

• Peter Cooper & the Tom Thumb - Builder of the 1st American Steam Engine

• Samuel F. B. Morse - Inventor of the Morse Code

  • Morse Code

  • What Does SOS mean

  • Glass Telegraph Insulators

  • Morse's Paintings 

• Henry Plant - a businessman, entrepreneur, and investor

• Henry Flagler - founder of the Florida East Coast Railway

• George Pullman - Builder of the First Sleeping Car

• Richard Trevithick - Builder of the First Steam Engine

• Mary Florence Potts Inventor of the SAD Iron

• Casey Jones - an American Railroader

• Uncle Sam (Wilson)