Hij is getrouwd met Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 september 1883, hij was toen 30 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Burial:
Buried in Miami City Cemetery, Miami, Dade, Florida.
General Notes:
Found on Ancestry.com, and noted gratefully here this day...
6/23/12
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Gazzam and Frederick Families
Brief Biography of Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam (1862-1922) and John Stanley Frederick
(1853-1910) BY: Renea Lynn Adams Fialkowsky great great granddaughter
Antoinette Elizabeth Gazzam Frederick was born Sep 27, 1862 to Audley William
Gazzam and Mary Elizabeth VanDeusen. Audley was a Major in the Civil War in the
103rd Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry.
Audley's brother, Joseph Murphy Gazzam, was a very prominent individual in Pittsburgh,
PA. He was an attorney and involved with many political offices. The city of Gazzam, PA
was named for Joseph.
Antoinette married John Stanley Frederick in 1883. John had studied law and passed the
Philladelphia Bar then practiced law in Philladelphia. His health became such that he was
advised to live in the South. In 1892, leaving mine developement in Cartersville, GA,
Antoinette and John came to Coconut Grove, FL to find out how true the rumors of a
prosperous land were. Their children followed them later by sailboat. John soon became a
real estate broker in Coconut Grove, FL. In 1895, after hearing a civil engineer was
needed in Miami, FL, the family moved to Miami and pitched a tent in the Ft Dallas Park
where they lived until enough lumber was delivered from Jacksonville, FL to build a
house. In January 1896 John assisted A. L. Knowlton in dividing the town site of Miami
into blocks and lots. John then became involved with the Everglades drainage project.
Also working with the drainage project were two of John and Antoinette's sons, Edwin
and Thomas. John served as City Councilman, founded the Biscayne Engineering
Company, and from 1904-1908 was assistant Clerk of Circuit Court. But he was best
known as County Engineer.
Antoinette was a member of The Miami Women's Club from it's beginning in 1900. She
was one of the 21 pioneers listed in the Yearbook of Founder Members who began
purchasing books which in turn became the first library. Antoinette was President of the
Miami Women's Club from 1903 - 1909. In 1910 the club was honored by the Florida
Federation of Women's Clubs by electing Antoinette as President. She held this position
for 10 years. Antoinette also served a term as President of The Housekeepers Club (now
the Coconut Grove Women's Club) and was a charter member of Trinity Episcopal
Church. Antoinette served as Librarian for the Women's Club from the time of John's
death in 1910 until 1916. John contracted pleurisy during one of his surveying trips into
the Everglades.
In 1916 Antoinette moved to Moore Haven, FL to make a home for her sons, who were
then surveying that area. Soon after her arrival in Moore Haven, she set up a lending
library in her home to help begin building the community.
In 1922 during a visit to her daughter in Daytona, FL Antoinette suffered a stroke and
passed away June 13. John and Antoinette are buried in the Miami City Cemetery, Miami,
FL in the family plot along with John's parents, Thomas and Martha (Gilbert) Frederick
and their son and his wife, Thomas and Ruth (LaMarr) Frederick. Thomas the father was
one of the first burials in the cemetery in 1897.
Sources:
Letter from the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, written by Alice Frederick Brady,
daughter of John and Antoinette Frederick.
Woman's Who's Who of America.
Linda_Newbroughadded this on 23 Jun 2012
rachelkacprzykharveyoriginally submitted this to Gazzam and other families (Tree by
Rachel Kacprzyk Harvey) on 13 Jul 2011
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