Owen Preston Woodcock
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"Owen Preston Woodcock was the founder and president of the O.P. Woodcock Co., general contractors, the oldest contracting firm in Florida and one of the oldest in the Southeast United States. ...
"A native of Wilmington, NC, Mr. Woodcock came to Jacksonville several years before the turn of the century, and began his own business in Jacksonville in 1897.
"He was a trustee of the Christopher Pointe Co. and has extensive real estate holdings in Jacksonville, FL.
"Mr. Woodcock was associated in the development of Neptune Beach, Riverside, Murray Hill, Miramar Terrace, San Jose" and other neighborhood around the Jacksonville area.
"His company constructed hundreds of schools, stores, hospitals, warehouses, hotels and office buildings. Some of the structures his company erected were the Professional Building, the Clark Building, the Florida National Bank building, the concrete portion of the Gator Bowl, Railway Express terminals, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, the Negro Masonic Temple, Brewster Hospital Duval County Hospital, Marine Hospital at Key West, Jacksonville Journal building, Coquina Hotel at Ormond Beach, and the Lyceum and Convent at St. Augustine." Along with his company's most recent projects of the "new plant of the Children's Home Society, the new YWCA building, and the new WMBR-TV station, in addition to numerous school and commercial buildings.
"Mr. Woodcock was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Board of the YWCA and the North Florida Council, Boy Scouts of America, and had been chairman of the Boy Scouts camping committee for about 30 years. Several years ago he was given the Silver Beaver Scout award for outstanding service to Scouting.
"Mr. Woodcock was a past president of the Jacksonville Lions Club, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Civitan Club, and the San Jose Country Club."
Taken from his obituary published in the January 4th, 1953 edition of the Florida-Times Union.
