A Social Event of Mary E. Brown

In one of Mary Brown's journal entries, there was an entry found that described a day when she and Mary McClure were both invited by Colonel Franklin Fairbanks to have dinner with him at the Seminole Hotel. This was such a significant event because Colonel Franklin Fairbanks was a well-known man who first entered his family business when he was 18. He had a lot of money and he was one of the first trustees of Rollins College. The interesting part of this journal entry was that Mary Brown and Mary McClure declined this invitation. There was no mention of why they could not attend.