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Clarence H. Geist
Clarence Henry Geist (1866 – June 12, 1938) was an American financier who played an important role in the early history of Boca Raton, Florida.
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Biography
Clarence Geist was born and raised on a farm in LaPorte County, Indiana. When he was 18 he left Indiana and spent five years in the far West working in cattle ranching, but returned East when he realized he "could not make money where there wasn't any".
He settled in Blue Island, Illinois[1] and worked for a year on the Rock Island Railroad as a conductor, and subsequent to that entered the real estate business [2] and served as president of the Cottage Building and Loan in Blue Island.[3] Geist then set himself up as a natural gas distributor, where he supplied gas to Blue Island, Morgan Park, then a suburb of Chicago, and Illinois suburbs south of Blue Island that included Harvey and Chicago Heights.[4]
His wife was Florence Hewitt Geist.[5] Although h