Jacob Brock (July 5, 1810 – September 22, 1876) was a prominent steamboat captain and a pioneer in the early establishment of
Enterprise, Florida
Enterprise is an unincorporated community in Volusia County, in the U.S. state of Florida, and its former county seat. Situated on the northern shore of Lake Monroe, it is flanked by the cities of DeBary and Deltona. Enterprise was once ...
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Early life
Jacob Brock was born in
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...
on July 5, 1811.
He was the third of twelve children born to Jacob Brock and Abigail Sanders.
Florida
In 1853, Brock bought a steamship that he named the ''Darlington''. In 1860, he built a second steamboat which he named the ''Hattie'' after one of his daughters.
References
1811 births
1876 deaths
Steamship captains
Businesspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
19th-century American businesspeople
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