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Edwin H. Tomlinson
Edwin Hyde Tomlinson (1844 – December 6, 1938) was a world traveler, and an early benefactor of St. Petersburg, Florida in the United States, best known for his many gifts to the city and its inhabitants. Tomlinson built the city’s first brick school, constructed a 2,500-seat auditorium, donated the land for the first electrical plant, constructed St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, and helped develop the city’s first hospital and open-air post office. His most well known attraction in St. Petersburg was the Fountain of Youth.
==Early life==
Edwin H. Tomlinson was born in Connecticut in 1844 to Peter Tomlinson and Augusta Tomlinson. After finishing public school, Tomlinson became a bank teller earning $4.00 a month at the age of 18 years.〔 He went on to serve in the Union Army during the Civil War.〔 After the Civil War, Tomlinson started work in the oil fields of Pennsylvania and then continued south to South Carolina to help open the South’s first tourist hotel.〔 Tomlinson went on to make his fortune in the mining and oil business between 1874 and 1897.〔 It was during this time that he first visited St. Petersburg when the town only had about 1,575 residents, as a ''snowbird''.
In 1896, at the age of fifty-two,〔 Tomlinson made the move to St. Petersburg, Florida, and began investing his time, money and efforts to the City of St. Petersburg.
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