Henry Flagler was a co-founder of Standard Oil, the “father” of Miami and Palm Beach plus a major benefactor for St. Augustine. In 1889, while building the Ponce de León Hotel (now Flagler College), his daughter Jennie Louise died during childbirth. The tragic event became the impetuous for creating the Memorial Presbyterian Church. The Venetian Renaissance design resembles St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice. When Henry Flagler died in 1913, he was interred in a mausoleum beside his daughter and first wife.
