Stuart Betts McIver (December 25, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was a historian and author of 14 books as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Much of his written work related to Florida including ''Touched by the Sun (Florida Chronicles)'' and ''Death in the Everglades'' about the murder of conservation pioneer

Guy Bradley Guy Morrell Bradley (April 25, 1870 – July 8, 1905) was an American game warden and deputy sheriff for Monroe County, Florida. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he relocated to Florida with his family when he was young. As a boy, he often ...

. He was also a scriptwriter and director of

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s. He appeared as himself in ''

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'', Season 1, Episode 12 "Ft. Lauderdale: Sin in the Sun". He served six years on the board of the Broward County Historical Commission. Stuart B. McIver obituary
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'' McIver was born on December 25, 1921, in

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, where his father was a country doctor. He studied journalism at the

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and started his career writing for newspapers at '' The Greensboro Daily News'', '' Charlotte News'' and ''

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''. He wrote for ''Gold Coast'', ''Florida Sportsman'', ''Boca Raton'', and ''South Florida'' magazines. He received awards from the

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, Florida Historical Confederation, Broward County Historical Commission and Fort Lauderdale Historical Society. He served as editor of the Historical Association of Southern Florida and the Caribbean's ''South Florida History Magazine''.Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags line notes Pineapple Press

Personal life

He met his wife at the Sun in 1948. The couple moved from

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in 1962, and later to

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in 1969. At the ''Sun Sentinel'' he wrote a Sunday column titled "The Way We Were" for 15 years. McIver was fond of the

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where he hiked, canoed and camped.

Bibliography

* ''Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism''. Gainesville, FL:

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, 2003. . *''Touched by the Sun'' 3 Volumes (2001) * William J. Ridings, Jr., and Stuart B. McIver
''Rating the Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. leaders, from the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent''
(2000, ) * (19 September 1993)
"1926 Miami: The blow that broke the boom"

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. Retrieved 21 June 2008. * ''Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags''. Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press Inc., (1998. ) (1994. ) * ''Hemingway's Key West'' * ''One Hundred Years on Biscayne Bay''. Coconut Grove, FL: Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, 1987. * ''Yesterday's Palm Beach'', E. A. Seemann, Miami (1976) part of the Seemann's Historic Cities Series *''The Book Lover's Guide to Florida'', co-author (1992) *''Glimpses of South Florida History'' (1988) *''Coral Springs; The first twenty-five years (1988) Fort Lauderdale and Broward County

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* archived 2009-06-19 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mciver, Stuart 1921 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American male journalists 20th-century American journalists American magazine writers Writers from North Carolina People from Sanford, North Carolina 20th-century American male writers University of North Carolina alumni