LEGAL COMMUNITY
SPOTLIGHT
LEGAL PROFILE
This 1910 photo of the old St. Lucie County Courthouse, which has since been demolished, hangs in the
Fee law firm.
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Along with banking and law, the
Fee family had interests in both the
hardware and mortuary businesses.
Frank H. Fee ran the bank, but he
also moved a hardware store from
Melbourne to Fort Pierce.
“The Fee Hardware store opened
in Fort Pierce about the same time
that East Coast Lumber did,” says
Speedy as he pulls from behind
his desk an old yardstick bearing
the Fee Hardware logo. “The
railroad was moving down this
way, so there was a lot of construction.”
Back then, hardware stores
also sold caskets. As a result, Frank
Fee’s other son, Will I. Fee, started
a mortuary business not far from
the hardware store. It was later sold
to Joseph Yates to become Yates
Funeral Home.
In the early 1920s, the Fee family
branched out into the real estate
business. Attorney Fred Fee and
his law partner Walter Liddon
established the Fee & Liddon
Company to launch real estate
ventures, including development
of Pinewood, a subdivision in the
heart of Fort Pierce.
A short time later, Fred Fee and >>
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