Four people, Edward Trainer, Captain Fulford, Mrs. Harry Lance, and Robert Fulford, guests at the Sunrise Inn, stand behind a record tarpon.
Published in From the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico, the souvenir edition of program for the Cross-State Canal Celebration, published by The Stuart Daily News, on February 27, 1937. Caption: "The largest tarpon ever caught in the United States, a 223-pounder, was landed in the St. Lucie river near Stuart by Edward Trainer, Philadelphia sportsman"
William Dowling McFarlan Jr. (1836-1925), brother Robert M. McFarlan (1843–1914), and cousin Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913) and his wife Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and young son were regular winter visitors to Stuart from their home in Pennsylvania, between 1895 through about 1910. Both William, a retired merchant, and Louis, a cloth merchant, purchased several properties in Stuart between 1904 and 1907.
