Dan;

About Cape Coral & the Gulf-American Company--most histories confuse the company with the one which bought out Gulf- American. Those were shady characters many referred to as "loan sharks". The Rosens (Julius ("Jack") and his brother Leonard were pressured by the FL governor's office for kickbacks, which they refused. In retaliation there were unfounded charges made by the governor to try to force them to comply. The corruption was so bad in FL at that time, the Rosens sold their company in 1967 for $127M and left FL to do business in AZ. Published histories do not know the inside story. Your uncle may have known of "JR" as Jack was known to his close associates.