Holland Griswold Holland and Lorinda Griswold came to Florida from Kansas.  In 1886 they purchased property on Lake Sylvan and there constructed a house.  A prominent agriculturalist, Griswold was primarily a grove man who also grew vegetables on his property.   He was a cousin of the Reverend E.P. Hooker, a Congregational minister who served as the first president of Rollins College.   Miss Mary Brown was a neighbor of the Griswolds.  The Ward family later occupied and purchased the house. Holland Willis Griswold in 1886   Holland Willis Griswold with granddaughter, Lucy Eager May and grandniece, Nellie Baker.  This was taken before The Big Freeze" of 1894-1895.