Buzz MacWilliam gives an address as president of the Realtors Association of Indian River County shortly after taking over his father’s firm in 1991.
It began in 1949 as a small, one-man-and-a-secretary business on a dirt road in downtown Vero Beach. Called simply Alex MacWilliam Real Estate, the name it has used ever since, it was the brainchild of Alex MacWilliam Jr., a veteran of World War II who had seen service with the U.S. Army Air Force in the Pacific.
Like many veterans, the 21-year-old Floridian had returned to the U.S. without much notion of how he wanted to earn a living, except for a fervent desire to do something worthwhile in the brave new post-war world.
He knew it would not be easy since he was following in the footsteps of a distinguished father. Alex Sr. was a Scottish immigrant from Edinburgh who had established himself as a landscape architect in Cleveland, Ohio, then fought with such courage in the First World War that his medals included a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts and the French Croix de Guerre.
Read the entire article in the November 2009 issue
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