Charles F. Touchton, Sr., born on July 7, 1883 in Stockton, Georgia, moved to Dade City in 1904, graduated from the Atlanta School of Pharmacy, and returned in 1906 to establish Touchton Drug Company, remaining involved in it for most of the next 50 years while also serving as a pharmacist, businessman, rancher, citrus grower, civic leader, Charter Member of the Dade City Kiwanis Club, Sunday School teacher, and Chairman of the Board of Deacons of the First Baptist Church of Dade City. He was an early President of the Dade City Board of Trade from 1911 to 1912 and later chaired the committee that established the "White Way" on Meridian Avenue, the first substantial installation of electric street lights in downtown Dade City. He married Ruth Embry "Miss Polly" Touchton on June 17, 1908, and they became the parents in 1911 of Charles F. Touchton, Jr.; he died on June 8, 1957. Ruth Marie Embry "Miss Polly" Touchton, born in Bennettstown, Kentucky, on March 28, 1887, arrived in Dade City by train on January 5, 1898 with her parents and seven brothers, attended Dade City schools and Agnes Scott Institute in Decatur, Georgia, and became an active volunteer in many parts of community life. She was a Charter Member of the Dade City Woman's Club in 1909, a Red Cross volunteer in World War I, the longest serving member of the First Presbyterian Church of Dade City for 77 years, where she was a Sunday School teacher and leader, a Charter Member of the Dade City Garden Club, and after her death on May 1, 1986 at age 99, Touchton Park was originally named for "Miss Polly" by Dade City's Commissioners.