Stuart B. McIver, a long-time resident of Lighthouse Point and a prolific writers who authored many books and articles on South Florida history, died yesterday.

Stuart was a familiar face at the Pompano Beach Historical Society; over the years he gave a number of talks to its membership. He and his wife Joan could be seen quite often at the Pompano Beach Green Market on Saturday mornings.

His most recently published book was Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism. A partial list of his other works includes Hemingway's Key West, Dreamers, Schemers, and Scalawags, Fort Lauderdale and Broward County: An Illustrated History, Yesterday's Palm Beach, One Hundred Years on Biscayne Bay, 1887-1987, Coral Springs: The First Twenty-five Years and True Tales of the Everglades.

Most important, Stuart was a kind and generous person who inspired many others to appreciate and preserve the history of South Florida.