John Shaw Sundy (1864-1947) was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was superintendent of construction for what became the Florida East Coast Railway. When the tracks reached Palm Beach in…
Catherine Strong (1911-1963) was born Catherine Elizabeth Link in New York and moved to Delray Beach with her family about 1920, when her father was a craftsman with Mizner Industries.…
Lillian (1902-1968) and William (1898-1954) Stevens were born in Cat Island, Bahamas. They came to West Palm Beach by 1921, when the first of their 12 children was born; they…
Fritz Carl Stein, Jr. (1931-2011) was born into a Belle Glade farm family, the grandson of Wisconsin farmers Hans Juergen Stein (1868-1930), from Kaunas, Russia, now in Lithuania, and his…
Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903-1991), a mayor of Palm Beach and U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and studied at Yale. Smith founded an investment…
Stephen Hall Shepherd (1950- ) was born in New York City and moved to Palm Springs with his family at the age of eight. He graduated from Lake Worth High…
Clyde Hall Seaton, Sr. (1903-1986) was born into a farming family in Henderson, Tennessee, to Leonidas Whitfield Seaton and Nancy Bray. He studied business at college in Oxford, Mississippi, and…
Arnold Scaasi (1930-2015) was born Arnold Martin Isaacs in Montreal, Canada, to Samuel and Elizabeth Isaacs. Samuel was a furrier who traveled across the country in search of special raw…
Arthur J. Rooney, Sr. (1901-1988) was born in Coultersville, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1920 from Indiana (PA) Normal, which became Indiana State University of Pennsylvania. He played semi-pro football, minor…
Roy Schallern Rood (1919-2011) was born in Rood, Florida, located just north of the Jupiter Farms community and named for his parents, Sophia Hetzel and Homer Harlow Rood. The Roods…
Henry John Rolfs, Sr. (1908-1994), the son of a German cabinetmaker, was born in New York City. After earning degrees from Rutgers and Columbia universities, Rolfs became a developer in…
Marshall Edison "Doc" Rinker, Sr. (1904-1996) was born in Cowan, Indiana, where he grew up on his family's farm. He attended Ball State Teachers College, now Ball State University, in…