Thomas Moore Rickards (1845-1928), Boca Raton's first settler, was born in Ohio and raised in Missouri. He was well educated for his time and trained as a civil engineer. While…
Eugene "Gene" Joseph Ribakoff (1926-2010), grandson of a Russian immigrant, was born January 7, 1926, in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Jacob "Jack" and Bertha "Betty" Ribakoff. Gene's father built a Brooklyn…
Richard Alan Rhoden (1953- ) was born in Boynton Beach, where he developed osteomyelitis, a childhood bone disease, in one leg. Although wearing a brace kept him out of organized…
Porte Francis Quinn (1881-1945) was born in Vinton, Iowa, to Sabina Smythe and Richard H. Quinn. He was married there in 1899 to Helene Elizabeth Salisbury (1878-1956), born in Chicago,…
George Wells Potter (1851-1924) was born in Groton, Massachusetts, and at 18, worked as a cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Because Potter suffered from asthma, his brother, Dr. Richard Potter,…
Louis Robert Perini, Sr. (1903-1972) was born in Massachusetts, the eighth of ten children of Italian immigrants. His father, Bonfiglio Perini (1865-1924), was a stonemason who won large construction contracts…
Barbara Joan Pariente (1948- ) was born and raised in New York City. While she majored in broadcast journalism at Boston University and volunteered for various organizations, Pariente met many…
John Thurman Oxley (1909-1996) was born in Bromide, Oklahoma. He attended college at night at the University of Tulsa and after years in the petroleum industry, started Texas Natural Gasoline…
Phillip Dillon O'Connell (1907-1987) was born in Macon, Georgia; the family started visiting Palm Beach seasonally in 1910. Phillip's mother died when he was eight; he came to West Palm…
Ralph Hubbard Norton (1875 - 1953) was born in Chicago to an affluent family and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1900. He married Elizabeth Calhoun (1881-1947) of Montgomery,…
Ann Weaver Norton (1905-1982) was born in Selma, Alabama. She left home at 19 to study art in New York where she earned the Highest Award in Sculpture from Cooper…
Jack William "Golden Bear" Nicklaus (1940- ) was born and raised in Upper Arlington, Ohio, and played in the U. S. Open before he graduated from high school. Nicklaus declined…