Gustav Adam Maass, Jr. (1893-1964) was born in New Orleans, the third of eight children of German immigrants. His father was a mechanical engineer. Maass grew up in New Orleans…
Daisy Emily Butler Lyman (1871-1964), West Palm Beach's first teacher and the wife of one of Lantana's founding sons, was born on March 25, 1871, in Cairo, Illinois.
Two years after…
Philip Daniel Lewis (1929-2012) was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Chicago and Palm Beach. His father, Frank J. Lewis (1867-1960), had first visited the area to pave…
John Ireson Leonard (1886-1961) was born in Joliet, Illinois, where his father managed the local bank. Leonard attended nearby Lombard College and became an osteopathic and nephropathic physician in Joliet…
Raymond Field Kravis (1901-1993) was born in London, England, and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He developed a work ethic early from two working parents. After receiving an Engineer…
James Robert Knott (1910-1999) was born in Tallahassee, the grandson of a soldier in the Second Seminole War. Knott's father was William Valentine Knott, who served as Florida's auditor, comptroller,…
Ulysses Bradshaw "U. B. " Kinsey (1914-2005) was born the third of ten children in Fort White, in northern Florida. His father sold the family farm and bought a grocery…
Harry Allison Johnston II (1931- ) was born in West Palm Beach, the son of Harry Allison Johnston, Sr. (1895-1983), who was known as "Colonel Johnston" for his service during…
Richard Salisbury "Dick" Johnson (1930-2012) and Patsy Ann "Pat" Seaton (1931- ) were both delivered, nearly a year apart, by Dr. W. W. George at a maternity home on Kenilworth…
Richard Green Johnson, Sr. (1866-1945) was born in Tallahassee to Green Johnson and Letitia Josephine Johnson, and in 1897 married Margaret "Maggie" Bell (1872-1955) of Concord, Florida.
Johnson owned a 1480-acre…
Richard Green Johnson, Jr. (1900-1957) was born in Tallahassee to Richard G. Johnson, Sr. (see bio) and Margaret Ann "Maggie" Bell. Johnson attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and…
Dr. Joseph Wiley Jenkins (1901-1950) was born in Summerville, South Carolina. He met and married Roberta Robinson (1907-2002) in Tampa, where she was studying, in 1929. Jenkins came to West…