August H. Butts (1884-1955) and his wife, Natalie Swanson Butts, came from Lake County, Florida, to West Palm Beach before 1920. Butts purchased 3,500 acres west of Boca Raton that…
Robert Calvin "Bobby" Butler (1959- ) was born in Boynton Beach to Reverend Richard W. and Emma J. Butler. Bobby graduated from Atlantic Community High School, Delray Beach (1977), where…
Orville Bulman, a self-taught artist, and one of Palm Beach's most successful painters, was born in 1904 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A year later his father, Elvah O. Bulman, invented…
Clarence L. "Carl" Brumback, M.D., M.P.H. (1914-2012) was born in Colorado and raised in Kansas, where he completed medical school at the University of Kansas. During World War II Brumback…
Edward Riley "E. R." Bradley (1859-1946) was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of Hugh Bradley, an Irish steelworker, and Mary "Mollie" Riley.At fourteen, his adventurous spirit led him…
Stephen Bennett Bell (1844-1896) was born in Decatur County, Georgia, to Margaretta Moore and Larkin Bell. Stephen attended medical school in Philadelphia, it is believed at one of the Eclectic…
John Bloomfield Beach (1866-1929), pioneer horticulturist, was born in Rome, New York. After finishing military school he moved to Melbourne, Florida, and established Indian River Nurseries in 1887, the first…
Rosemary Barkett (1939- ), U.S. Circuit Judge, was born in Mexico to Syrian parents. When her parents tried to follow family members from Syria to the United States in the…
Mary Lewis-Warren Bankston (1942- ) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and at the age of eleven moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, along with her eight siblings. Mary graduated from…
James Arango Armour (1825-1910) was born to Dutch settlers in New York City. He made his way to the Indian River in the 1850s and settled at Sand Point, now…
Ottis Jerome Anderson (1957- ) was born in West Palm Beach, where he dominated the football team at Forest Hill High School in the early 1970s. Anderson has attributed his…
Anders Sorenson "A.S." Andersen (1890-1953) was known to his friends as "Captain" Andersen due to his love and lifelong connection with the sea.Captain Andersen, the son of [Rasmus or Rufus]…