Marion Sims Wyeth was born in New York, a son of Florence Nightingale Sims and Dr. John Allan Wyeth, a Civil War poet, surgical pioneer, and founder of New York's…
John L. Volk (1901-1984) was born in Graz, Austria, and immigrated with his family as a child; he grew up in New York City, the son of an "architectural woodworker."…
James Dean Tilford, Jr. (1921-2000) was born in Boston and raised in Pittsburgh. Tilford attended Princeton University before joining the Army Air Corps during World War II, for which he…
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 twelve children was born. Throughout…
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…
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…
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…
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), who was born…
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…