Ethel E. Sterling Williams (1891-1987) was born in Pennsylvania to Mary Elizabeth Tucker Sterling and Henry Joseph Sterling. At the age of five, she moved to Linton, which would become…
Henry Joseph Sterling (1866-1947) was born in New Jersey to Scotch-Irish parents and worked in a cotton mill as a teenager. He married Mary Elizabeth Tucker (1865-1918) of Maryland in…
Laura Woodward (1834-1926) was born in Mount Hope in Orange County, New York, in 1834, and by the early 1870s, she was a professional artist living in New York City.…
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…
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…
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,…
Marion Eugene "M.E." Gruber (1867-1956) was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Julia and Joseph Albion Clayton Gruber, a railroad engineer. Gruber joined his older half-brother, Joseph E. Gruber, and…
Elbridge Gale (1824-1907) was born in Vermont and is believed to have graduated from the Theological School of New Hampton Institute, a Free Will Baptist school in New Hampshire. He…
Henry "Harry" DuBois (1871-1924) was born in Holmdel, New Jersey, where he worked on the family farm. At age 16, he began spending the winters working for a Merritt Island…