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…
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.…
Harry William Winkler II (1945 - ), a two-time U. S. Olympian team handball player and Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame inductee, showed athletic promise at an early…
George Herman Wedgworth (1928-2016) was born in Starkville, Mississippi, the first of three children. The family moved to Belle Glade in 1930, where his father, Herman Wedgworth, was the first…
Howell Lee Watkins (1894-1965) was born near Boston, Georgia, and descended from a 17th-century governor of North Carolina. After graduating from Emory University, he taught school in Georgia, served in…
Donald Eugene Warren (1927-2014) was born in Miami and raised in Lakeland. He attended Washington and Lee University and Duke University Medical School, and completed a cardiology fellowship at Emory…
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.…
Thomas Rudolph Vickers (1879-1965) was born in Key West and graduated from Howard University's medical school. About 1912 he started a medical practice on Rosemary Avenue, one of seven black…
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…
Jerry Thomas (1929-1980) was born in West Palm Beach, where he graduated from Palm Beach High School (1946) and Palm Beach Junior College (1949). He earned a degree in public…
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…
Catherine Strong (1911-1963) was born Catherine Elizabeth Link in New York and moved to Delray Beach with her family about 1920, when her father was a craftsman with Mizner Industries.…