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 12 children was born; they…
Fritz Carl Stein, Jr. (1931-2011) was born into a Belle Glade farm family, the grandson of Wisconsin farmers Hans Juergen Stein (1868-1930), from Kaunas, Russia, now in Lithuania, and his…
Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903-1991), a mayor of Palm Beach and U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and studied at Yale. Smith founded an investment…
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…
Arthur J. Rooney, Sr. (1901-1988) was born in Coultersville, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1920 from Indiana (PA) Normal, which became Indiana State University of Pennsylvania. He played semi-pro football, minor…
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…
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…
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…
Richard Alan Rhoden (1953- ) was born in Boynton Beach, where he developed osteomyelitis, a childhood bone disease, in one leg. Although wearing a brace kept him out of organized…