Marvin Umphrey Mounts, Jr. (1932-2004) was born in West Palm Beach, the son of Marvin U. "Red" Mounts, Sr., Palm Beach County's agricultural agent from 1929 to 1965. Marvin Mounts,…
Charles Stewart Mott (1875-1973) was born in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897 with an engineering degree. He became president of his family's bicycle-tire…
George Sukeji Morikami (1887-1976) was born in Miyazu, Japan, and emigrated to the United States in 1906 to join the Yamato Colony in what would become western Boca Raton. Henry…
Robert Morel Montgomery, Jr. (1930-2008) was born in East Lake, Alabama, the son and grandson of attorneys. Robert graduated from the University of Alabama, where he met and married art…
Arthur I. Meyer (1916-2008) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He earned an accounting degree from New York University and a law degree from New York University School…
Janice J. McArt (1927-2021) was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She majored in theater at DePauw University in Indiana until she left to tour as the lead in Rogers and…
Luciano "Lou" Martinez (1948-2003) was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Miami when he was twelve. He came to Palm Beach County after earning a degree in social work…
Howard Brougham Major (1882-1974) was born in New York, the grandson of a lithographer and the son of a printer's artist. Major studied at the New York Atelier of Beaux-Arts…
Connie Mack (1862-1956) was born Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy in Massachusetts. He became a professional baseball player, manager, and team owner who long-held several Major League Baseball records.
Mack started in the…
Gustav Adam Maass, Jr. (1893-1964) was born in New Orleans, the third of eight children of German immigrants. His father was a mechanical engineer. Maass grew up in New Orleans…
Daisy Emily Butler Lyman (1871-1964), West Palm Beach's first teacher and the wife of one of Lantana's founding sons, was born on March 25, 1871, in Cairo, Illinois.
Two years after…
Philip Daniel Lewis (1929-2012) was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and grew up in Chicago and Palm Beach. His father, Frank J. Lewis (1867-1960), had first visited the area to pave…