Charles Britton Fulton (1910-1996) was born in Nevada and moved to Lake Worth with his family in 1924. His mother, Lillian Britton Fulton, was pastor of the First Congregational Church…
Thomas Farrar Fleming, Jr. (1916-1976) was born in Georgia and educated at the University of Florida and Harvard Business School. He settled in Boca Raton in 1940 with his wife,…
Victor W. Farris (1910-1985), industrialist-inventor, was born in Buffalo, New York, where he attended the University of Buffalo and later continued his education at MIT. He manufactured many of his…
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised in London, Celia Lipton (1923-2011) was the daughter of a famed orchestra leader and impresario who played at Buckingham Palace for many years. Celia…
Joseph Denson Farish, Jr. (1921-2010) was born to Joseph D. and Louise Johnson Farish in Columbus, Georgia, where the senior Farish, a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School,…
Alfonso Fanjul, Sr. (1909-1980) was born in Havana, Cuba, and graduated from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. His family owned the Czarnikow-Rionda Company in New York and the Cuban Trading…
Alfred (1871-1952) and Amanda Elfrida Erickson (1877-1954) emigrated from Gutenburg, Sweden, to Minnesota in 1891. They homesteaded in 1911 on the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee with their four children.…
George Thomas Elmore (1929-) was born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, where he worked from a young age for his uncle's paving business. After high school, Elmore came to Fort Lauderdale to…
John Brelsford Dunkle (1928-2005), Palm Beach County Clerk for 33 years, was born in West Palm Beach. His maternal grandfather, Edmund Munger Brelsford, had come from Ohio in 1880, and…
Watson B. Duncan III (1915-1991) of Charleston, South Carolina, taught English, Speech, and Drama at Palm Beach Community College for 43 years, from 1948-1991. His energy and passion kept his…
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…
Alexander Wallace Dreyfoos, Jr. (1932-2023) was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Business School. In 1963, Dreyfoos co-founded Photo Electronics…