Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin was born earn Dungeness, Kent, England back in 1833 to Charles and Henrietta. He studied at Jedburgh, Borders then he attended the Edinburgh Academy. When his father retired in 1847, the family moved to Frankfurt. Just a year later the family moved to Paris.Later ...
Katharine Jefferts was born in Pensacola, Florida back in 1954 to Keith and Elaine. She attended school in New Jersey. He attended Stanford University earning a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, a Master of Science degree in oceanography and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 from the Oregon S...
Frederick Grinnell was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts back in 1836. I have no clue as to his parents, or much of anything until he graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1855. After graduation, he worked as a draftsman, construction engineer and manager for several railroad ...
Emma Sarah Etine Edwards was born in what I can gather in New York. Where exactly I could not find out to Richard and Emma back in 1856. She was an American painter and designer. In 1890, on her way to visit friends she stopped in Boise, Idaho never to leave. In 1891, she started teaching art ...
Samuel Glenn Fuqua was born in Laddonia, Missouri back in 1899. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1919. After graduation, he served on the destroyer USS Macdonough and the battleship USS Mississippi. From shore duty at San Francisco, California he was the commanding officer of the min...
John Fowler was born in Melksham, Wiltshire, England back in 1826. When he left school, he worked for a local corn merchant. However, in 1847 he joined an engineering firm in Middlesbrough where he was working with steam locomotives and winding machines. In 1849, on a business trip to Ireland dur...
Sylvia Olga Fedoruk was born in Canora, Saskatchewan back in 1927 to Theodore and Annie. Her father was a school teacher, she attended the one room schoolhouse in Wroxton. She attended the University of Saskatchewan receiving a Bachelor of Arts in physics and her M.A. in 1951.She was the chief me...
Theodore Thaddeus Ellis was born in St. Louis, Missouri back in 1867 to John and Mary. As a teen, he worked as an apprentice becoming a pressman in 1886. He joined the United States Navy serving three years before being discharged. He worked for the Brockton Enterprise in Massachusetts and the Bo...
Andrew W. Houston was born in Acton, Massachusetts back in 1983. He graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in the 1990’s. He continued his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduating with a degree in Computer Science. After graduation, he worked for Bit9,...
Robert Digges Wimberly Connor was born in Wilson, North Carolina back in 1878 to Henry and Kate. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1899. In 1907, he was placed in charge of the North Carolina Historical Commission. He lobbied the North Carolina General Assembly ...
Emily Winifred Dickson was born in Tyone, Ireland back in 1866 to Thomas and Elizabeth. Her mother was sick for most of her childhood so she nursed her for over a year after school. She was educated at the Mrs. Byers’ Ladies Collegiate school in Belfast. At the time women were not allowed to atte...
Maria Dalle was born just outside Bologna, Italy back in 1778 to a peasant family. She was raised and educated by one of her uncles (his name is lost to history). She studied medicine at the University of Bologna. In 1800, she published three scientific papers, on anatomy, physiology and midwifer...
Wallace H. Coulter was born in Little Rock, Arkansas back in 1913. He graduated from high school in McGehee, Arkansas going to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, then onto the Georgia Institute of Technology. From the time, he graduated until he received his U.S. patent #2,656,508 in 1953, ...
Aeneas Coffey was born circa 1780 in Dublin or Wicklow, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. From 1799-1800 he worked as a gauger (one who inspects dutiable bulk goods). By 1813, he was appointed sub-commissioner of Inland Excise and Taxes for the district of Drogheda. By 1818, he...
Sorry no post, except for this one blimp today. Mother Nature, in her fury came a calling yesterday, right in the pathway to keep me from getting home.I did make it to Chicago from Cary NC. Our flight was delayed then delayed again. Of course that caused a ripple effect which caused my connect...
Thaddeus Cahill was born somewhere in Iowa (exact location unknown) back in 1867. I don’t have a lot of information (none) about his parents or early upbringing. What I can tell you about his is that he studied physics of music at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio. He worked as a clerk for ...
Jill Elaine Brown as born in Baltimore, Maryland back in 1950. By the age of 11 she was driving a forklift at her father’s construction business and at 17 started taking flying lessons. Graduating from Arundel High School she enrolled at the University of Maryland studying economics. Afterwards s...
Louis Brennan was born in Castlebar, Ireland back in 1852. The family moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1861. His career started out as a watchmaker, serving as a sergeant in the Victorian Engineers. It was during that time that he invented something that will forever place him in the history book...
Bessie Blount Griffin was born in Hickory, Virginia back in 1914. She attended Diggs Chapel Elementary School. After graduation, she attended Community Kennedy Memorial Hospital’s nursing program in Newark, New Jersey where she obtained her Nursing Degree. She continued her education at Panzer Co...
John West was born in Linlithgow, Scotland back in 1809. Sometime before 1849 he immigrated to Quebec, Canada working as a millwright. In 1849, he left his family and job for the California Gold Rush. A year later with little gold for all of his efforts he again moved to Astoria, Oregon working a...