John Venn was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England back in 1834 to Henry and Martha. His father was a rector for a local parish, being raised up in a strict atmosphere. He was educated at the Sir Roger Cholmeley’s School in London. In 1853, he enrolled at Gonville and Caius College in C...
Salem Poor was born in Andover, Massachusetts back in 1747. He joined the Revolutionary Army in 1775. Serving under Captain Benjamin Ames he is best remembered for his action during the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, where he is credited with mortally wounding the British Lieutenant Colonel James...
William Henry was born in Camberwell, England back in1887 to Edwin and Eliza. As a child, he stuttered and was bow-legged. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School. He continued his education at King’s College, London. He never graduated leaving for Canada where he worked as a farm laborer. He b...
Franz Josef was born in Vienna back in 1886. In 1901, the family moved to Brno where he received his education graduating with an engineering degree in 1909. After graduation, he returned to Vienna working for AEG-Union as an electrical engineer. He joined the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal ...
William Painter was born in Ireland to Edward and Louisa. BTW, this one is going to be short, so hang on here we go. When he was twenty he moved to the United States settling in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1865, he worked as a foreman at the Murrill & Keizer’s machine shop. At that time in our histor...
Robert Francis was born in Baltimore Maryland back in 1839 to Robert and Mary Jane. The family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts around 1850, where they opened a boarding house. In 1863, Robert Jr. was working in New York City as a marble cutter when he enlisted in the United States Navy. He serv...
Frederick Anthony Picariello was born in Revere, Massachusetts back in 1936. At a young age, he joined the National Guard, took a job driving a truck, married and was a father. He now resides in Tarzana, California. Now for the rest of the story.During his spare time, he learned to play the guita...
Where did they go #3.William Morgan was born in Culpepper, Colony of Virginia back in 1774. He worked as a bricklayer and stone cutter. He married Lucinda moving his family to York, Upper Canada where he operated a brewery. It was destroyed by a fire and he moved back to Rochester, New York.He cl...
Harry Burnett was born in York County, Pennsylvania back in 1879 to Aquilla and Annie. In 1917, you could find him working on a dairy farm. During his spare time, he began experimenting in his basement with some ingredients. By 1923, he started his own company selling his assortment of inventi...
Ernest Leslie was born in Ipswich, England back in 1852. In 1844 his father Frederick had patented artificial stone. By the 1870, Ernest had moved to the United States where he was superintendent of the Pacific Stone Company in San Francisco. In 1884, he received a patent number 305,226 for hi...
Fernand Petiot was born in Paris, France back in 1900. I do not have any information on his parents other than they owned a boarding house, thus the backdrop for the rest of the story. When he was a child he worked in the kitchen until he was employed by The New York Bar in Paris. He progressed...
Seth Pomeroy was born in Northampton, Massachusetts back in 1706 to Ebenezer and Sarah. As he aged he became a mechanic and gunsmith, earning a reputation as one of the best gunsmiths in the colony.In 1745, you could find him at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. The French had spiked the gun...
Alexander Whitaker was born in Cambridge back in 1585 to William, sorry his mother’s name was not listed. Anyway, on with the rest of the story. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He traveled across the pond settling in Virginia in 1611. He drowned while crossing the James River i...
Oliver Hudson was born in Boston back in 1826. He moved to Minnesota in 1849 where he became a farmer. In 1864, he was working with the United States Bureau of Agriculture. Part of his job was to travel through the Eastern and Southern States looking at what effect the Civil War had on farmin...
Schuyler Skaats was born in New York City, New York back in 1860 to James and Annie. He was educated at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. In 1883 he joined the United States Electric Lighting Company, leaving later to join the engineering staff of Thomas A. Edison. His job there was the Pe...
Lydia Barrington was born in Dublin, Ireland back in 1728 to John and Mary. In 1753 she married William and immigrated to Philadelphia so William could work as a tutor. She worked as a midwife. Lydia and William had 5 children that survived and 4 others that died in infancy. Lydia was not educa...
James Lynch was born in Baltimore, Maryland back in 1839. He attended Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire spending only two years there. He moved to Indianapolis where he committed himself to the ministry, preaching in Galena, Illinois.In 1863, he was appointed Missionary and Government Superi...
Mary Anderson was born in Greene County, Alabama back in 1866. In 1889, the family moved to Birmingham, Alabama. She was involved in real estate, where she built the Fairmont Apartments on Highland Avenue in Birmingham.In 1893, she moved to Fresno, California where she operated a cattle ranch and...
Isaac Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut Colony back in 1773. His father died while he was still a young lad and his uncle William adopted him. In 1798, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the newly formed United States Navy.For his first two years he served on board the frigate USS Constitution...
Thomas Fitch, V was born in Norwalk, Connecticut back in 1725 to Thomas, IV and Hannah.During the French and Indian War, he was the commander of the New England Regiments. Three years later he had rose to the rank of Senior Colonel commanding sixteen regiments by the time he left the service. Aft...