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2018
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Harvey Fletcher was born in Provo, Utah back in 1884. He graduated from Brigham Young High School in 1904. It took him only 3 years to earn his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University graduating in 1907. In 1911, he was the first student to ever earn a Ph.D. summa cum laude at the Univers...
03/31/2018
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Donald James was born in Manhattan back in 1923. to William and Consuelo. He dropped out of the New York City’s DeWitt Clinton High School when he went to work in a theater as an usher. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corp when he was just 16.He saw action at Guadalcanal where he contract...
03/30/2018
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Archibald was born in Kilsyth, Scotland back in 1814 to Robert and Margaret. In 1822, the family moved to Canada. When he turned 17 he built a gristmill, as was the common technology of the period the mill was built without nails. Wooden pins and mortises were used instead. He married Margaret in...
03/29/2018
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Carrie Shortridge was born in Lafayette, Indiana back in 1849 to Elias and Telitha. During the Civil War the family moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa. At 15 she eloped to marry Jeremiah. The family moved several times settling in San Jose, California around 1872. Her husband left her and their 5 kids...
03/28/2018
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Robert Edison was born in Manhattan, New York back in 1909. His maternal grandfather Ezra ran a stagecoach across the old west after the Civil War. He later converted those stagecoach lines to a bus route. In 1931, he graduated from Harvard with a degree in architecture. He was also an accomplish...
03/27/2018
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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...
03/26/2018
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Sherman Mills was born in Oneonta, New York back in 1896 to George and Josephine. This is going to be difficult without getting right to the heart, so let’s get started. He went to three Universities and did not graduate from any of them. His father died in 1924, with him being the only child he ...
03/25/2018
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Benjamin Eisenstadt was born in New York City back in 1906. I know he went to Brooklyn College however, I don’t know if he graduated but after college he opened a cafeteria near the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Business wasn’t great so he switched to making tea bags. However, in 1957 he came up with some...
03/24/2018
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Mary Edwards was born in Oswego, New York back in 1832 to Alvah and Vesta. For her day, she was unconventional in that she did not wear woman’s clothing while doing choirs around their farm. Besides her parents encouraged all of their children to question the regulations and restrictions for wome...
03/23/2018
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Eben Norton was born in Livingston County, New York back in 1818. He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer at the ripe old age of 19. He worked for the Geological Survey of New York for two years before becoming an instructor in mathematics and sciences at the ...
03/22/2018
