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Abel Buell was born in Killingworth, Connecticut back in 1742 to John and Abigail. He apprenticed with a goldsmith. At the young age of 19 he was financially secure, marrying his girlfriend Mary. He was also not the best egg in the basket. He was also a counterfeiter. He altered a five-pound note...
04/30/2019
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Rebecca Ann Bryan was born in Winchester, Virginia back in 1739 to Joseph and Hester. When she was ten, the family moved to the Yadkin River Valley in North Carolina. In 1756, she married Daniel. The union produced six sons and four daughters.When she was in her early forties, considered an old w...
04/29/2019
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Peter Buck was born in South Portland, Maine back in 1930. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Continuing his education in 1952 he graduated with a master’s and doctoral degree in physics at Columbia University.From 1957 to 1978 he worked as a nuclear physicist for several companies. ...
04/28/2019
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Edward Gowen was born in Smyrna, Delaware back in 1870. He studied engineering in Philadelphia taking his knowledge working for the Pullman Company. In 1912, he founded his own company specializing in the manufacture of pressed-steel chassis frames for automobiles. One of his first clients was th...
04/27/2019
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Charles Francis was born in Euclid, Ohio back in 1849 to Isaac and Delia. He attended Central High School in Cleveland graduating with honors in 1867. He received an undergraduate education from the University of Michigan and his PhD at Case Western Reserve University in 1880.Before graduating he...
04/26/2019
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Charles Brunier was born in Paris back in 1901. I do not have any information on Charles until 1918 when he was wounded in action while serving in Syria. He received the Croix de Guerre for saving a lieutenant’s life during WWI. In 1923, he was convicted of murder and armed robbery sent to a pena...
04/25/2019
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Peter Bruner was born in Clark County, Kentucky back in 1845 into slavery. At around 10 he worked as a tanner. From what I’ve read he was a rebellious child who was beaten often. In 1864, he escaped and joined the Union Army as a free man at Camp Nelson in Kentucky serving in Company C of the 12t...
04/24/2019
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Robert R. Bruno Jr., was born in Los Angeles, California back in 1945 to Robert Sr., and Delores. His parents divorced when he was an infant, so he spent part of the year and in the United States and part of it in Mexico. He attended Dominican College in Racine, Wisconsin and did his graduate at ...
04/23/2019
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Albert Brown was born in North Platte, Nebraska back in 1905 to Albert Sr., and Ida. His mother was the aunt of actor Henry Fonda and his father was the godson of Buffalo Bill Cody. He joined the R.O.T.C. while in high school. In 1927, he received his bachelor’s degree in dentistry for Creighton ...
04/22/2019
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Dorothy Lavinia was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania back in 1914. She was placed in an orphanage in Troy, New York by her mother Edna just five months after birth. She lived there until she was 12. At 15 she ran away enrolling at the Troy High School, working for Mrs. Jarrrett. After graduatin...
04/21/2019
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