(George Campbell Scott)actorBorn: 10/18/1927Birthplace: Wise, Virginia Academy Award-winning film and stage actor known for his powerful presence. His films include Dr. Strangelove (1964) and…
playwright, essayist, criticBorn: 7/26/1856Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Nobel Prize-winning playwright, essayist and critic known for his witty, intelligent dramas of ideas. He was a founder of the…
retailerBorn: 1833Birthplace: Augusta, Maine Hartford worked in stores in Boston and St. Louis before heading to New York City, where he and George F. Gilman opened the first of their stores known…
meatpackerBorn: 1860Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Hormel settled in Austin, Minnesota after working throughout the Midwest, opening the George A. Hormel and Company meat packing business in 1891.…
lumber executiveBorn: 1926Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. He joined the family lumber business, Weyerhaeuser Company after graduating from Yale. He worked for 12 years, first as a mill foreman then…
educator, scientistBorn: 1864Birthplace: Diamond Grove, Mo. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was African American, George Washington Carver attended Simpson College…
religious leader, historianBorn: 1849Birthplace: Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania Enlisting at 14, Williams fought for the North in the Civil War. In 1874, he became the first Black person to graduate…
songwriter, producer, performerBorn: 7/3?/1878Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island George M. Cohan is remembered for penning such rousing tunes as “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Give My Regards to…
Born: 1904Birthplace: York, Pa. Complex computer—Stibitz is internationally recognized as the father of the modern digital computer. In 1939 Stibitz helped design the Model I complex number…
Born: 1864
Birthplace: near Diamond Grove, Mo.
Cosmetic and process of producing same; paint and stain and process of producing the same—When Carver's method of crop rotation…
