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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Horatio J. Homer was born in Farmington, Connecticut back in 1848, to Charles and Sarah. He left school when he was twelve and worked as a bellhop in Waterbury, Connecticut.  Before moving to Boston, Massachusetts he held several jobs, a steward on a steamboat and a porter on a Pullman car just to name a few.He moved to Boston in 1873, finding work as a waiter at the Commonwealth Hotel.  In 1873, he was working as a janitor at the Globe Theatre.  In 1878, he started working for the Boston Police where he served for 40 years.  He met every president from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson.  He also served as an escort for foreign ambassadors.  He retired from the police force in 1919 as a sergeant he was 70, sadly he died four years later at the age of 74.What you may not know about H...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Jeanne Marjorie Holm was born in Portland, Oregon back in 1921.  Shortly after the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps was established she enlisted in the Army in 1942.  Attending Officer Candidate School at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, she received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1943.Before leaving the Army in 1946, she was in charge of the 106th WAC Hospital Company in West Virginia. she was recalled to duty in 1948, during the Berlin Blockade.  In 1949, she was sent to Erding Air Depot where she served as assistant director of plans and operations.  She retired from the Air Force in 1975.What you may not know about Major General Holm is that in 1952, she was the first woman to attend the Air Command & Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base.  She was the first female one-star general of th...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Ellen Lewis Herndon was born in Culpeper, Virginia back in 1837 to William and Frances.  I don’t have any information about her childhood, however apparently, she was born into a wealthy family.  In 1856, she met her future husband. They married in 1859 in New York City.  she was a talented soprano who often sang with the Mendelssohn Glee Club.Her husband served in the Civil War with the New York militia, while Ellen sympathized with the Confederacy. The pair became a prominent around New York.  Among their friends were the Vanderbilts, Astors and Roosevelts.Her husband devoted his time to the New York Republican party, rising through the ranks to become Adjutant General of New York, with the U.S. Army at the rank of brigadier general.  In 1880, she came down with a cold, which quickly ...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Edward James Heffron was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania back in 1923 to Joseph and Anne.  He attended South Philadelphia High School but dropped out to earn money for the family during the Great Depression.  He worked at the New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey sandblasting cruisers.He enlisted in the United States Army on November 7th, 1942.  He could have stayed out of the war due to a medical condition called Dupuytren’s Contracture.  He saw service in the battles of Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Kaufering concentration camp in Landsberg, Germany.  For his actions during the Battle of the Bulge he was awarded the Bronze Star.After the war, he worked at Publicker Industries operating a whiskey distillery for 20 years.  Afterw...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
John Isaac Hawkins was born in Taunton, Somerset, England back in 1772 to Isaac and Joan.  His father was a watchmaker later becoming a Wesleyan minister.  John emigrated to the United States attending the College of New Jersey studying medicine and later, chemical filtration. He opened a non-vocational craft school in Bristol, Pennsylvania.He returned to England in 1803, opening a London sugar refinery, he worked as a patent agent and consultant.  He joined the Institution of Civil engineers in 1824.  He superintended the construction of the Thames Tunnel.  He also served as president of the Anthropological Society of London.What you may not know about John is that he was also an inventor.  He invented the “pianoforte” the first portable grand piano.  He also invented and patented the ...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Harrison Gray Dyar was born in Harvard, Massachusetts back in 1805.  He apprenticed as a watchmaker in Concord, Massachusetts.  He left for Paris in 1825, returning to the United States in 1858.  When he returned his interest turned to the newly developed technology of electricity. He erected the first telegraph line and dispatched over it the first telegraph message ever sent in America.  In 1868, he purchased the “Lindon Hill” estate in Rhinebeck, New York where he lived until his death in 1875. He was 71.What you may not know about Harrison is that a decision by Levi Woodbury of the Supreme Court of the United States, he determined Harrison laid the first telegraph lines in 1826, a full eighteen years before Samuel Morse patented it in 1847.  It may interest you but Samuel married th...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Anna Rebecca Hall was born in New York City, New York back in 1863 to Valentine and Mary. She was the first born, so when her father died at 17 she was forced to take control of the family.  She was a leading debutant of the 1881 season.  In December of 1883 she married Elliott, the union produced three children.Elliott was a heavy drinker and addicted to laudanum.  In 1889, the family travelled to Austria in search of a treatment for Elliott.  After three months they moved to Paris, soon afterwards Anna and Elliott separated.  Anna moved back to New York where she died of diphtheria, she was 29.  Elliott died from a seizure after a suicide attempt in 1894.What you may not know about Anna Rebecca Hall Roosevelt is that one of her children was named Eleanor, the First Lady of the United ...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
George Britton Halford was born in Petworth, Sussex, England back in 1824 to James and Nancy.  He studied medicine in 1842.  He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1851, and the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852.  He received his doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in 1854.In 1857, he was giving lectures at the Grover Place school of medicine, London.  In 1862, he was appointed professor of anatomy and pathology at the University of Melbourne.  His classes were a full year longer than those existing in Great Britain and Ireland.  It took thirty years before the United Kingdom adopted a minimum five-year course for the medical profession.  He started out teaching three students, over the next 15 years the count grew to 70.  He died in 1910. What you may not know ...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Mario Mahony was born in Chicago, Illinois back in 1871 to Jeremiah and Clara.  In 1880, the family moved to Winnetka.  She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), right now before writing the rest of this I can tell you she was way beyond me in her knowledge, so let’s continue. She returned to Chicago working in her cousin’s architecture firm, with someone you may have heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.  In 1895, she was the first employee hired by Mr. Wright working for him for almost fifteen years. When Mr. Wright left for Europe his firm was taken over by Herman V. von Holst, he gave Mario complete control of design. In that capacity, she designed Henry Ford’s Dearborn mansion and the Amberg House in Grand Rapids. What you may not know about Marion Mahony Griffin i...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Marion Dewitt Green was born in El Dorado, Arkansas back in 1929to Mickinley and Lucy.  In 1937, the family moved to Lansing Michigan.  He joined the United States Air Force, flying the SA-16 Albatross with the 26th Air Rescue Squadron, based in Tokyo, Japan.  He was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame.In 1957, while on leave he applied for a pilot’s position with Continental Airlines.  He was invited for an interview but was passed over while another 5 applicants were accepted.  He appealed the decision which ultimately ended up at the United States Supreme court.  The court ruled in favor of Marion.What you may not know about Marion is that he was he first African-American to be hired as a pilot for Continental Airlines.  He rose through the ranks to captain in 1966.  He ...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
George Franklin Grant was born in Oswego, New York back in 1846 to Phillis and Elandor.  I don’t have any information as to his upbringing, but I can tell you he entered the Harvard School of Dental medicine in 1868 and graduated in 1870. After graduation, he worked for Harvard in the department of mechanical dentistry make him Harvard University’s first African-American faculty member.  He was a founding member and later president of the Harvard Odonatological Society.  He died in 1910 he was 63.What you may not know about George is that he was also an inventor.  He was granted patent number 638,920 for something I use on a weekly basis, the modern golf “T”. Your day is worthwhile when you make someone smile, so give the free gift of a smile today
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Archibald Gracie IV was born in Mobile, Alabama back in 1858.  He attended the St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, later attending the United States Military Academy, becoming a colonel of the 7th New York Militia.  Because his father served in the military seeing battle at the Battle of Chickamauga and later killed in action during the Siege of Petersburg, he spent several years researching the battle. His research turned into a book, The Truth about Chickamauga, published in 1911.  He travelled to Europe in1912, returning later that year aboard the RMS Titanic.  He survived the sinking by climbing onto an overturned lifeboat. He returned to New York where he started writing about the tragedy but never finished it.  He never fully recovered from the ordeal, as a diabetic he su...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Günszberg Dénes was born in Budapest, Hungary back in 1900 to Gunszberg and Jakobovits. In 1902, the family changed their surname to Gabor. In 1918, the family converted to Lutheranism although he considered himself agnostic. During WWI, he served with the Hungarian artillery. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Budapest and later at the Technical University of Berlin.In 1933, he fled Nazi Germany making it to Rugby, Warwickshire working for the British Thomson-Houston Company. In 1948, he moved to be a professor at the Imperial College, London. He died in a nursing home in South Kensington, London in 1979.What you may not know about Dennis Gabor (the name he took when the family changed it from Denes to Gabor), is that he invented holography, for his invention he rece...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Peter Florjančič was born in Bled, Kingdom of Yugoslavia back in 1919. When he was sixteen, he was the youngest member of the Yugoslav skiing team. In 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Slovenia fearing he would be called to serve the German Army he and a friend decided to take a skiing trip to Kitzbuehel, Austria.He was able to fake his own death, escaping over the border into Switzerland. The Germans caught up to him and placed him in an internment camp. While there he invented a loom that was used to help disabled servicemen. After the war in 1950, he moved to Monte Carlo where he invented the perfume atomizer. He has lived in Monaco, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. He has also invented some plastic ice skates, the plastic zipper (1948). He invented the first airbag (1957),...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Pedro Edralin Flores was born in the Philippines back in 1896. He moved to the United States in 1915 settling in San Francisco where he attend the High School of Commerce. He studied law at the University of California, Berkeley and the Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. While attending college he worked at odd-jobs to make a living.While working as a bellboy he read an article that forever changed his life. He remembered playing with a bandalore while in the Philippines. So, in 1928 he opened up a business selling his invention until 1932 when a comparator bought him out for the hefty sum of $750,000.00. having enough money to live comfortably he continued to travel working for the company that bought him out, giving demonstrations on how to use the invention. He died in 1964. W...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
John Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England back in 1646 to Stephen and Mary. He received his education at the free school of Derby. After graduation, he continued his education at the Jesus College in Cambridge. He was fascinated with mathematics and astronomy.He arrived in London in 1675, where he was appointed by royal warrant as “The King’s Astronomical Observer”, a first for England. In 1676, he was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society. He held the office as The King’s Astronomical Observer until his death in 1719, he was 73.What you may not know about John is he was the first person to record the planet Uranus. He also laid the foundation stone for the Royal Greenwich Observatory.Your day is worthwhile when you make someone smile, so give the free gift of a smile today
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Ezra Hasbrouck was born in Coxsackie, New York back in 1865 to Roswell and Margaretta. Sorry but I don’t have any information other than shortly after his birth his mother died. He married Sarah in 1897. For a short time, he was a real estate developer in Kingston, New York. By all accounts he was restless and sitting behind a desk did not work for him.What he did enjoy was the outdoors, fishing in the Catskills, climbing the Adirondacks were just a few things he enjoyed. When David opened a store, Ezra was one of his most devoted customers. In 1900, he bought a major share in that store. By 1907, David and Ezra did not get along so David sold the store to Ezra and as they say the rest is history. Any clue on who I am writing about yet? Ezra died in Santa Barbara, California in 1930, he...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti was born in Senigallia, Italy back in 1792. He was educated at the Piarist College in Volterra and Rome. He entered the Papal Noble Guard in 1815, but soon dismissed due to an epileptic seizure. He continued his theological studies and was ordained a priest in 1819.In 1823, he was sent as Auditor to Chile and Peru. When he returned ho Pope Leo XII appointed him head of the hospital of San Michele in Rome and canon of Santa Marin in Via Lata. As he rose through the ranks he was appointed Archbishop of Spoleto in 1827, he was 35. In 1846, he was made Pope of the Catholic Church a position which he held for over 31 years. He holds the record for the longest serving Pope in history. While you may not know the name Giovanni for my Catholic friends you surely kn...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Margaret Anne Fellman was born in Crawley, Western Australia back in 1921 to Herbert and Ethel. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Australia in 1943. She continued her education at the Perth Technical College passing the exam for Registration as an Architect in 1945. She was the first female cadet in the Public Works Department of Western Australia, receiving a British Council scholarship in 1948. In 1950, she completed her Postgraduate Diploma at the University of Durham. Afterwards she returned to Perth opening a practice in architecture. A founding member of the National Trust of Australia, she also became the Commission of the Australian Heritage Commission in 1976. She died in 2013, she was 92.What you may not know about Margaret is that she...
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By James Dray
(Fathom Realty)
Anthony James Fairbrother was born in Coventry, England back in 1926. He was educated at Bablake School and at the Melton Mowbray Grammar School. He continued his education at the e Havilland Aeronautical Technical School. After graduation, he worked in the design and aerodynamics depart for de Havilland.In 1948, he joined the company’s new flight test department.   He rose through the ranks to head the de Havilland flight development team based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire for the next 30 years before retiring. He died in 2004, he was 78.What you may not know about Anthony (Tony) is that he was the first flight-test engineer on the maiden flight of the de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1, the world’s first jet airliner, in 1949.Your day is worthwhile when you make someone smile, so give the fre...
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