Kanichi Asakawa (1873 - 1948)

Historian. He became a graduate of Dartmouth and the Yale Graduate School. As a member of the Yale faculty, he became the first Japanese professor at a major university in the United States. He dedicated himself to serving as a bridge between the United States and Japan to promote amicable relations. Some of his remains […]

Samuel Chapman Armstrong (1839 - 1893)

Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Educator. He served in the Civil War first as Major of the 125th New York Volunteer Infantry, then as Lieutenant Colonel of the 9th United States Colored Troops, then finally as Colonel and commander of the 8th United States Colored Troops. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on […]

Herbert W. Armstrong (1892 - 1986)

Religious Leader, Publisher. Founder of the Worldwide Church of God and founder of Ambassador College. Publisher of the “Plain Truth Magazine” and the “World Tomorrow” radio-television broadcast heard and seen by millions for over fifty years. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Horace Elon Armstrong (1864 – 1933)  Eva Wright Armstrong (1866 – 1961) […]

Sir Hugh Kerr Anderson (1865 - 1928)

Scientist, Educator. A prominent physiologist, he served as Master of Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, and was the Chairman of the Cambridge University Press in 1918. (bio by: David Conway)

Carl William Ackerman (1890 - 1970)

Educator, Journalist. The Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1931 to 1956, he was a co-founder of the American Press Institute, administered Pulitzer Prizes, helped establish Maria Moors Awards, championed civil liberties and freedom of information and helped emphasize practical training in newspaper work.

Shigetaka Abe (1970 - 1970)

Educator, Author. A native of Niigata, he began teaching at the University of Tokyo in 1934, at which time he introduced American educational methods to Japan. In his 1937 work “Kyoiku kaikaku-ron(Educational Reform),” he extended a proposal of his educational reforms to the Japanese educational system. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Grace Abbott (1878 - 1939)

Social Reformer.  She is remembered, along with her older sister, Edith Abbott, as a voice in improving the rights of immigrants and advancing child welfare in the US.  She also pioneered the process of incorporating sociological data pertaining to child labor, juvenile delinquency, dependency, and statistics into the lawmaking process.  The daughter of the first […]

Richard Blass (1945 - 1975)

Born in the Montreal neighbourhood of Rosemont, Richard Blass would turn to amateur boxing as a way to channel his anger when he was a child. It was after a boxing fight that Blass committed one of his first known crimes, attacking fellow boxer Michel Gouin with a knife after losing a fight to him. […]

Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

Founding Artist of the Neomexicanismo movement. Born in Coyoacán, Mexico. A polio survivor, Kahlo entered the premedical program at National Prepatory School, Mexico City, at the age of 15, however, her medical training was halted by a critical bus accident when she was 18. Her convalescence would last a year, and she would face more […]

Gustave Jundt (1830 - 1884)

Painter.

Thomas Dow Jones (1811 - 1881)

Artist. Best known work includes busts of Lincoln,and Salmon P Chase (for the Supreme Court room of the U.S. Capitol). (bio by: Laurie)

Frank Tenney Johnson (1874 - 1939)

Frank Tenney Johnson was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa on his family’s farm along the old Overland Trail, near Big Grove, Iowa (now known as Oakland, Iowa). Johnson’s mother died in December 1886, and the family moved to Wisconsin. He attended Oconomowoc High School in Oconomowoc. In 1893, he enrolled in the Milwaukee School of […]

Neill “The Hat” Dellacroce (1914 - 1985)

Organized Crime Figure. He was the Underboss of the Gambino Crime Family during the reigns of crime figures Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano. When he died of natural causes in 1985, his death created a vacuum in the Family that lead to the murders of Gambino Family boss Paul Castellano and Underboss Thomas Bilotti on […]

John Milburn Davis (1855 - 1947)

American Folk Figure. His elaborate gravesite is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is visited by 20,000-30,000 people annually. It has been featured in “Life”, “Newsweek”, and “People” magazines, and also on the “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” television show. John Milburn Davis was born in Kentucky, and came to Brown County Kansas […]

James Joseph Daly (1970 - 1920)

Mutineer. The 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers was an Irish Regiment in the British Army.  In June 1920 they were stationed in India at Wellington Barracks in Jullundur. The mutiny was events in England and Ireland that was to cause the men to protest. Brother William Daly had indeed been active at the beginning […]

James Joseph Daly (1970 - 1920)

Mutineer. The 1st Battalion of the Connaught Rangers was an Irish Regiment in the British Army.  In June 1920 they were stationed in India at Wellington Barracks in Jullundur. The mutiny was events in England and Ireland that was to cause the men to protest. Brother William Daly had indeed been active at the beginning […]

Capt Kit Dalton (1843 - 1920)

Western Outlaw. Born in Kentucky, during the Civil War, he fought for the Confederacy and served as a Captain in William Quantrill’s Raiders. After the war he rode with Cole Younger, Jesse and Frank James in a series of robberies through out Kentucky and Tennessee. Five territory governors had set a price upon the head […]

Gratton Dalton (1861 - 1892)

It wasn’t long, however, before Gratton Dalton began looking for an easier way to make a living. He lost his job as a Deputy Marshal in 1890, being suspected for cattle rustling, and formed his gang. Its first members were his brother Bob Dalton, Charley Pierce, George “Bittercreek” Newcomb, Charlie “Blackface” Bryant, and Richard L. […]

Emmett Dalton (1871 - 1937)

Dalton was born to Lewis (16 Feb 1826–16 Jul 1890) and Adeline Dalton (15 Sep 1835–24 Jan 1925) and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers. The Dalton Gang’s criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. Four of the gang were killed in […]

Bob Dalton (1869 - 1892)

In July 1890, Bob Dalton, Grat, and Emmett were accused of stealing horses near Claremore to sell them in Kansas. With a posse close behind of them Bob and Emmett left the territories for California where brother Bill was residing. Grat was arrested for the crime but would gain his release because of a lack […]

Adeline Lee Younger Dalton (1835 - 1925)

Western Figure. Born to Charles Lee “Cole” Younger and his common law wife Parmelia Wilson, she married James Lewis Dalton and had 17 children. Known as the mother of the Dalton Boys Gang clan, she was also the aunt of another family of outlaws, Cole, Bob and Jim Younger. In addition some of her other […]

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (1960 - 1994)

Serial Killer, having killed an estimated 16 men and boys.  Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his parents divorced when he was 18, shortly after his first, undetected (later confirmed) killing in June 1978 of a hitchhiker, Steven Hicks.  His father sent him to college, at Ohio State University, but he flunked out in the first semester, […]

Paul “Skinny” D’Amato (1970 - 1984)

Organized Crime Figure. Known as “Mr. Atlantic City”, he was the owner of the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey from the 1930’s until the club burned down in 1973. The 500 Club was a front for an illegal gambling operation providing slot machines, baccarat, craps, roulette, and blackjack. To draw gamblers, he had […]

William “Billy The Kid” Bonney (1859 - 1881)

Legendary Outlaw. He was born in New York City as Henry McCarty. His mother’s name was Catherine McCarty. Not very much information is known about his father except that he died when the Kid was young. Eventually, Catherine moved with the Kid and his brother Joseph to Wichita Kansas. After his first brush with the […]

Stede Bonnet (1688 - 1718)

Stede Bonnet (c.1688 – 10 December 1718 was an early 18th-century Barbadian pirate, sometimes called “The Gentleman Pirate” because he was a moderately wealthy landowner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy English family on the island of Barbados, and inherited the family estate after his father’s death in […]

Joseph Bonanno (1905 - 2002)

Joseph Bonanno Crime Figure. He immigrated to the United States in his 20s and began to work as a muscleman for the large New York gangs of era, most under Joseph (Joe the Boss) Masseria, and Salvatore Maranzano. When both were murdered in 1931, Bonanno was appointed as boss of the Brooklyn-based Bonnano Family, which […]

Ruggiero “Richie the Boot” Boiardo (1890 - 1984)

Organized Crime Figure. He was a Capo in the Genovese Family from the days of Joe the Boss Masseria in the 1920’s until his retirement in the early 1970’s. He was based in the North Ward of Newark, New Jersey and he had absolute power over all organized crime in that city. His influence in […]

James A. Boarman (1919 - 1943)

Criminal, American Folk Figure. He was a young, violent criminal who found trouble early on in Indianapolis. He was convicted in October 1940 of a Denver bank robbery and sentenced to Alcatraz. He soon threw in with an escape attempt which included Floyd Hamilton, Fred Hunter, and Harold Brest. On April 14, 1943 they made […]

Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983)

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO, from 1956 to 1979, was a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy. He had been a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies […]

Kid Cann (1900 - 1981)

With the onset of Prohibition, Kid Cann and his brothers were transformed from small time hoods into major figures in the American Mafia. His ties to the Chicago Outfit and New York’s Genovese crime family date back to the Prohibition period. According to a later trial, they would legally import industrial grade alcohol from Canada, ostensibly […]