Maurice H. Fleishman (1909 - 2009)

Architect. Fleishman, who graduated from McGill University’s School of Architecture in Montreal, Canada, was best known for his ‘mid century’ modern style of civic buildings in Southern California.  Among his most notable designs are the Marina Del Rey Yacht Club (1965), Santa Monica Municipal Courts (1968), Beverly Hills Municipal Courts (1970), Malibu Administrative Center (1970) […]

Col Evett Dumas Nix (1861 - 1946)

US Marshal. The son of a Confederate army officer,  he moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1889.  He ran a grocery store before he was appointed the first United States marshal over the lawless Oklahoma Territory by President Grover Cleveland. Nix hired the famous Three Guardsmen (Bill Tilghman, Heck Thomas, and Chris Madsen) and supervised over […]

Max Fleischer (1883 - 1972)

Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney’s strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of […]

John Randolph Neal (1876 - 1959)

Lawyer. He was the chief defense for John Thomas Scopes in the 1925 Scopes Trial, and was later joined by Clarence Darrow. Prior to this he had successfully won a seat in the General Assembly and two years later he won election to the Tennessee Senate. He was also a former University of Tennessee Law […]

John Flaxman (1755 - 1826)

Artist. Considered as one of the greatest British sculptor of his day, particularly renowned for his church memorials.

James Foster Neal (1929 - 2010)

American Trial Lawyer. He was considered one of the nation’s most outstanding prosecuting and defense attorneys. He attended the University of Wyoming on a football scholarship before joining the United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s. Following military service, he attended Vanderbilt and Georgetown Universities, earning advanced degrees in law. He served as a […]

James Montgomery Flagg (1877 - 1960)

Illustrator.  He created the 1917 World War I United States Army recruitment poster that depicted “Uncle Sam” pointing at the viewer with the caption “I Want YOU for U.S. Army”, a work that has become famous and iconic in American history. Born in Pelham Manor, New York, he began to draw at a young age, […]

Michael A. Musmanno (1897 - 1968)

Nuremberg Judge. Born in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania, he was lawyer in Pittsburgh,  in the 1920s and was elected to the State Legislature as a Republican in 1928. During the 1930s, he was serving as an officer in the US Navy Reserves and as a judge in courts of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. When World War II […]

Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick (1891 - 1969)

Cartoonist. In 1913 he began to work for the St. Louis Dispatch in St. Louis, Missouri, as a cartoonist. During his time at the newspaper he created some 14,000 editorial drawings that were championed toward the underdog types. In 1926 and 1955 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his drawings. He retired in 1958 after […]

Constance Baker Motley (1921 - 2005)

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890 - 1956)

Artist.  A loner and shy person, he spent almost his whole life in Winnipeg painting, drawing and sketching quiet contemplative scenes.  He spent his childhood summers on his grandmother’s Manitoba farm where he developed a deep love for Canada’s prairies.  He studied art in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then in New York City, New York […]

Harry Nicholson Morse (1835 - 1912)

Western Lawman. Born in New York City, he relocated to California to search for gold in the 1850s. By the 1870s, he was serving as a constable in the area of San Francisco when he was elected Alameda County Sheriff. Respected as a fine peace officer, he was best known for the capture of the […]

Harry Conway “Bud” Fisher (1885 - 1954)

Cartoonist. He was the creator of the cartoon “Mutt and Jeff”, which would become the first to achieve success as a daily newspaper comic strip. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he was educated in the city public schools prior to attending the University of Chicago. In 1905 he left Chicago for California, where he joined the” […]

Vincent de Moro-Giafferi (1878 - 1956)

Criminal Lawyer. Vincent served in the French army in World War I, and was an officer of the Legion of Honor. He held the Croix de guerre. One of the most famous criminal lawyers of his era, he acquired a reputation that was global in scope. Courtrooms were packed with other lawyers, and the general […]

Lothar Fischer (1933 - 2004)

Artist. Born in Germershaim near Karlsruhe, he was one of Germany’s most acclaimed sculptors known for abstact human figures in clay, bronze and iron. Awarded numerous prizes in Germany and Europe for his art. A member of the German Artists federation from 1963 to 1994 and was professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin […]

Lester Moore (1970 - 1970)

Western Figure. In the late 1880s, Lester Moore worked as a Wells Fargo Station Agent in the Mexico-United States border town of Naco, Arizona. One day a man named Hank Dunstan arrived at the Wells Fargo station to pick up a package he was expecting. When Moore handed him a badly battered and mangled package, […]

Anton Otto Fischer (1882 - 1962)

Acclaimed Illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post. During World War II, was given the rank of “artist laureate” for the United States Coast Guard. The resulting pictures are now in the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. In 1947, Fischer wrote and illustrated a book about his sailing years entitled, Fo’c’sle Days. His paintings […]

John Bassett Moore (1860 - 1947)

Jurist. First American Judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice. An 1880 graduate of the University of Virginia, he was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. In 1885 he clerked at the Department of State. He served as Assistant Secretary of State during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and after the […]

Elio Fiorucci (1935 - 2015)

Fashion Designer. Fiorucci was a fashion designer and retail visionary whose designs and ideas encapsulated the flamboyance of the disco era and helped launch the careers of other designers and artists. At age 17, he went to work in his father’s shoe boutique before opening his own store in Milan in 1967. In 1970, he […]

Howard Finster (1916 - 2001)

Artist. Born in Valley Hood, Alabama. A former traveling Baptist preacher and bicycle repairman, he was known for making over 47,000 works of art using various components. He also painted album covers for R.E.M. and Talking Heads, as well as special olympic-themed Coke bottle art for Coca-Cola. The largest collection of his works can be […]

John Paul “Jay” Monahan (1956 - 1998)

Television Personality. He was known as a fine lawyer and legal commentator for TV, who was married to Katie Couric, the host of NBC’s “Today” program. As legal analysis for NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC, during his career he covered many major cases to include the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, Timothy McVeigh civil trial and […]

Robert Finkelhor (1899 - 1957)

American Architect. Finkelhor, who was primarily known for designing large residences and celebrity estates, studied architecture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg and was a member of the Architects Institute of America from 1920 to 1923. He spent the early portion of his career in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. and Washington, D.C. and designed Air […]

Marvin Mitchelson (1928 - 2004)

Celebrity divorce attorney based in Los Angeles, California. He died at the Rehabilitation Center of Beverly Hills after a long battle with cancer. He was a successful divorce pioneer who is known as the father of palimony. His first major case was the million dollar settlement for James Mason’s former wife, Pamela. He represented Bianca […]

Samuel Luke Fildes (1844 - 1927)

Sir Fildes was an artist and illustrator of magazines and books, including Dickens’ last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His first great public success was the painting Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward (1874), based on an earlier drawing that was published in the first edition of The Graphic. In addition to his […]

Jefferson Davis “Jeff” Milton (1861 - 1947)

Frontier Lawman. Jefferson Davis Milton was the youngest child of fourteen children of Florida Governor John Milton. He had a sad childhood being four-years-old when his father committed suicide after the Confederacy had lost the war. The governor left his wife Caroline Howze with several young children to face the hardships of living on their […]

Anselm Feuerbach (1829 - 1880)

German painter. He was one of the leading German artists of the mid-19th century school. Born in Speyer, Bavaria, the son of a well-known archaeologist, he was educated at Düsseldorf and München. In 1857 he moved to Rome where he met model Nanna Risi, who became his lover. In later years he worked in Vienna […]

Herbert John “Jack” Miller, Jr (1924 - 2009)

Attorney, Watergate Figure. After pioneering the field of “white collar law”, he served as counsel to President Nixon for over 20 years, and was responsible for negotiating his pardon. Raised in Minnesota by a family active in Republican politics, he enrolled at the University of Minnesota, but dropped out in his sophomore year to join […]

Bernardo Ferrándiz Badenes (1835 - 1885)

Artist. He was born in El Canyamelar, Valencia. He studied in Academia de San Carlos de Valencia and later, he moved to Madrid and Paris. He was friend of the painter Mariano Fortuny with who traveled to Morocco and Rome. He is remebered for his paintings, includes in realistic style, “El Viático a un Mendigo […]

Sidney Miles (1970 - 1952)

Murder Victim. He was the Police Constable who was shot by Christopher Craig, in the case which led to the execution of Derek Bentley. He was born at Eastry, near Sandwich in Kent, and had worked as a gardener before serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps between 1926 and 1929, when he joined the […]

Anton Dominik Fernkorn (1813 - 1878)

Sculptor. Born in Erfurt near Leipzig,  Anton studied sculpture under the sculptors Johann Baptist Stiglmaier and Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler in Munich, in 1836 to 1840. His first sculptural project, “Saint George and the Dragon” for the courtyard of the Montenuovo palace, attracted attention, and the Austrian government appointed him director of the imperial bronze foundry […]