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Padmavathy Bandopadhyay was born in Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh in 1944. She ended up being her mother’s primary caregiver at the age of 4 due to her mother being bedridden with tuberculosis. She studied at DTEA in the Humanities. After graduation, she studied Science at the Delhi University the...
01/31/2019
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Mary Ball was born in Lively, Virginia back in 1708 to Joseph and his second wife Mary. Her father died when she was three and orphaned by twelve. She was placed under the guardianship of George Eskridge. Mary married Augustine when she was twenty-two by a “semi-arranged” marriage in 1731.Augusti...
01/30/2019
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Loammi Baldwin attended school in Woburn, Massachusetts. I do not have any information as to where he was born or who his parents were, so I’m going out on a limb and say he was born in America. He and his friend Benjamin Thompson walked to hear the lectures of Professor John Winthrop at Harvard ...
01/29/2019
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John H. Balsley was born in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania back in 1823 to George and Sarah. His father was a carpenter by trade, so it was only right that he followed in his father’s footsteps, which of course he did. In the borough of Connellsville in 1825, a new borough office was...
01/28/2019
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Ballington Booth was born in Brighouse, England back in 1857 to William and Catherine. As a teenager, you could find him preaching at the Salvation Army open-air meetings. At twenty-three he became a Colonel in the Salvation Army as a Training Officer. He was sent to Australia, the United States ...
01/27/2019
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Roland Sherwood was born in Santa Monica, California back in 1930 to Roland A. and Frances. His father taught Hawaiian steel guitar. He took up playing the guitar at age nine, by his early teens he was a member of the Musicians Union. Still in his early teens he began playing professionally in So...
01/26/2019
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Harvey Ross was born in Worcester, Massachusetts back in 1921 to Ernest and Christine. While in high school he apprenticed to a local sign painter later attending the Worcester Art Museum School studying in fine arts. He served in both the Asia and Pacific theaters of war during WWII. He was awar...
01/25/2019
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Earl Elmer was born in Columbia Heights, Minnesota back in 1924. He was a self-described “nerd”. Being self-described as such he invented a rudimentary electroshock weapon while in school to fend off bullies. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1948 for the University of ...
01/24/2019
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Robert C. Baker was born in Lansing, New York back in 1921. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell in 1943. He continued his education at the university’s College of Agriculture moving on to Penn State University earning his master’s degree and a doctorate at Purdue University.He traveled t...
01/23/2019
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Mary Morse was born in Bow, New Hampshire back in 1821 to Mark and Abigail. Her father was a strongly religious man from a Protestant Congregationalist background. It was once reported that he beat a cow to death with his walking stick for violating the Sabbath. He was also reported to be a stron...
01/22/2019
