Frederick Bockstahler
The year 1926 was when Germany joined the League of Nations, Adolf Hitler began strengthening his control over the Nazi Party, and Joseph Goebbels became the party’s chief propagandist. It…
Read MoreFred Melvin Short
John and Anna Short were raising four children, one of them a teenager, by the time Fred was born. Twin boys followed in 1931 but one of them died at…
Read MoreJohn Oliver Guthrie
The Guthries were from western Illinois but John’s father, Fred, pursued post-graduate work at Rush Medical College in Chicago and became a physician. Unfortunately the patients shared their diseases with the…
Read MoreJames J. Neely
Jim was the last of five children in his family, all Philadelphia natives. His childhood wasn’t a comfortable one. He was closest to his brother Carl who was two years…
Read MoreWilliam Frederick Hough, Jr.
William’s father was a World War I veteran who has his own Notable life story, found here. The junior William, or “Bill,” knew only one home address during his short…
Read MoreWilliam Charles Bauman
The Bauman family moved from Philadelphia to a little neighborhood in nearby Delaware County called Lester. That was in 1913, a year after their only son, William (“Bill”) was born. …
Read MoreWilliam J. Porter
Bill was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, between Altoona and Harrisburg, where his parents, William and Helen, grew up. He was their only child, and within a few months of…
Read MoreEvelyn Hope George
Home for the George family in the early 1900s was New Castle, Pennsylvania, close to the Ohio border near Youngstown. It was a one-industry town, and Evelyn’s father worked at…
Read MoreElmer William McAlpin
There were seven boys born to Samuel and Louise McAlpin during the first quarter of the 20th century. Their father was born in Scotland and was a coppersmith at the…
Read MoreJoseph Shealy
It wouldn’t be right to not recognize as “notable” someone who served our country in a foreign war zone just because there aren’t enough facts to compile a life story.…
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