Per his obituary:
"... In 1954 he started the General Typewriter Co. that evolved into Shipman Ward which distributed office machine equipment worldwide. Upon retirement to Vero Beach, FL he was able ...
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1/31/2025
1/31/2025
Per his obituary:
"... In 1954 he started the General Typewriter Co. that evolved into Shipman Ward which distributed office machine equipment worldwide. Upon retirement to Vero Beach, FL he was able ...
1/31/2025
1st Lt. Daniel Merriman (USA)
Merriman was an American Congregational minister and art collector. With his wife, Helen Bigelow Merriman, he was a cofounder of the Worcester Art Museum and served a...
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12/29/2024
1st Lt. Daniel Merriman (USA)
Merriman was an American Congregational minister and art collector. With his wife, Helen Bigelow Merriman, he was a cofounder of the Worcester Art Museum and served a...
12/29/2024
Philip Louis Moen
Philip Moen was known around the country (and probably the world) as the Barbed-Wire King . Moen, born in 1824, had married the daughter of Ichabod Washburn in 1846. Washb...
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8/30/2024
Philip Louis Moen
Philip Moen was known around the country (and probably the world) as the Barbed-Wire King . Moen, born in 1824, had married the daughter of Ichabod Washburn in 1846. Washb...
8/30/2024
Ichabod Washburn
IWashburn was an American Congregational deacon and industrialist from Worcester County, Massachusetts. His financial endowments led to the naming of Washburn College, now Wa...
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8/30/2024
Ichabod Washburn
IWashburn was an American Congregational deacon and industrialist from Worcester County, Massachusetts. His financial endowments led to the naming of Washburn College, now Wa...
8/30/2024
Gilbert Sandford Vernam (April 3, 1890 – February 7, 1960) was a Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1914 graduate and AT&T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented an additive polyalphabetic stream cip...
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8/30/2024
Gilbert Sandford Vernam (April 3, 1890 – February 7, 1960) was a Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1914 graduate and AT&T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented an additive polyalphabetic stream cip...
8/30/2024
Arthur Willard French
FRENCH passed away on May 27 at his home in Worcester, Massachusetts, following a long illness.
Arthur, son of Willard and Elmira (Holt) French was born in Battle Creek, Mic...
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8/30/2024
Arthur Willard French
FRENCH passed away on May 27 at his home in Worcester, Massachusetts, following a long illness.
Arthur, son of Willard and Elmira (Holt) French was born in Battle Creek, Mic...
8/30/2024
Henry 'Harry' Worcester Smith
Henry 'Harry' Worcester Smith, American sportsman, engineer, financier, businessman and inventor.
Background
Smith, Harry Worcester was born on November 5, 1865 in ...
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7/21/2024
Henry 'Harry' Worcester Smith
Henry 'Harry' Worcester Smith, American sportsman, engineer, financier, businessman and inventor.
Background
Smith, Harry Worcester was born on November 5, 1865 in ...
7/21/2024
Mok Kai Yan was a Chinese electrical engineer and diplomat. He served as Vice Consul of China in Manila from 1929 to 1942, his death.
Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Mi...
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5/9/2023
Mok Kai Yan was a Chinese electrical engineer and diplomat. He served as Vice Consul of China in Manila from 1929 to 1942, his death.
Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Mi...
5/9/2023
Chapin Higgins (December 7, 1872 – September 10, 1948) was an American lawyer, inventor, and businessman.Early lifeAldus Higgins was born December 7, 1872, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Milton P. Higg...
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4/29/2021
Chapin Higgins (December 7, 1872 – September 10, 1948) was an American lawyer, inventor, and businessman.Early lifeAldus Higgins was born December 7, 1872, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Milton P. Higg...
4/29/2021
T. Whitcomb (February 21, 1921 – October 13, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer noted for his significant contributions to the science of aerodynamics.Whitcomb was born in Evanston, Illinois b...
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9/6/2016
T. Whitcomb (February 21, 1921 – October 13, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer noted for his significant contributions to the science of aerodynamics.Whitcomb was born in Evanston, Illinois b...
9/6/2016
Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927. To some...
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9/6/2016
Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927. To some...
9/6/2016
Stevens Lawton (May 16, 1900 – February 26, 1993) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army and served as the Army's Comptroller.Early lifeLawton was born on May 16, 1900, in Newport, Rhode Is...
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9/6/2016
Stevens Lawton (May 16, 1900 – February 26, 1993) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army and served as the Army's Comptroller.Early lifeLawton was born on May 16, 1900, in Newport, Rhode Is...
9/6/2016
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched hi...
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10/16/2008
9/6/2016
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched hi...
9/6/2016
William Herbert Hobbs, Ph.D. (Worcester, Mass., July 2, 1864 – Ann Arbor, MI, January 1, 1953) was an American geologist.Background and educationWilliam Herbert Hobbs, geologist and leader of four expe...
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9/6/2016
William Herbert Hobbs, Ph.D. (Worcester, Mass., July 2, 1864 – Ann Arbor, MI, January 1, 1953) was an American geologist.Background and educationWilliam Herbert Hobbs, geologist and leader of four expe...
9/6/2016
Inventor. He built one of the first successful gasoline-powered automobiles. Also in 1886, he invented a small vapor thermostat used on natural gas. He died from a severe flu attack at age 67. (bio by:...
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9/6/2016
Inventor. He built one of the first successful gasoline-powered automobiles. Also in 1886, he invented a small vapor thermostat used on natural gas. He died from a severe flu attack at age 67. (bio by:...
9/6/2016
Arthur Atwater Kent Sr. was an American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia. In 1921, he patented the modern form of the automobile ignition coil.Arthur Kent was born on Dec...
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10/16/2015
9/6/2016
Arthur Atwater Kent Sr. was an American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia. In 1921, he patented the modern form of the automobile ignition coil.Arthur Kent was born on Dec...
9/6/2016
Woodman Higgins (September 1, 1874 – October 19, 1961) was an American businessman and owner of the Higgins Armory Museum. & personal lifeJohn Woodman Higgins was born to Milton Prince Higgins (Decembe...
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9/6/2016
Woodman Higgins (September 1, 1874 – October 19, 1961) was an American businessman and owner of the Higgins Armory Museum. & personal lifeJohn Woodman Higgins was born to Milton Prince Higgins (Decembe...
9/6/2016
Grenfill Washburn (January 28, 1857 – May 25, 1928) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.BiographyHe was born in Worcester on January 28, 1857. Washburn graduat...
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1/20/2010
9/6/2016
Grenfill Washburn (January 28, 1857 – May 25, 1928) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.BiographyHe was born in Worcester on January 28, 1857. Washburn graduat...
9/6/2016
ANDREWS, FRANK ARLAND - Captain, US Navy (Retired) Captain Frank A. Andrews was born in Newport, Rhode Island on June 30, 1921 and died at the age of 92 from natural causes on February 22, 2014 in Anna...
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7/10/2016
7/10/2016
ANDREWS, FRANK ARLAND - Captain, US Navy (Retired) Captain Frank A. Andrews was born in Newport, Rhode Island on June 30, 1921 and died at the age of 92 from natural causes on February 22, 2014 in Anna...
7/10/2016
. Akin Todd, a Representative from Missouri; born in New York, N.Y., July 5, 1947; B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., 1971; M.Div., Covenant Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1984; United...
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4/13/2016
. Akin Todd, a Representative from Missouri; born in New York, N.Y., July 5, 1947; B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass., 1971; M.Div., Covenant Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1984; United...
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