Garden, James, Jr.

Garden bought drawing instruments and a large drafting board with money he earned at age eleven and started drawings of inventions that kept popping into his mind. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he tried to design an airplane that could submerge in the ocean like a submarine to fire its torpedoes. He joined the U.S. Navy before the end of World War II. After his tour of duty, he went to the University of Chicago, and graduated in 1951.