Eugene Vincent Tracy grew up in Denver, Colorado, the son of a railroad tinner. By the age of 17 he was working as a railroad call boy in the small western town of Helper, Carbon County, Utah. Eugene known by his family and friends as Gene, developed a keen interest in movie theaters and by 1914-15 found work as a theater manager for the Lowell Airdome Theater in Lowell, Conchise County, Arizona later purchasing the theater itself and a year later selling it. Later, he became manager of the Central Theater in nearby Bisbee working for the Progressive Amusement Company. He would meet and later...

Matthew James McManus grew up on his father's farm in Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York. At an early age he helped his father with the daily chores on the farm and more importantly he learned about livestock and farming that would one day launch his career as a hog buyer in the Chicago Stock Yards. By the age of 16 he along with his family would leave the Plattsburgh area of New York and relocate to Center Township, Lake County, Indiana where he worked as a laborer on his father's farm there. While in Center Township he met another New York young woman by the name of Mary Jane Sweeney...

George Douglas Hunter participated in what became known as the Battles of Canal du Nord and Cambrai during the fall of 1918 which would ultimately lead to the defeat of Germany and the end of World War I. However, he would become severely wounded during the beginning stages of those battles which would affect him for the rest of his short lived life. Hunter was a native of the small rural community of Morewood, Dundas County, Ontario, Canada. He eventually left Morewood and began working as a bank clerk in Ottawa before he enlisted during the final year of the war. This then is the narrative...

James Amos a native of Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland played a role in the early colonization of British West Florida beginning in the late 1760s. He settled in Pensacola which was the capital of the newly established British province and was one of the first European-inhabited settlements in what would later become the United States of America. Amos worked as an agent for the large British planters and plantations in the area. James Amos would also serve as an Assemblyman representing Pensacola in the House of Assembly in 1771 through 1778. With the outbreak of the American Revolution, the...

Andrew Douglas, the son of a tenant farmer was born at Upper Senwick in Borgue Parish, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. The area where he grew up is rural and agricultural in nature. It is probable that Andrew is descended from James Douglas, the Fourth Earl of Morton who in 1581 was beheaded and his lands and titles were forfeited. Thus the succeeding generations of the family never again retained their titles and lands in Borgue and were forced to work as laborers on their former lands just to survive. The farm where Andrew Douglas grew up on was owned by the Earl of Selkirk and it was at Upper...

Edward Mays was a young Irishman residing in Ballinderry, County Antrim, Ireland when he decided to enlist in the Eighth or The King's Regiment of Foot in 1804. This regiment already had an illustrious history dating back to 1685 during the Monmouth Rebellion by the illegitimate son of King Charles II against King James II. Mays would marry in about 1810 and served for the next five years on the British frontier of Canada and fought in many battles during the War of 1812 against the Americans. Among these battles were Queenston Heights where he received a slight wound in the nose; Fort...