Historic Bios
Lou Gehrig was born in New York City in 1903. He was a natural athlete and excelled in baseball and football in high school. He was offered a football scholarship to Columbia University, but chose to pursue baseball instead. Gehrig began his professional career with the New York Yankees in 1923. He quickly established himself […]
James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a sickly child and did not receive much formal education. He was tutored at home by his father and later attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He graduated in 1771 and returned to Virginia. Madison married Dolley Payne […]
Marie Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy […]
Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma in 1931. He was a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968. Mantle was one of the most popular players of his era and is considered one of the greatest players in baseball history. Mantle was a three-time MVP and a seven-time World […]
Baseball has been around for centuries, with the first recorded game taking place in England in 1749. However, the game truly began to take shape in the United States during the early 19th century. By the mid-1800s, baseball was being played by amateurs and professionals all across the country. The Civil War and the rise […]
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. His family had moved there from Italy 14 years earlier. Napoleon was the fourth of eleven children. He had two older sisters, Letizia and Maria Anna (nicknamed “Pauline”). Napoleon’s mother, Letizia, was a strong and determined woman who had […]
Dwight Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas on October 14, 1890, the third of seven children. His parents were of German and Swiss descent. When Eisenhower was two, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where he grew up and attended school. Eisenhower’s father, David, was a college-educated engineer who worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. […]
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaws region between the borders of North and South Carolina. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson. Jackson’s father died shortly before his birth. Jackson grew up with his mother and two brothers in the backwoods of Carolina. Jackson had little formal education […]
Winston Churchill was born in 1874 to an aristocratic family with a long history of public service. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a prominent politician in the Conservative Party, while his mother, Jennie Jerome, came from an American family of wealth and social prominence. Churchill was educated at the prestigious Harrow School and then […]
Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, to Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. Her father owned two grocery stores and was active in local politics, serving as alderman and mayor. Her mother was a homemaker. Thatcher won a scholarship to study chemistry at Oxford University, where she earned a degree in […]