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Founders and Pioneers

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  • Allen, Charlotte Marie Baldwin

  • Baird, Ninia Lilla [Ninnie]

  • Ballas, George Charles, Sr.

  • Bell, Paul Gervais, Jr.

  • Borden, John Pettit

  • Burt, Marie Anita

  • Bush, George Herbert Walker

  • Chandler, Asa Crawford

  • Cleveland, William Davis

  • Copeland, Murray Marcus

  • Creuzot, Percy Pennington, Jr. [Frenchy]

  • Fisher, Henry Francis

  • Florence, John Hicks

  • Fowler, Littleton

  • Geiselman, Samuel

  • Gillette, Henry Flavel

  • Goode, James Douglas [Jim]

  • Graves, Marvin Lee

  • Guseman, Tanny Charles

  • Halbouty, Michel Thomas

  • Harris, Dilue Rose

  • Harris, Jane Birdsall

  • Hermann, George Henry

  • Hines, Gerald Douglas

  • Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr.

  • Jones, Mary Smith

  • Keiller, Violet Hannah

  • Kessler, Henry

  • Kinkaid, Margaret Hunter

  • Laurenzo, María Ninfa Rodríguez

  • Lawson, Audrey Ann Hoffman

  • Levy, Abraham M.

  • Lusk, Mae Estella Selden

  • McGovern, John Philip [Jack]

  • Meyer, Leopold Leopold

  • Mitchell, George Phydias

  • Moursund, Walter Henrik

  • Muse, Marion Lamar

  • Oberholtzer, Edison Ellsworth

  • Pastoriza, Joseph Jay

  • Pellegrini, Snider de

  • Rice, William Marsh

  • Ride, Sally Kristen

  • Roberts, Jaromey Roy, Sr. [Jay]

  • Runge, Julia

  • Sakowitz, Simon

  • Smith, Obedience Fort

  • Steele, James Harlan

  • Taylor, Harvey Grant

  • Townes, Edgar E.

  • Vallbona, Carlos

  • Villaseñor, Lois Peña

  • Weingarten, Joseph

  • Young, Matilda Jane Fuller

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