Her father served on the board of trustees for Rust State College. It was then Ida received her start with education. At the age of 16, Ida had to drop out of school because of the tragedy that struck her family. Ida’s mother, father, and one of her sibling died from a breakout with yellow fever. Which left Ida to take care of her other siblings.
Alice has been married and divorced twice and has two grown children, Kim (32) and Jonathan (30) from her first marriage. Alice grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood just south of Phoenix. Her parents John and Mary have owned a small business in downtown Phoenix for the last 40 years. Her father spent long hours at the family business and had little interaction with the children. Child rearing was primarily left up to Alice’s mother, Mary.
Paul Leroy Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, the fifth and last child of Maria Louisa Bustill and William Drew Robeson. During these early years the Robeson's experienced both family and financial losses. At the age of six Paul and his siblings, William, Reeve, Ben and Marian suffered the death of their mother in a household fire. This was followed a few years later with their father's loss of his Princeton pastorate. After moving first to Westfield, the family finally settled in Somerville, New Jersey, in 1909, where William Robeson was appointed pastor of St. Thomas AME Zion Church.
Mannix came from a background of farming, along with his 3 brothers and one sister who grew on to do medicine, law and farming, unfortunately he was a brother of 8 with only 4 siblings remaining the 4 of them died as babies not knowing how life was like. His mother was the former Ellen Cagney and his father, Timothy Mannix, was a prosperous tenant farmer. The influence that was brought upon
Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 30, 1966. His father, Jimmy Kirkpatrick, abondoned his family when Tyson was only 2, leaving his mother, Lorna Smith Tyson, to care for him along with Rodney, his older brother, and Denise, his younger sister. The family lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant until their financial burdens necessitated a move to Brownsville when Tyson was 10 years old. Six years later, Tyson’s mother died. Tyson has been quoted saying; “I never say my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something.
General Dwight David Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was a General, U.S. President And a Journalist. He had a nickname and it was Ike, He was born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. His parents were: David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower, He was the third of his parents seven sons they had. Dwight was a year and a half old; his family moved back to Abilene so David could take a better job at his brother-in-law's creamery, His younger brother had currently died when they were in Abilene from. Although his younger brother might have died when he was only 6-years-old, He still had happy memories from baseball and football in Abilene High School.
1879 was the last year he was governor. In 1880 he got remarried, After Harriet Espy’s death, To Florence Steele Martin of the State of Kentucky. They did not have any children together. From 1879 till him death, He served in the US senate. Zebulon was a very hard worker.
Jesse James Criminal or “Robin hood” Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847 in Western Missouri. Jesse’s father, a Baptist minister, and his mother Zerelda Cole. Jesse had one brother Frank James and other half and step siblings. Jesse’s father died when he was a young boy and his mother remarried more than once. When Jesse was 17 he married a young girl, who was also his first cousin, named Zerelda Mimms.
The overseer hit her in the head with a heavyweight rock, which put Harriet in a coma. It took months for her to get better, and for the rest of her life, Harriet suffered from blackouts. In 1844, Harriet married a free black man named John Tubman. (She was born Araminta Ross; she later changed her first name to Harriet, after
Dubois was the Author of 21 books, and several newspaper articles. Dubois’s had a pleasant childhood; his lineage was of mixed race his mother black and his father mulatto. In childhood Dubois witnessed a feud between his dad Alfred and Alfred’s in laws. Alfred was considered by his in laws to be “too good looking, too white” (Wolters, pg.23). Dubois’s father left his mom after three years of marriage.