John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
Emily Warren Roebling was an engineer known for her contributions over a period of more than 10 years to the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease and became bedridden. She served as a liaison and supervisor of construction through communicating between her husband and on-site personnel. Her husband was the chief engineer during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which had been designed by his late father, John A. Roebling.
USS Sequoia is the former presidential yacht used during the administrations of Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter; setting a cost-cutting example, Carter ordered her sold in 1977.
Florence Smythe was a stage actress who was in silent motion pictures from 1915 to 1917.
The MV Savarona is the presidential yacht of the Republic of Turkey. She was the largest in the world when launched February 28, 1931, and remains, with a length of 136 m (446 ft), one of the world’s longest. Although owned by the Government of Turkey, she had been briefly leased out to Turkish businessman Kahraman Sadıkoğlu. However, upon orders of the Turkish Government her lease was terminated and she reverted to the Turkish State. The first time she was used again for an official reception was in March 2015.
USS Mizpah (PY-29) was a United States Navy patrol yacht. Constructed in 1926, the vessel was constructed as the pleasure yacht Savarona. In 1929 it was renamed Allegro and then Mizpah for use on the Great Lakes. The vessel was acquired by the United States Navy in 1942 and converted to a warship and commissioned the same year. Mizpah served as a convoy escort along the United States East Coast before becoming a school ship in 1944. Following the end of the war, the vessel returned to private operation in 1946 until 1967 when Mizpah was laid up with a broken crankshaft at Tampa, Florida. An attempt to save the ship proved futile and Mizpah was scuttled off the coast of Florida as an artificial reef in 1968. The wreck is now a popular dive site.
Thomas McCall Cadwalader was an American who trained to be a lawyer but made his career in the military, retiring as a major general.
DeArmond, Ashmead & Bickley was an early-20th-century architecture and landscape architecture firm based in Philadelphia. It specialized in Colonial Revival, Beaux-Arts, and English Arts & Crafts-style buildings, especially suburban houses.
The National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba was an early professional Negro baseball league that operated on the East Coast of the United States from 1907 to 1910.
Olive Frances Wyndham Meysenberg was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Bettina Borrmann Wells was a Bavarian-born English suffragette who toured the United States as an organizer and lecturer.
Edna May Spooner, sometimes spelled as Edna Mae Spooner, was an American actress, playwright, and vaudeville performer.
Amy Ricard was an American actress and suffragist.
Adelaide Dorn WallersteinMcConnell was an American translator, medical doctor, lawyer, and clubwoman, based in New York City.
Caroline Fraser Manice was an American golfer.
Andrée Mégard, was a French actress and stage beauty.
Ida Grace Brooks Hunt was an American singer and actress.
Georgine von Januschofsky was a Moravian actress and singer.
Harriet Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke was an American writer.
