Charles Emile Heil (1870 - 1950)

Artist. Specialized on painting and etching of birds. Today his work can be seen in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Art in Washington DC. (bio by: Laurie)

Adolph Frederick William Arnold (1849 - 1912)

Industrialist. He co-founded the Schwinn Bicycle Company. Born in Germany, he immigrated to the United States as a child. He was educated in Chicago, Illinois, and soon entered the small meat-packing business founded by his father. Under Adolph’s guidance, Arnold Brothers Packing grew into one of the largest firms of its kind. The Arnold family […]

Henry Heerup (1907 - 1993)

Artist. Reknown as a painter and sculptor. Born and lived in Copenhagen and outskirts. His art is naive much like the illustration on his tombstone (which he made himself). Even though he didn’t have any relation to the abstract expressionism in his painting, he belonged to the circle around Cobra. He was the founder and […]

George Buchanan Armstrong (1822 - 1871)

United States Postal Official. While serving as assistant Postmaster of Chicago, Illinois, he proposed to send mail via the railway as a means of faster delivery. In 1864 Postmaster General Montgomery Blair first experimented, then implemented this practice. It became the staple of long distance mail delivery before being outstripped by air freight shipping. George […]

Jeanne Hébuterne (1898 - 1920)

Artist. She is best known as the model and common-law wife of artist Amedeo Modigliani. Born to a Catholic family in Paris, Jeanne was introduced to the artistic community in Montparnasse by her brother, an aspiring painter. A beautiful young woman with considerable talent for drawing, she modeled for artist Tsuguharu Foujita before pursuing her […]

Simeon Brooks Armour (1828 - 1899)

Businessman. One of 5 Armours who developed Armor and Company Meat Packing. In 1871 John Plankington and Phillip Armour opened a small slaughterhouse in Kansas City. The company already had two large packinghouses, one in Milwaukee and one in Chicago.  John Plankington retired from Plankington & Armour in 1885 and Armour Brothers was organized.  Phillip […]

Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850 - 1917)

Sculptor, Educator. Louis-Philippe Hébert, son of Théophile Hébert and Julie Bourgeois, was baptized on February 3, 1850 at Saint Norbert, Arthabaska, Québec, Canada. The French Canadian left home in 1869 and spent a year in Rome. Upon his return, he apprenticed with Quebec sculptor Napoléon Bourassa. He stayed for six years, and his art soon […]

Philip Danforth Armour, I (1832 - 1901)

Businessman. He was born in Stockbridge, New York, where his parents were farmers. When he was 19, he left for California to join the gold rush, where he started a business building sluices for use in the gold mining enterprise. Around 1856, he took his profits from the sluice business and relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, […]

John Heartfield (1891 - 1968)

Photographer, inventor of photo-montage which he often used for satirical purposes. (bio by: David Conway)

George Peter Alexander Healy (1813 - 1894)

Artist. Primarily an American portrait painter, he is best remembered for his portraits of US presidents from John Quincy Adams to Ulysses S. Grant painted for the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and other prominent figures of the 1800s. The oldest child of an Irish merchant marine captain, his father died when he […]

Kirkland B. Armour (1854 - 1901)

Businessman. One of 5 Armours who developed Armor and Company Meat Packing. In 1871 John Plankington and Phillip Armour opened a small slaughterhouse in Kansas City. The company already had two large packinghouses, one in Milwaukee and one in Chicago.  Born in Stockbridge, New York, Kirkland B. Armour and his brother, Charles, came to Kansas […]

Martin Johnson Heade (1819 - 1904)

Artist. Born and reared in Lumberville, a small rural community near Doylestown, in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania. He was the eldest son in the large family of Joseph Cowell Heed, the owner of a farm and a lumber mill. The youth’s first lessons in art were provided locally by Edward Hicks and probably also by Thomas […]

Jonathan Ogden Armour (1863 - 1927)

Businessman, Major League Baseball Team Owner. The oldest son of Phillip Danforth Armour, who founded Armour and Co. J Ogden. Armour was  born a few years after his father first established a meatpacking partnership and grain company in Milwaukee. By the end of the Civil War the Armour’s had become millionaires due to Philip’s success […]

Sir George Hayter (1792 - 1871)

Artist, specializing in historical subjects, and a favorite of Queen Victoria.

Herman Ossian Armour (1837 - 1901)

Businessman. He was a co-founder of the meatpacking firm of Armour & Company. He was born the seventh of eight children whose parents were farmers and little is known of his early life. In 1865 he partnered with John Plankinton and established the New York syndicate of Armour Meats under the name Armour, Plankinton & […]

Nicholas Hawksmoor (1970 - 1736)

Architect, originally assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and himself the designer of some of London’s finest churches, and of the West towers of Westminster Abbey. Also the subject of an unusual novel by Peter Ackroyd. The letters PMSL on his tomb have not been adequately expelained. (bio by: Find A Grave)

Charles W. Armour (1857 - 1927)

Businessman. He was one of the five Armours who developed the meatpacking firm of Armor & Company. He was born in Stockbridge, New York, where his parents were farmers and little is known of his early life. His brother, Phillip Danforth Armour and associate John Plankington opened a small slaughterhouse in Kansas City in 1871. […]

Robert Havell (1793 - 1878)

Artist. An engraver and painter, he engraved plates to John J. Audubon’s Birds of America. Painted and sketched in the New York area around the Hudson River. (bio by: Laurie)  Family links:  Spouse:  Amelia Jane Edington Havell (1807 – 1878)* *Calculated relationship

Andrew Watson Armour (1829 - 1892)

Businessman. One of 5 Armours who developed Armor and Company Meat Packing. In 1871 John Plankington and Phillip Armour opened a small slaughterhouse in Kansas City. The company already had two large packinghouses, one in Milwaukee and one in Chicago. John Plankington retired from Plankington and Armour in 1885 and Armour Brothers was organized. Phillip […]

Havank (1904 - 1964)

Author, Journalist, Translator.  Havank was the pen-name of H.F. (Hans) van der Kallen, Dutch writer of some 30 very popular crime-novels and stories, featuring French police-officers Bruno Silvère and Charles C.M. Carlier, better known in Dutch as  de Schaduw‚‚ ( the Shadow) as principal characters. Furthermore he  translated some 45 novels, mainly of fellow crime […]

Elizabeth Arden (1878 - 1966)

Businesswoman. She is remembered for founding what is known as Elizabeth Arden, Incorporated, a US cosmetics empire. She was largely responsible for establishing makeup as proper and appropriate, even necessary, for a ladylike image, when before makeup had often been associated with lower classes and such professions as prostitution. Her products targeted middle-age and plain […]

Jimmy Hatlo (1898 - 1963)

Cartoonist. He is best remembered for his cartoon strip “They’ll Do It Every Time” that ran from 1929 until his death in 1963. Born James Cecil Hatlow, his father was a printer who immigrated from the Orkney Islands of Scotland. His family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was a young boy and growing […]

Thomas Hastings (1860 - 1929)

Architect. He studied at Columbia University and graduated from the Beaux Arts College, Paris in 1884. Returning to New York, he began working for McKim, Mead and White,  and formed an important firm with John Merven Carrere in 1886. Their most famous work is the New York Public Library,  opened in 1911.  His other designs […]

Robert Archer (1794 - 1877)

Businessman. An Iron manufacturer, he served as an United States Army physician stationed at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and Fort King, Florida, from 1813 to 1839. He became superintendent of the Armory Iron Company in Richmond in 1848, and in 1859, with his son-in-law, Joseph Reid Anderson, merged that company with the Tredegar Iron Company to […]

Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935)

Impressionist Painter. Born in his family home in a suburb of Boston in 1859. His father Frederick was a cutlery merchant and descended from a long line of New Englanders, while his mother Rosa was a native of Maine. Childe Hassam demonstrated an interest in art early in his life. He had his first lessons […]

Rocky Aoki (1938 - 2008)

Rocky Aoki once said that he had “three kids from three different women at exactly the same time.” He found out about the seventh with the third woman when he was sued for paternity. In 2005, Rocky sued four of his children (Grace, Kevin, Kyle, and Echo) for an alleged attempt to take control of […]

Machiko Hasegawa (1920 - 1992)

Cartoonist. Born in Taku, Japan, the daughter of a mining engineer. Her father died when she was 14, and the family moved to Tokyo where her mother enrolled her as a student to artist Suiho Tagawa, who was later called the grandfather of manga. With the coming of the Second World War, the family fled […]

Charles Ross “C. R.” Anthony (1884 - 1976)

Businessman. Founder of the Anthony’s chain of department stores. An orphan of a Tennessee farming family, Anthony started his career in retail with the J. C. Penney Company. In 1918 he partnered with the J. P. Martin Company in Cleveland, OK. Four years later he liquidated his shares in Martin and opened his own company […]

Hitoshi Hasegawa (1970 - 1970)

Western-style painter. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Walter Hubert Annenberg (1908 - 2002)

Businessman. As a media magnate he controlled important properties in the newspaper, television, and magazine industries. Perhaps most significantly, he was responsible for the creation of “TV Guide”, the largest circulation weekly magazine in the world, a magazine central to understanding television in America. He was also very active in the arena of American politics, […]