Joseph Keilberth (1908 - 1968)

Joseph Keilberth (April 19, 1908 – July 20, 1968) was a German conductor who specialized in opera. He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War II, he was appointed principal conductor of the […]

Joseph L. Musso (1880 - 1946)

Restaurateur, co-founder of Musso & Frank Grill.  Opened in 1919 with partner Frank Toulet, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous  celebrities from Hollywood’s elite, including movie stars, film directors and producers. In the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, the golden years in Hollywood, the waiters served Mary […]

Joseph L. Trueblood (1956 - 2003)

Joseph L. Trueblood (December 26, 1956 – June 13, 2003), a 46-year-old white male, was executed by lethal injection at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana on June 13, 2003. Trueblood was found guilty of the 1988 murder of Susan Bowsher, a 23-year-old white female, Ashlyn Bowsher, a 2½-year-old white female, and William […]

Joseph Lanza (1970 - 1968)

Oragnized Crime Figure. Known as “Socks” Lanza, he was a captain in the Frank Costello/Vito Genovese Organized Crime Family and held absolute power over the Fulton Fish Market, the largest fish distribution center on the East coast, in New York City. He founded the Sea Food Workers Union and the Fulton Market Watchmen and Patrol […]

Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822 - 1900)

Bertrand was a professor at the École Polytechnique and Collège de France. He was a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences and was its permanent secretary for twenty-six years. He was the son of physician Alexandre Jacques François Bertrand and the brother of archaeologist Alexandre Bertrand. His father died when Joseph was only nine […]

Joseph Lowthian Hudson (1846 - 1912)

Department store magnate. More commonly known as J.L. Hudson, as in J.L. Hudson’s Deptartment Store, he came to Detroit, Michigan in 1877, opening a men’s & boy’s clothing store in 1881 at age 35. In 1891, he built an 8-story store in downtown Detroit, which, together with a 1907 addition, was demolished in the 1920s. […]

Joseph M. “Joe” Coors, Sr (1917 - 2003)

Businessman. Brewery magnate and leading member of the Coors Brewing family and company founded by his grandfather. Worked at the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado, starting in 1946 as technical director, became Executive Vice President in 1975, President in 1977, and Chief Operating Officer from 1985-1987. Engaged in an intense conforation with labor over an […]

Joseph M. Barbara, Sr (1905 - 1959)

Organized Crime Figure. Immigrated to the United States in 1921 at age 16. He was soon working as a hitman for the Buffalo crime family in their Northern Pennsylvania territory. During the 1930s, Joseph was arrested for several murders, including the 1933 murder of rival bootlegger Sam Wichner. Wichner had gone to Barbara’s house for […]

Joseph Mack (1878 - 1946)

Italian born motion picture actor of the 1910s, 20s, 30s, and 40s.

Joseph Magliocco (1898 - 1963)

Organized Crime Figure. Took control of the Profaci Organized Crime Family after the death of his brother-in-law and boss of the family, Joseph Profaci on June 6, 1962. He ran the family until he died of a heart attack in December 1963. After his death Joseph Colombo became boss and the family still bears his […]

Joseph Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993)

Joseph Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish immigrants from Germany. He had a sister, Erna Mankiewicz (1901–1979), and a brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), who became a screenwriter. Herman also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941). At age four, Joseph Mankiewicz moved with his family […]

Joseph Masseria (1886 - 1931)

Gangster. Murdered by four mafia gunmen: Albert Anastasia, Vito Genovese, Joe Adonis and Benjamin Siegel. Joseph (Joe the Boss) Masseria’s Mafia Family was the most powerful Organized Crime Family in New York City from the start of prohibition until the out break of the Castellammarese war in 1930. During the Castellammarese war he came into […]

Joseph Medicine Crow (1913 - 2016)

Native American Historian, Author, Veteran, Elder. The last surviving war chief of Montana’s Crow Tribe, Joseph Medicine Crow was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. A member of the Crow Tribe’s Whistling Water clan, Chief Joseph was raised by his Grandfather, Yellowtail to be a warrior which he did during WWII. He became a […]

Joseph Medill (1823 - 1899)

Newspaper Publisher, Chicago Mayor. The founder of the Chicago “Tribune” newspaper, he was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in 19th century America. Originally a lawyer and newspaper publisher in Ohio, he became part-owner and editor of the Chicago Tribune in 1855. A staunch conservative, he was one of the founders of the […]

Joseph Mendelssohn (1770 - 1848)

Banker. Founder of Mendelssohn & Co., one of Europe’s preeminent financial institutions for over a century. Mendelssohn was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Unlike four of his five siblings, who converted to Christianity, Joseph remained faithful to Judaism his whole life. With aid from wealthy family connections he started […]

Joseph Michael Schenck (1878 - 1961)

Motion Pictures Executive. He founded Twentieth Century Pictures with Darryl F. Zanuck in 1932, which eventually became 20th Century Fox. The chairman of United Artists, he created its theater chain.  Family links:  Spouse:  Norma Talmadge (1895 – 1957)* *Calculated relationship

Joseph Naish (1896 - 1973)

Joseph Naish’s uncredited bit role in What Price Glory? (1926) launched his career in more than two hundred films. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the first for his role as Giuseppe in the movie Sahara (1943) in which he delivers one of the most moving speeches in any […]

Joseph Nash McDowell (1805 - 1868)

Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Served as a Colonel and surgeon in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After moving to St. Louis in 1840, he founded the medical department of Kemper College, later known as McDowell Medical College. In 1847 he erected the McDowell Medical College building, which became the medical department of […]

Joseph P. Bradley (1813 - 1892)

The son of Philo Bradley and Mercy Gardner Bradley, Bradley was born to humble beginnings in Berne, New York, and he was the oldest of 12 children.[4] He attended local schools and began teaching at the age of 16. In 1833, the Dutch Reformed Church of Berne advanced young Joseph Bradley $250 to study for […]

Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1888 - 1969)

Businessman, US Political Figure. Best known as Patriarch of the Kennedy Family and the father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of a saloonkeeper, Joseph Patrick Kennedy was a hardworking, ambitious boy who got into Harvard, was popular and did well academically, but was […]

Joseph Patterson Binns (1905 - 1980)

Entrepreneur, hotel executive. Binns rose from room clerk in an Atlantic City hotel (1928-1931), to vice-president of Hilton Hotels Corporoation (1946-1962), in which post he served as general manager of the Palmer House, Chicago (1946-1949), and executive vice-president and general manager of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York (1949-1961). He was also president and chief executive officer […]

Joseph Paul Franklin (1950 - 2013)

Franklin was born James Clayton Vaughn in Mobile, Alabama, to a poor family. He suffered severe physical abuse as a child. As early as high school, he had become interested first in evangelical Christianity, then Nazism, and later held memberships in both the National Socialist White People’s Party and the Ku Klux Klan and even […]

Joseph Petrosino (1860 - 1909)

NYPD Police officer. He was the subject of the film “Pay or Die.” Giuseppe Petrosino, an immigrant from Salerno who became the NYPD’s first Italian-American detective, waged a valiant battle against the Black Hand, a loosely-knit criminal organization that extorted money from Italian immigrants. He founded the Bomb Squad, the first unit of its kind […]

Joseph Prior (1970 - 1918)

Senior Fellow of Trinity College. (bio by: David Conway)

Joseph Schildkraut (1896 - 1964)

Joseph Schildkraut was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Erna (née Weinstein) and stage (and later motion picture) actor Rudolph Schildkraut. His family was Jewish. The younger Schildkraut moved to the United States in the early 1900s. He appeared in many Broadway productions. Among the plays that he starred in was a notable production […]

Joseph Schlitz (1831 - 1875)

Businessman, Beer magnate. Joseph Schlitz propelled the tiny Krug brewery of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, into the giant Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. Born in Mainz, Rheinhessen, Germany, he had a fair education with a four-year course in bookkeeping and had already acquired some practical business experience when he arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. There he landed […]

Joseph Schumpeter (1883 - 1950)

Joseph Schumpeter was born in Triesch, Habsburg Moravia (now Třešť in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary) in 1883 to Catholic German-speaking parents. His father owned a factory, but he died when Joseph was only four years old. In 1893, Joseph and his mother moved to Vienna. After attending school at the Theresianum, Schumpeter began […]

Joseph Siravo (1955 - 2021)

Joseph Siravo Joseph Siravo, best known for his roles in “The Sopranos” and “Jersey Boys,” passed away Sunday. He was 66. The “acclaimed actor, director, and teacher died on Sunday, April 11, after a long, courageous battle with colon cancer,” his family confirmed to The Post in a statement. “I was by his side when […]

Joseph Stephen “J.S.” Cullinan (1860 - 1937)

Founder of Texaco. Joseph Cullinan was born December 31, 1860 near Sharon, Pennsylvania. He started working in the oil fields of Pennsylvania at the age of fourteen, learning all aspects of the industry from the ground up. In 1882 he began work with a company offshoot of Standard Oil and worked there as a manager […]

Joseph V DeSantis (1909 - 1989)

Actor and sculptor. Joe DeSantis was born Joseph Vito Marcello DeSantis on 15 June 1909, to Italian immigrant parents in New York City. His father was a tailor and his mother worked in a paper flower factory. DeSantis attended public schools in New York City, and then  worked his way through the City College of […]