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Robert Paxton McCulloch was born May 11, 1911, in Missouri to Richard McCulloch and Mary Grace Beggs. [1] His grandfather, John I. Beggs, made his fortune by implementing Thomas Edison's electrical powerplants in cities around the world, manufacturing and selling electric trolley cars, and founding Milwaukee's public utility system.
In 1989, Jim McKelvey and a team of software engineers from Washington University, established Mira in St. Louis. Their inaugural product, a commercial document imaging system, was partly developed by their summer intern Jack Dorsey, [7] who would later rise to prominence as the co-founder of Twitter.
Sons of a bricklayer, the brothers established Wilks Masonry in 1995. They went on to found an early hydraulic fracking company, Frac Tech, in 2002, and eventually became billionaires. In 2011, they sold their 70% interest in Frac Tech for $3.5 billion. They reside in Cisco, Texas.
Altman was born on April 22, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois, [8] [9] into a Jewish family, [10] and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother is a dermatologist, and his father was a real estate broker. His mother is a dermatologist, and his father was a real estate broker.
The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry.It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges of operative masons during the Middle Ages, then the admission of lay members as "accepted" (a term reflecting the ceremonial "acception" process that made non-stone masons members of an operative ...
Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) [1] [2] [3] or simply Masonry includes various fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Freemasonry is the oldest ...
Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials.Founder George E. Bennett (October 6, 1852 – July 3, 1907), chartered the company as the Acme Pressed Brick Company on April 17 1891, in Alton, Illinois, [1] although the company's physical location has always been in Texas.
Co-founder and CEO of Water.org, founding member of the Global Water Challenge, named in the 2011 TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world [18] [19] Oz Yilmaz: 1970 Chief technology officer of GeoTomo LLC (2002–present), elected as an international member to the National Academy of Engineering (2022) [20] [21]