People

Robert de Mowbray

A Norman, was Earl of Northumbria from 1086 until 1095.
Orderic Vitalis gives the following description of Robert de Mowbray: "Powerful, rich, bold, fierce in war, haughty, he despised his equals and, swollen with vanity, disdained to obey his superiors. He was of great stature, strong, swarthy and hairy. Daring and crafty, stern and grim, he was given more to meditation than speech, and in conversation scarce ever smiled".

Venture Smith

African-born slave who eventually bought his freedom and wrote the autobiography, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself.
Birth name: Broteer Furro
c. 1729 – 1805

R. A. Lafferty

Raphael Aloysius "R. A." Lafferty (November 7, 1914 – March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, Lafferty also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, a history book, and several novels of historical fiction.
His writings, both topically and stylistically, are not easy to categorize. Plot is frequently secondary to other elements of Lafferty's writing; while this style has resulted in a loyal cult following, it causes some readers to give up attempting to read his work.

Assata Shakur

American political activist who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA).
In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973.
In 1979, while serving a life sentence for murder, Shakur escaped the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township, NJ.
She surfaced in Cuba in 1984, where she was granted political asylum. Shakur has lived in Cuba since, despite US government efforts to have her returned.
She has been on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list since 2013 as Joanne Deborah Chesimard and was the first woman to be added to this list.

Stephen Findeisen aka Coffeezilla

Has made crypto sleuthing a full-time gig.
Played a role in Sam Bankman-Fried's downfall, and says he got the FTX CEO to admit to fraud.

Wabakinine

By the mid 1790s, Wabakinine was the head chief of all the Mississaugas along the western coast of Lake Ontario.
In 1796 after travelling to York, Upper Canada to sell salmon, Wabakinine camped with his band on the peninsula. In the middle of the night, a member of the Queen's York Rangers, Private Charles McEwan (or McCuen), accompanied by two other men, attempted to pull Wabakinine's sister from her bed. Earlier that evening, McEwan had offered her rum and a dollar to sleep with him. Intoxicated, Wabakinine tried to defend his sister before he was viciously beaten with a rock by McEwan. The men proceeded to beat Wabakinine's wife leaving them both with fatal injuries near what is now St. Lawrence Market. Wabakinine died the following day and his wife the day after.

Gideon Lincecum

April 22, 1793 - November 28, 1874
American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist. Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies.
Lincecum had good relations with Native Americans as he explored the wilderness in the American South.
He was son of Hezekiah and Sally (Hickman) Lincecum, and was born in Warren County, Georgia.
Lincecum was self-educated.
He spent his boyhood principally in the company of Muskogees.

Henry Plummer

Henry Plummer (1832–1864) was a prospector, lawman, and outlaw in the American West in the 1850s and 1860s, who was known to have killed several men.

Philander Prescott

September 17, 1801 – August 10, 1862
In 1823, he married Na-he-no-Wenah (Spirit of the Moon), also known as Mary Ke E Hi, daughter of Man-Who-Flies, a Dakota subchief who lived near Lake Calhoun.
During his life on the frontier, he served as a government interpreter of the Dakota language (including for the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux). He worked as a miner, a trapper, and on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. He also ran trading posts, in several locations, and farmed.

James Le Tort

c. 1675 – c. 1742
Pennsylvania fur trader and a coureur des bois active in the early 18th century.
Le Tort arrived in Quebec with his parents, who were Huguenot refugees, in 1686, and settled in eastern Pennsylvania.

Hassan Bennet

Hassan Bennett of West Philadelphia spent 4,606 days in prison for a homicide and related crimes that he did not commit. Failed by an antiquated criminal justice system, Bennett took his case into his own hands, studied the law, filed his own legal briefs, and – ultimately – represented himself in two trials. On May 6, 2019, a jury found him innocent after just 81-minutes of deliberation.

Cecil Garland Mouland

Born 27 Sep 1893 in Doting Cove, Newfoundland
He survived the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster.
His story was told in the book, Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 by Cassie Brown.
He passed away in 1978.

Francois Xavier Daigle

Early resident of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Click here for text from a post on the Facebook page You Know You're From Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, When???

Moon Landrieu

Moon Edwin Landrieu (born Maurice Edwin Landrieu; July 23, 1930 – September 5, 2022) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978
Landrieu was born in Uptown New Orleans to Joseph Geoffrey Landrieu and Loretta Bechtel.[3] Bechtel was of German descent, with grandparents who came to Louisiana from Alsace and Prussia.[4] Joseph was born in 1892 in Mississippi, the son of Frenchman Victor Firmin Landrieu and Cerentha Mackey, the out-of-wedlock child of a black woman and an unknown father.

James Zhong

James "Jimmy" Zhong is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014.
This remains the largest theft of Bitcoin in US history.
Zhong, who was involved in the early development of bitcoin, had found an error on Silk Road that allowed him to withdraw more funds than what was initially deposited.

Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said[a] (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian American academic, literary critic and political activist.
A professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of postcolonial studies.
Born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran.

Wardell Quezergue

American composer, arranger, record producer and bandleader, known among New Orleans musicians as the "Creole Beethoven".
Born in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans into a musical family of creole descent.

Joseph Pierce

1842 – January 3, 1916
Chinese American soldier who fought in the American Civil War

Nels Moxness

Piece of shit "businessman" from Southern Ontario that bought up a bunch of "underperforming properties" in the Sault and Sudbury. Link to article.

Thomas Bailey Marquis

December 19, 1869 – March 22, 1935
American self-taught historian and ethnographer who wrote about the Plains Indians and other subjects of the American frontier. He had a special interest in the destruction of George Armstrong Custer's battalion at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which became his lifelong obsession.

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