People

Leonard Bleeker was commissioned an officer in the Continental Army in 1775. He served through the entirety of the American Revolution. As the new nation began, he worked in finance, laying the groundwork for the modern stock exchange.

Jay Cooke was a Philadelphia banker and financier who assisted other Northern businessmen to finance the Union war effort through the sale of promissory notes to wealthy investors. In 1870, his firm also helped fund construction of the Northern Pacific Railway.

Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American woman to be a professional engineer. In 1952, she was one of the 40 founding members of Lockheed's secret Advanced Development Program, known as the Skunk Works. Much of the work she did there remains classified.

A biography and photograph of Flight 93's passenger Donald Freeman Greene.

Melvin D. Walker was the third and youngest son of Maggie Lena Walker. He attended Shaw University in Raleigh N.C. and then worked for his mother at the St. Luke Bank & Trust Co. and Independent Order of St. Luke in Richmond, Virginia.

Isaac Roosevelt was a sugar merchant whose opposition to British trade laws and their reduction of profits drove him to the Revolutionary cause. Isaac served in the New York State Assembly and was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1788. He was the great-great-grandfather of Franklin D. Roosevelt.