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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Delmar was born in Providence, Kentucky on February 17, 1918. His parents were Lee and Tobitha Mitchell and he had one sibling, James. He graduated from DuSable High School in Chicago in 1936 and rema...

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Vernell Melson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Vernell Melson was born on April 16, 1916. His parents were David and Lillian Melson. Vernell was the couple’s fifth son of thirteen children. At an early age, Vernell confessed Christ and joined St. ...

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Oswaldo Mestre Jr

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Oswaldo Mestre Jr. is the Director of the Division of Citizen Services for the City of Buffalo and serves as the City’s ombudsman. Appointed by Mayor Byron W. Brown on January 2006, Director Mestre ha...

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Mark Gaston Pearce

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Mark Gaston Pearce has dedicated his legal career to the practice of labor and employment law. Born in Brooklyn, New York of Jamaican heritage, Mr. Pearce was raised in a home where the importance of ...

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Adam Perry

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Adam W. Perry is an equity partner with the largest law firm based in Western New York, Hodgson Russ LLP. With more than 230 attorneys, the firm is listed in the AmLaw 200. Established 1817, it is amo...

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Robert Howard Jr

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Robert B. Howard Jr. was born on March 29, 1916 in Barnesville, Georgia to Robert and Annie Howard. He had one brother Keith L. Howard. When Robert was one year old, his family moved to Chattanooga, T...

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Samuel Molson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Samuel D. Molson was born on October 28, 1810 in York, Pennsylvania. His parents were Samuel and Mary Ann (Anderson) Molson. His siblings were George, Sally, William, John, James, Mary Ann (Molson) De...

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Patrick Freeman

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Sports Talk Show Host, Entrepreneur, Activist, writer, and currently the District Deputy Grand Master of the 7th Masonic District of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the State of New Yor...

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James Freeman MD

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

In 1974 when James Freeman, Ph.D. graduated from University at Buffalo Medical School, he was the university’s first African American student to hold a doctorate and earn a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) d...

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Nicholas Fortson

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Nicholas K. Fortson was born in Buffalo, NY, March 10th, 1957. He attended Public Schools # 74 and # 81 and High School at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in Kenmore, New York. In 1979, Nicholas gra...

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Richard Allen Stenhouse

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Reverend Richard A. Stenhouse is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopla Church. A native of Buffalo, New York, he was educated in the Buffalo Public Schools, received a BA degree in Math...

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Reginal Spiller

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Jun 14, 2011 Biographies

Reginal Spiller is a seasoned businessman with 30 years of Oil and Gas experience. He has worked 10 years US domestically and 20 years internationally in exploration and production; on shore and off s...

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