Born / Died Place; Julian Edwin Cannonball Adderley Saxophonist, Teacher: Born: September 15, 1928: Tampa: Died: August 8, 1975: Gary, Ind. Cedric Donald C.D. Adkins Inventor: Born: September 7, 1913: Winter Haven: Died: June 3, 2000: Winter Haven: Wallace Amos Entrepreneur: Born: July 1, 1937: Tallahassee: Died: Charles Eugene Patrick Pat Boone Singer, Actor: Born: June 1, 1934
Alfred Dreyfus is the founder of ECPI University. ECPI was founded in 1966 in Norfolk, Virginia. They were among the first institutions in the region to offer classes in the growing field of computer programming.
Alfred P. Southwick Inventor of the electric chair Alfred P. Southwick was a Buffalo dentist whose experiments with electric current led to his creating the electric chair to be used in the execution of criminals. William Kemmler was executed on August 6, 1890 at Auburn NY prison for the murder of Matilda âTillieâ Ziegler. Kemmler was the first electrocution of a murderer conducted in America. Southwick is buried in section 31 of Forest Lawn.