Residents of the town can contact the town clerk for assistance with a variety of activities, from locating birth certificates to getting licenses for parades. In many towns, the town clerk keeps records on births, deaths, and marriages.
Love of computer technology. William H. Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. He was the second child and only son of William Henry Gates Jr., a successful Seattle attorney, and Mary Maxwell, a former schoolteacher. Kristi, his older sister, later became his tax accountant and Libby, his younger sister, lives in Seattle raising her two children. Gates enjoyed a normal, active childhood and participated in sports, joined the Cub Scouts, and spent summers with his family in Bremerton, Washington.
Bill Gates is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft. Under Gates` leadership, Microsoft`s mission has been to improve software and to make it easier for people to use computers. He and his wife founded The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which funds global health, education and public library projects. Independently produced for NPR by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman with John Gregory and Viki Merrick.