Sugar Ray Robinson in 1989. In 2006 he was featured on a commemorative stamp by the United States Postal Service. Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst. Robinson was the youngest of three children; his eldest sister Marie was born in 1917 and his other sister Evelyn was born in 1919. His father was a cotton, peanut, and corn farmer in Georgia, who moved the family to Detroit where he initially found work in construction. According to Robinson, Smith Sr. later worked two jobs to support his family—cement mixer and sewer worker. "He had
John Smith Walker the Queen, and she commented in her book "Hawaii's Story", that Walker's 1893 death within 4 months of the kingdom's overthrow was the result of, " ... the treatment he received from the hands of the revolutionists." John Smith Walker John Smith Walker (1826 – May 29, 1893) was Minister of Finance of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and ad interim Attorney General of the Kingdom of Hawaii, under King Kalākaua. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. As a teenager, he relocated to the United States. He tried his hand at various trades, including gold mining, eventually settling in California, where