Robert Rutherford “Colonel” McCormick was the Editor and Publisher of the Chicago Tribune. By the early 1920s, he was fascinated with radio and arranged a demonstration for his mother. Under his ...

Colonel(R) Richard Andrew Sperling was born in Elmhurst, Illinois on July 4 th, 1942. After graduating from Western Michigan University as a Distinguished Military Graduate with a Bachelor of Business ...

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NEW YORK — Colonel Abrams, an R&B singer who gained popularity with his dance club songs in the 1980s, has died. He was 67. The Colonel — his real name — was homeless before his death and struggled to ...

The 1918 Battle of Cantigny was the first combat that members of the American Expeditionary Forces saw in Europe; it was also their first victory. In the midst of the First Division fought Col. Robert ...

Colonel Alton R. Barnes, Sr. Montgomery - Colonel Alton R. Barnes, Sr., a longtime resident of Montgomery, Alabama and veteran of World War II, passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2019. He was born ...

The lifelong flight plan for Colonel Richard Mitchell began on August 25, 1916, in Del Rey, California, and ended peacefully on February 16, 2016, in his home in Tucson, Arizona. Colonel Mitchell was ...