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Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.
Wozniak's 1968 Homestead High School yearbook photo. Stephen Gary Wozniak was born on August 11, 1950, in San Jose, California. [5]: 18 [11] [12]: 13 [13]: 27 His mother, Margaret Louise Wozniak (née Kern) (1923–2014), was from Washington state, [14] and his father, Francis Jacob "Jerry" Wozniak (1925–1994) of Michigan, [5]: 18 was an engineer for the Lockheed Corporation.
Daniel Kottke (/ ˈ k ɒ t k i /) is an American businessman known for having been a college friend of Steve Jobs and one of the first employees of Apple Inc. He met Jobs at Reed College in 1972, and they trekked together through India for spiritual enlightenment and to the All One Farm.
Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is an American retired electronics industry business executive. He co-founded Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) as a partnership with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs on April 1, 1976, providing administrative oversight and documentation for the new venture.
The company offers its products online and has a chain of retail stores known as Apple Stores. Founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne created Apple Computer Co. on April 1, 1976, to market Wozniak's Apple I desktop computer, [2] and Jobs and Wozniak incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, [3] in Cupertino, California.
Roger Williams was born in London, and many historians cite 1603 as the probable year of his birth. [6] His birth records were destroyed when St. Sepulchre church burned during the Great Fire of London, [7] and his entry in American National Biography notes that Williams gave contradictory information about his age throughout his life. [8]
Newton Thornberry Bass (28 Oct 1903 [1] – 6 February 1983), was a prolific oil executive and a key figure in the growth of Apple Valley, California, United States.He and partner Bernard "Bud" Westlund owned Apple Valley Ranchos Land Development Co. Begun in 1946, the company was the beginning of the development that became the incorporated Town of Apple Valley, CA.
Interval Research Corporation: In 1992, Allen and David Liddle co-founded Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley–based laboratory and new business incubator that was dissolved in 2000 after generating over 300 patents, [52] four of which were the subject of Allen's August 2010 patent infringement lawsuit against AOL, Apple, eBay ...