Margaret “Maggie” Allen Ross
The matriarch of the vast Ross/Allen family was born in Alabama Port, Alabama to George Allen and Rosa Wescovich Allen. But her place in...
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George Ross
George Ross was born in Strasbourg, France to George and Emma Therese Holland Ross of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having immigrated to the...
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Steve Joseph Marinovich
Steve Marinovich was a fisherman and net maker from Biloxi, Mississippi. Within the incorporation of his business Marinovich Trawl Co. in...
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Lessaint "Blue" Broussard
Lessaint “Blue” Broussard was born Youngsville, Louisiana in 1898, and despite being the shortest in a family of tall men, he would one...
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Peter J. Pitalo
A lifetime resident of the Gulf Coast as well as a pillar of the value of hard work, Biloxi resident Peter J Pitalo is remembered for his...
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Steve “Gramps” Barhanovich
Remembered for his unrelenting work ethic and his rather unique nickname, Steve “Gramps” Barhanovich was an industry tradesman and boat...
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Lucy Comeaux Lemmler
Lucy Comeaux Lemmler was a factory workers and store owner from Biloxi Mississippi. Born in New Iberia, Louisiana on July 8, 1905, she...
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Margaret “Mishee” Misko Marinovich Guich
Margaret “Mishee” Misko Marinovich Guich was a seafood worker of Slavonian descent who made her life in Biloxi Mississippi in the early...
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Walter E. Ross, III
Walter Eley Ross, III was a boat owner and captain who called Biloxi home. Born on January 21, 1969, Walter was the son of Walter...
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Christopher Mark Ross
Christopher Mark Ross was a boat owner, captain, and commercial fisherman along the Gulf Coast. His ancestry on both sides of his family...
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Evelyn Barras Hollier
Evelyn Barras Hollier was a seafood worker who lived in Biloxi, Mississippi. Evelyn was born on November 12, 1907 in Evangeline Parish,...
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George H. "Gig" Bellais
Born on February 20, 1904, George H. Bellais was a lifelong resident of Biloxi, Mississippi who lived out his life as an industry...
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Velma Dujmov Misko
Velma Dujmov Misko was a seafood worker from Biloxi Mississippi. Born in 1922, Velma was a member of what many would come to call “the...
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Clarence A. Hamilton, Jr.
Born in Ocean Springs Mississippi in 1930, Captain Clarence A. Hamilton Jr. was both an industry tradesman and a boat captain. He was...
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Armindo Oliveria "Herman" Soares
Armindo Oliveria Soares, known as “Herman,” was a European immigrant who settled in Biloxi, Mississippi and establish both a trade and a...
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Nicholas Augustine Misko
Nicholas “Nick” Augustine Misko was a master shipbuilder from Biloxi, Mississippi. Like many Biloxi natives, Misko was of Slavic...
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Bernice Broussard Songe
Born in Louisiana and arriving in Biloxi at the age of fifteen, Bernice Broussard Songe spent her entire working life devoted to the...
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Harry L. Wheeler, Sr.
Harry L. Wheeler Sr. was an industry tradesman known for his carpentry skills from Biloxi, Mississippi. His parents were J. W. Wheeler, a...
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Paul M. Skrmetti
Paul M. Skrmetti was an industry tradesman who is remembered for his patents for the floating trawl and floating trawling fish seine. He...
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Tommy Munro
John “Tommy” Thomas Munro was a businessman and president of Munro Petroleum and Terminal from 1972 to 2009. Born in New Orleans,...
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