Evelyn Barras Hollier was a seafood worker who lived in Biloxi, Mississippi. Evelyn was born on November 12, 1907 in Evangeline Parish,...

Born on February 20, 1904, George H. Bellais was a lifelong resident of Biloxi, Mississippi who lived out his life as an industry...

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...

Born in Ocean Springs Mississippi in 1930, Captain Clarence A. Hamilton Jr. was both an industry tradesman and a boat captain. He was...

Armindo Oliveria Soares, known as “Herman,” was a European immigrant who settled in Biloxi, Mississippi and establish both a trade and a...

Nicholas “Nick” Augustine Misko was a master shipbuilder from Biloxi, Mississippi. Like many Biloxi natives, Misko was of Slavic...

Born in Louisiana and arriving in Biloxi at the age of fifteen, Bernice Broussard Songe spent her entire working life devoted to the...

Harry L. Wheeler Sr. was an industry tradesman known for his carpentry skills from Biloxi, Mississippi. His parents were J. W. Wheeler, a...

Paul M. Skrmetti was an industry tradesman who is remembered for his patents for the floating trawl and floating trawling fish seine. He...

John “Tommy” Thomas Munro was a businessman and president of Munro Petroleum and Terminal from 1972 to 2009. Born in New Orleans,...

Joseph Rocco Misko Sr. was an industry tradesman and boat builder from Biloxi Mississippi. For much of his life, he resided on Wisteria...

Lucien “Blanc” Hollier was an industry tradesman and boat builder who made his career in Biloxi, Mississippi. He was known to be very...

William “Bill” Holland is a master boat builder from Biloxi, Mississippi. He is the son of Elvia Holland from Louisa, Louisiana, and...

Jules Jerome Galle Sr. was an industry tradesman who constructed boats throughout the Gulf Coast. Throughout his lifetime, the boats he...

A master boat builder like his father before him, Walter Celeste Fountain was a Biloxi native who constructed a number of vessels in his...

The son of a pioneer Biloxians and the heir to a legacy of boat building and fishing, Randolph Fountain Sr. was an industry tradesman and...

As the oldest son of a family of nine, Martin Fountain Jr. was first in line to follow his father’s example and work to become a master...

Augustus “Gussie” Fountain Sr. was a commercial fisherman and industry tradesman from Biloxi, Mississippi. He was the son of prominent...

The story of Robert “Bob” Francis Ederer and the R.F. Ederer Company is a story which dates back over one hundred years. The history of...

Mark R. Ederer is a businessman and current CEO of R.F. Ederer Company Inc., he is the son of company founder Robert “Bob” Ederer. Born...