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Type: NY State

Seymour Topping

(1921-2020) Journalist, author. Seymour Topping was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in White Plains, New York. He was an editor of The New York Times.

L. Arthur Larson

(1910-1993) Lawyer, author. L. Arthur Larson was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and died in Durham, North Carolina.

David K. Wyatt

(1937-2006) Historian, author. David K. Wyatt was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and died in Ithaca, New York. He was an authority on Thailand.

E. J. Rath

(1885-1922) Author. E. J. Rath was born in and died in Washington, District of Columbia. E. J. Rath was a pseudonym for Edith Rathbone Jacobs Brainerd and her husband, Chauncey Corey Brainerd, who collaborated on some of her writings.

John Felstiner

(1936-2017) Scholar, translator, writer, poet. John Felstiner was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died near Stanford, California.

Frank E. Gaebelein

(1899-1983) Author, editor, educator. Frank E. Gaebelein was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Rochester, Minnesota. He was general editor of the New Expositor’s Bible Commentary.

Ella Flagg Young

(1845-1918) Educator, author. Ella Flagg Young was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.

Brina Kessel

(1925-2016) Ornithologist, author. Brina Kessel was born in Ithaca, New York, and died in Fairbanks, Alaska.