Malba Residents

Personalities of Malba

Many famous and influential people who have left their mark on society have called Malba home over the past decades. These are but a few that my investigation discovered:

Eugene Bay, Editor of Field & Stream Magazine
Willow Bay, TV personality
Arnold Bocksel, earliest prisoner of WW II, survived 3½ years & The Battan Death March
E. J. Bradbury of F.W. Woolworth Co.
Elton Britt, country and western singer was the original recording artist of the song There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (Through the efforts of The Elton Britt Fan Club, the Native NY Historical Society has made his residence
6-03 Parsons Blvd. the only official Landmark House in Malba)
George Brown, director of the Music League of America
Cavallacci Family, importers of fine marble
Mr. Oliver J. Champ, North Pole explorer
Hon. Philip J. Chetta, Supreme Court Justice
Joseph P. Davidson, Commissioner of Recreation for New York City
Mrs. Wm. Curtis, Demorest, Chairman of fund raising for the restoration of Theo.Roosevelt's home
Fred Fear, president of F. Fear Match Co.
F. M. Fillingam of California, district manager of the Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
Mr. Frankenheimer, movie director of "Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Oscar Graeve writer for the Saturday Evening Post
Hon. William Giaccio, NYS Supreme Court Justice
Dr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Hillman, well known pathologist of the NY Medical Chambers
General Frank T. Hines appointed by President Harding as Chief of Veterans' Bureau
William Truit Ingram, Chief Engineer & Health Officer for the U.S. Public Health Service
Howard Johnson, NY Mets Third Baseman
Dr. Kenneth Kupferberg, helped develop the atom bomb during WW II
Hon. Thomas LaFauci, judge
A 1939 World's Fair Painter Winner (who wants to remain anonymous)
George K. Morrow of the American Cotton Oil Co.
Professor Charles Moore of Columbia University discovered the atomic weight of phosphorus and designed the Charles Bridge
Gloria Okon, T.V. personality
Lester F. Orr, manager of Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
Ray Palmer, President of the NY & Queens Electric Light and Power Co.
John L. Procope - Chairman, E. G. Bowman Co. Inc., and former Publisher of the New York Amsterdam News
Ernesta G. Procope - President, E. G. Bowman Co. Inc. - Commercial Insurance Brokerage Firm
George Robb, founded a stock brokerage
William Shea of Shea Stadium fame
Hon. John Scileppi, Chief Justice of NY Court of Appeals
Leland L. Summers, awarded the Distinguished Service Medal
LeRoy Tallman, supervising engineer of "the vehicular tube to N.J." Lincoln Tunnel?
Mr. Wallender, Fire Commissioner
Dr. John B. Watson, wrote several noted psychology books
Ernest V. Wildfoerster of August Moll and Co. - importer

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