March 3, 1918 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter of the American West, died. Brown was born February 22, 1841 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before he was 20, he moved to San Francisco, California where he established his own firm to produce illustrated bank notes, labels, maps, and stock certificates.
Archive | March 3, 2012
March 3rd in African American History – William Delouis Watson
March 3, 1973 William Delouis Watson, the first African American to win the United States decathlon championship, died. Watson was born December 18, 1916 in Boley, Oklahoma, but raised in Saginaw, Michigan.